THE key to any successful holiday is in the planning. The same can be said for making a holiday destination a thriving hotspot.
Located in the Coolum Resort grounds of Australia’s controversial billionaire, Clive Palmer, Palmersaurus is home to 160 semi-moving, life-size dinosaurs. After a spate of negative reviews since its opening in 2013, Palmer and his park are now in a naming trademark feud with a disability pensioner
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But as it turns out, many tourist attractions weren’t thought out that well. Case in point: Revel Casino. After two years in business, the luxury resort and casino in Atlantic City just announced that it would be closing its doors forever in September.
And while this seems to be a big fail, it isn’t the worst travel flop on record.
Shockingly, there are lots of hotels, entertainment parks, and even beaches that have proved the saying “the devil is in the details.” We rounded up the worst travel flops ever.
Hope you didn’t bet on this baby becoming a winner. Only two years after opening its doors, Revel Casino will shut them for good this month. The $2.6 billion glass-covered casino sits on the north end of the Boardwalk.
The goal was for the luxury resort to help provide a much-needed boost to the declining gambling scene in Atlantic City. However, it never turned a profit. After declaring bankruptcy twice — the last time in June — the company finally decided to wind down the business. The last roll the dice will be September 10.
Wonderland Amusement Park, Beijing
Just 32 kilometres north of Central Beijing, off a busy highway, sits an abandoned amusement park known as “Wonderland.”
Set to be the largest amusement park in Asia, construction came screeching to a halt in 1998 when contractors couldn’t get past government red tape or come to terms with local farmers over property prices. Today, the eerie ruins resemble an apocalyptic city with no signs of life.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport
“Delay, delay, delay” is normally a tactic used by lawyers. But it seems that the contractors in charge of getting Berlin’s new airport up and running have adopted the saying.
The plan for Brandenburg is to replace both the Schonefeld and Berlin Tegel airports. And with more than 27 million annual passengers, it was projected to be the one of the busiest in Europe.
Originally slated to open in 2010, the project has been waylaid by poor construction and planning — not to mention corruption. Corrective work on the airport is going to take an estimated 18 months before construction can resume. Management has stated that it should be ready by 2015, but insiders hint that the date will be closer to 2019.
The New South China Mall, Guangdong Province, China
There is nothing creepier than an abandoned mall except one that’s only partially abandoned — like the New South China Mall.
Measuring over 4 million square metres, with 2,350 storeys. There is an outdoor plaza with palm trees, flanked by long canals and now-empty gondolas and giant replicas of the Arc de Triomphe and the Egyptian Sphinx.
But it is the inside that is super spooky. While most of the mall is a deserted, a smattering of stores continue to do business. Even the amusement park, with its 550 metres roller coaster and haunting musical rides, seems like an opening scene from a horror movie.
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