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Bintan Lagoon resort to shut for good

Post by abbby » Tue, 11 Aug 2020 4:03 pm

Bintan lagoon resort is closing its doors and 500 staff will be laid off.

They had been incurring losses for 2 years.

I remembered they used to be a popular destination for golfers, and when I visited few years back they had bus loads of Chinese tourists..
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Re: Bintan Lagoon resort to shut for good

Post by PNGMK » Tue, 11 Aug 2020 5:02 pm

Meh. I remember going there in the mid 90's. Nothing special.
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Re: Bintan Lagoon resort to shut for good

Post by abbby » Tue, 11 Aug 2020 6:42 pm

May be good news since the place is rather run down, new operator could come in and do an overhaul to the place. Yup, nothing special and my experience when I was there was the resort's restaurants were all full house and they decline us having our meals cos of the Chinese tourists. I had to wait an hour for them to finish up before I could be seated.
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Re: Bintan Lagoon resort to shut for good

Post by Max Headroom » Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:05 pm

It's been a zombie for some time. Companies that can't make it, go under, leaving a niche for green shoots to poke through and ultimately flourish.

That is to say, in the real world at least.

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