Ghost Hotels
I was going to write something about the sale of Budweiser and the ripple affects it will have in various business enterprises around the country, but then this story got my eye.
North Korea's "Hotel of Doom" wakes from its coma
I have always been a big fan of ghost hotels. Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" was one of the finest movies ever made, in my opinion. It certainly defined Jack Nicholson as "Jack" for most people.
I also used to drive by an uncompleted, abandoned Holiday Inn which had walls and door but no windows every day for five years on my commute to work.
So I am a sucker for "Ghost Hotel" stories.
This one, from North Korea is creepy because it involves them spending billions of dollars on a hotel that never opened, that is considered ugly as hell by most people who have seen it, and that may not even be safe to stay in when it is done.
Hello North Korea, you may have more important shit to be worrying about than this!
You just blew up a perfectly good nuclear reactor tower. Maybe you could have put a hotel there? Or maybe it didn't work either? Who knows??
According to Reuters, North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world's most reclusive and destitute countries.
According to foreign residents in Pyongyang, Egypt's Orascom group has recently begun refurbishing the top floors of the three-sided pyramid-shaped hotel whose 330-metre (1,083 ft) frame dominates the Pyongyang skyline.
The firm has put glass panels into the concrete shell, installed telecommunications antennas -- even though the North forbids its citizens to own mobile phones -- and put up an artist's impression of what it will look like.
The hotel consists of three wings rising at 75 degree angles capped by several floors arranged in rings supposed to hold five revolving restaurants and an observation deck.
A creaky building crane has for years sat unused at the top of the 3,000-room hotel in a city where tourists are only occasionally allowed to visit.
It would cost up to $2 billion to finish the Ryugyong Hotel and make it safe, according to estimates in South Korean media. That is equivalent to about 10 percent of the North's annual economic output. UR Doing it Wrong! Use the money to feed your citizens
North Korea's "Hotel of Doom" wakes from its coma
I have always been a big fan of ghost hotels. Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" was one of the finest movies ever made, in my opinion. It certainly defined Jack Nicholson as "Jack" for most people.
I also used to drive by an uncompleted, abandoned Holiday Inn which had walls and door but no windows every day for five years on my commute to work.
So I am a sucker for "Ghost Hotel" stories.
This one, from North Korea is creepy because it involves them spending billions of dollars on a hotel that never opened, that is considered ugly as hell by most people who have seen it, and that may not even be safe to stay in when it is done.
Hello North Korea, you may have more important shit to be worrying about than this!
You just blew up a perfectly good nuclear reactor tower. Maybe you could have put a hotel there? Or maybe it didn't work either? Who knows??
According to Reuters, North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world's most reclusive and destitute countries.
According to foreign residents in Pyongyang, Egypt's Orascom group has recently begun refurbishing the top floors of the three-sided pyramid-shaped hotel whose 330-metre (1,083 ft) frame dominates the Pyongyang skyline.
The firm has put glass panels into the concrete shell, installed telecommunications antennas -- even though the North forbids its citizens to own mobile phones -- and put up an artist's impression of what it will look like.
The hotel consists of three wings rising at 75 degree angles capped by several floors arranged in rings supposed to hold five revolving restaurants and an observation deck.
A creaky building crane has for years sat unused at the top of the 3,000-room hotel in a city where tourists are only occasionally allowed to visit.
It would cost up to $2 billion to finish the Ryugyong Hotel and make it safe, according to estimates in South Korean media. That is equivalent to about 10 percent of the North's annual economic output. UR Doing it Wrong! Use the money to feed your citizens
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