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Originally Posted by mark manley
He had visited some of the finished developments and spoken to staff and found out occupancy rates were only a few percent instead of the 50% plus promised, but developers, local councillors and planning officials had all got their cut while investors got no return on their minimum $500,000 investment. This was just one man's opinion but there may be some truth in it.
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Funny you should say that, we questioned how the touristy places we did stay in, could justify the staff and overheads etc. when not many customers were at breakfast, we thought perhaps we had been up late, at 7am? There is obviously a lot of money being poured in from somewhere. We also tried one of the new plush looking restaurants one night, which had a massive menu in hope of something other than rice, noodle, chicken & beef. Sadly of the 50 or so dishes offered only 4 things were possible that night. Rice, noodle, chicken or beef !
The area of Halong is particularly heavily developed and expanding by the day, even someone visiting a year ago would see major changes if they were to return. Even new sandy beach areas were appearing overnight complete with 30ft palm trees, 1000's of empty shop units ready for people to move in, amusement parks with rides, roller coasters, swimming pools all immaculate with flashing lights and music - but not open.
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Regards Tim
Learning my craft for the big stuff, it won't be long now and it's not that far anyway
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