laatste update: 04-2021
In 1990, the brand new Monte Palace Hotel won an award for Best Hotel Of The Year. Within a few months, it closed down and never reopened. What happened? I went to explore the story behind one of the world’s most extraordinary abandoned buildings…
THIS VIDEO IS HUGELY INDEBTED TO THE FOLLOWING
This beautifully-written blog about the history of the hotel:
Jorge Loures’ superb 2011 YouTube documentary about the hotel – this is where I got all the old photos and news clippings from:
The spectacular drone shots are from this video by Irmãos Brother:
And finally thanks to Atlas Obscura, the website where I found out about the hotel in the first place!
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The hotel is doomed. There is nothing interesting in the area to justify a hotel of any sort.
Make no mistake, someone somehow made gobs of money from this joke.
Now it's in ruins!
THAT is a view.
ive been there 2 times :)))
Basil Fawlty would be proud that you'd used his music! Greetings from NYC!
I loved Saõ Miguel. The volcano lakes are beautiful.
Excellent pointing!
Only 88 rooms, seems like they would have to be full all of the time to break even.
Tim is maybe not the most handsome boyo but Tim produces a lot of cute content <3
edit: Thank you so much self-employed Tim 🙂
hey man. love it. this inspired me to make my own abandoned building video, can i ask if the spooky music you used is copyright/royalty free?
Breaking in to a private building that is full of signs and walls around so people dont break in. Literaly a crime recorded xD
Hahaha Fawlty Towers theme music!
You went all the way to Portugal to film an abandoned hotel and you have a cell phone for lighting? Really???
I too am familiar with the lofty heights of the Reading hexagon roof, the sweeping canyon that is Broad Street and the majestic mass of the Oracle, it is indeed like the Azores but better.
I really like your humor 😀
hey what do you mean with wonky german? LOL
It was really a waste of time and money to build this hotel. Pretty sad :/
Bought from a chinese… do you know about the problem rich chinese people have in china? Even if they are abroad they can go missing and I mean it in a sense of disposal. I like the chinese food and old culture, but not how politics are going so wild that there are manhunts in other countries. If nothing happened until today. This could mean it OR the chinese person wanted to get rid of his money before that person gets too much attraction from his government. Look it up. It's scary and crazy what is going on in the world. If some of the chinese government sees this comment I love you and would appreciate it, if you keep those kind of business in your country. Please and thanks. Just so you know I love my life and doesn't want ruin possible business opportunities, because china is one of the human power houses out there in the world.
Good pointer
Should never have been built in the first place.
Both of them. These beautiful wild places don't have to be destroyed like that. No respect for Nature at all.
Careful with this place, i'm from Portugal and from what i know, sometimes the military go do training missions there.
From the air the place reminds me of a ww2 bunker or something similar. Ps, it's 2021 now- I bet the Chinese haven't moved in!
So why is he pointing at everything? I missed it
I've watched this video a few times and "ooooh, where the STAIRS are" never fails to make me laugh. Really one of my favorite things.
Main job: professional pointer, obviously. Second job: teacher, I guess? I mean, you do have to point a lot in class…
I LOVE YOU THIS VID MADE MY DAY YOU ARE HILARIOUS ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Two adverts ninety seconds in not good
Build it and they will come so they did but they didn’t
you never have to ask how much asbestos an older building like that has. its always plenty for everyone.
Well that didnt go well, COVID came and probs nothing was started
8:10 It’s in case the bathtub overflows before the last guy is done, so that he can turn around doing a sweet 180 and finish emptying his bladder in the urinal in case the guy in the tub already has a mouthful at the time ;).
This was a special place. My buttocks still clenches upon hearing the name ! I was young back then, it was before my second sex change, still firm yet malleable !