Although there was hope that the floating hotel, a centerpiece of the Mount Kumgang resort area, might be able to have another life, that proved not to be the case.
For the world's first floating hotel, that's the last stop in a bizarre 10,000-mile journey that began over 30 years ago with glamorous helicopter rides and fine dining, but ended with a tragedy.
"He had much love and appreciation for the Great Barrier Reef," says Robert de Jong, a curator at the "It's a horseshoe-shaped reef, with quiet waters in the center, so ideal for a floating hotel," says de Jong. The novelty of it all generated quite a buzz at first, and the hotel was a dream for divers. Even non-divers could enjoy incredible views of the reef, thanks to a special submersible called The Yellow Submarine."If the weather was rough and you had to go back to town to catch a plane, the helicopter couldn't fly and the catamaran couldn't sail, so that caused a lot of inconveniences," says de Jong.
"It disappeared really quietly," says de Jong,"And it was sold to a company in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, which was looking to attract tourists."After failure off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef, it spent a year in Vietnam, then moved to North Korea.In 1989 the floating hotel embarked on its second journey, this time 3,400 miles northward.
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