Strange abandoned "Euro village" in Phu Quoc, Vietman
This place is something that I had heard about from other people that have been here before and the way they described it doesn't do justice to just how ominous and a bit sad that it is. Apparently, pre-Covid some developers had a idea for an absolutely massive tourist attraction that was meant to be wildly popular with dozens of hotels thousands of rental properties and tons and tons of shops, restaurants, and bars in a massive area right next to the sea.
I don't know exactly what happened for it to completely fall flat but when you go to the area now it is indeed kept very clean, but almost none of the buildings are occupied and it just seems eerily quiet.
I probably could look up what the official name of this place is but if you go to the island you are almost certainly going to be offered a trip to Sun World and really, you should do so if you get a chance. On your way to the Sun World cable car, you will pass through this empty and European looking "city."
While I didn't actually wander all the way through the entire village, and it is huge, the main roads had almost exclusively "for rent" signs up in the windows and if you look at the 2nd floors of these hundreds of buildings you will notice that with rare exceptions, the upper floors of the buildings are completely unfinished. They didn't even bother turning any of these structures into habitable environments because the people simply aren't coming.
It seems as though they had grand plans for this place to just be hoppin with people all over the place but it is just completely deserted. The few coffee shops that were open are no doubt struggling to make any money at all because as it is now it appears as though all of the people that come this way simply drive past it all on their way to the cable car to Sun World.
It's tragic but I read something about how this island has been undergoing extremely rapid development to the tune of something crazy like $20 billion. It seems as thought they just assumed that if "you build it, they will come" and that simply hasn't been the case at all.
Every direction that you look there is just nothing. Some of the shopfronts have got decals indicating what a "deli or fruit market" or something like that could be like but there is nothing inside at all. I don't know what they could possibly do to get people to take over these places but as it is now there is just row upon row upon row of nothing all around.
It's actually pretty cool because there is a very good chance that the only people that are suffering because of this rather extravagant and unsuccessful development is large investment firms that kind of exploit the common man anyway. So eff em!
I don't plan on coming back to this island but if I do I can't really imagine this place changing. It's just so friggin big that nobody is going to take a chance on putting something here. Now just imagine if you got duped into staying here only to find out that your resort or hotel is near absolutely nothing other than closed shops?
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Very cool "nothingness" for this place. I'm guessing, all it takes is 1 James Bond movie in this place, could probably change the faith? I don't know, I'm just saying. I would have start a souvenir shop selling stuffed doll James Bond and charge anyone trying to visit my James Bond museum?
That actually could work. That exact thing did wonders for an otherwise rather featureless island near where I lived in Thailand. Prior to the film (which happened before I was born) apparently basically no one ever went there, to this day it is inundated with tourists every single day. Of course it is significantly smaller than Phu Quoc
Very beautiful place.
Yooo, even the very thought if this is very creepy. Imagine even buying a home there, only to move with your family and be the only ones in the entire island.
I wonder how this very costly mistake could have happened. And to think of the huge amount of money put into this investment, only to see it flop just like that.
But then again, what about the Sun world. Do a lot of tourists go there?
Sun World appears to be the ONLY reason anyone goes there but I think they massively over-estimated the amount of people that would be interested in seeing that.
Just like anything else, the official word blames the lack of interest on Covid, but to me it seems like it was just too much, too fast as is often the case in South East Asia.
You don't say. These kinds of things happen often in South East Asia? That ought be a pain.
well i don't want to speak for everyone's government but just about anywhere I have ever been when something looked like it was going to be even a little bit popular it would end up overdeveloped very quickly until it was basically ruined... this goes for any industry as well. If it is determined that a part of town can support a couple of coffee shops or a massage shop you can bet your bottom dollar that the masses are going to put so many of these things in that area that none of them can survive any longer.
That's crazy. I find it sad because it has so much potential and it is just sitting there going to waste. Like you said though, it probably hurts the big wigs, so that isn't a bad thing. I bet it would be so creepy to walk through all that emptiness.
friends of mine that are more adventurous than I am and rented scooters went all up and down all the roads only to see that there is maybe a dozen functioning shops in the 3 to 4 hundred that are available. That massive hotel in the middle that I have in one of my pictures apparently isn't even open.
Who is going to rent one of these things knowing that nobody is going to come and there is no foot-traffic to speak of? I think the only way they could turn this around is if the owners offer massive incentives to prospective business owners and all of them at the same time.
I found myself being reminded how a sleepy little town of 40,000 people or so that I went to high school in was super excited about a relatively huge Outlet Village shopping mall that they built near the interstate. At first every shop was full but as time went by more and more of them dropped out until only about 1/4 of the entire place had anything in it. I recall going there one year at Christmas and saw what is probably the only Santa in a mall anywhere in USA that had nobody lining up to sit on his lap for a picture. After years of losing tons of money the owners finally closed it entirely. It was sad to see but I think whoever did their probability analysis was a dope to think that a city that small with zero tourism would be able to pull in large numbers of tourists to a shitty outdoors outlet mall that is freezing cold 1/4 of the year.
We have an outlet mall down the road in Birch Run and one up the road in West Branch. They aren't anywhere near as busy as they used to be back in the day. I think that is everywhere across the board. The indoor malls they started converting to outdoor malls, but like you said, in Michigan, that doesn't make a ton of sense. Maybe if they held a festival in that place it might bring people in initially and make them realize how cool it is. Of course the businesses aren't there to support the people. It kind of feels like a catch 22 at this point.
Surely there must be a bargain to be had here if they cannot rent the apartments and will have to start selling hem off. I have known about abandoned cities and developments in China and Spain but this is on a smaller scale. Surely they did their research or you would like to think they did because this is utter madness.
yeah, tell me about it dude. It makes zero sense when you see it especially considering that it is miles and miles away from anything else. The island has a lot of tourism and even an international airport but they built this thing so far away from all of that as to make it impossible for any sort of accidental foot traffic.
I was wondering if it was so badly thought out is there not am alterative motive like tax write offs or buying favors with government officials. There has to be another angle on this.
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