The preview you saw below is outside this abandoned hotel. I don’t know the full story, but apparently someone thought it would be a grand idea to build a hotel right next to the castle. Great vistas, world heritage site, island paradise – what’s the problem? OH, there are hundreds of graves and tombs surrounding the castle.
Que the creepy music. This is exactly how 90% of cheap, B movie horrors start. An abandoned hotel at a exotic locale with restless souls. Of course, the minute I found out the sign was merely a suggestion, I bounded on in. This place is fascinating. Shattered glass and torn carpet, dismantled beds, half constructed rooms. The story is that construction was continually plagued with problems, both accidents and financial. Eventually, the project was abandoned.
The site is obviously the squatting grounds of gangs, hooligans, and hobos. But, beyond this, the layout is simply bizarre. It seems like it was constructed to be a grand hotel, but you can’t really figure out what the architect and designers were thinking. Carpet was laid, cooking implements [refrigerators, hoods, etc] and other hotel components were brought in and just left. The entire hotel is like an abandoned MC Escher dream. You can even get up onto the roof easily and survey the entire site.
While we were exploring, we did run into a few other people also checking out the ruins. Beyond that, though, the only permanent residents seem to be these freakishly large black spiders. And by large, I mean like the size of your head. There are tombs really close to the hotel, occasionally even jutted up against construction [picture one below]. The entire ground has a surreal and creepy feeling. Pics of graffiti to follow, but for now the grounds:
