lmao

They were there to put their towels down before everyone else showed up ;)

@@joshdavis1637 I'm German and your comment is brilliant!

A German is always conquering, never tired. Up, up, he goes! Up zere on ze roof, Hilda!

This is true Lol

@Shigaru Hömma, mir sind für teuer Geld herjeflogen, jetzt nutze mir das auch und sinn net nur die janze Zeit am Pool. :D

I like germans

@@terrandroid But germans don't like you. :Pp

Germans are friendly af in my experience, I love German and learning the language Just wish they didn't have to be naked at literally every beach

@@ls200076 oh yes they do, you don't know nothing about that

Yes! Finally the man gets the recognition he deserves

xCPTxNEMO i am a Hobby Pointer myself, and I can tell by the pointing he does, he’s a proper professional pointer.

Quite the quality I expect

Well good thing it wasn't built in a circular design. He would've been pointing for days!! "For some reason that air duct looks familiar" 🤔

He looks like he's showing the place to a potential renter

Take nothing but diseases, leave nothing but your soul. xD

Wear a hardhat and a respirator.

...or did he? Hey, VSauce, Michael here.

Cheers for the update!

I thought exactly the same as the film progresses. Ideal for a Bond badie base...

@@captain_barnacles I was just thinking its exotic location and striking architecture would have made it a good backdrop as Bond's investigations and intrigues played out. Probably Moore's bond.

@@matthewneleigh567 there's not been enough epic bases recently. Have volcano > make it a base. Simple really

It IS very 70's, the sort of place to meet Goldfinger or Scaramanga.

Not Açores, but Bond was in Portugal. Estoril. He gets married...

Callie Masters yup

Bald and Bankrupt?

Austin Joseph he’s my dad

Aww come on, radiation makes all the fun!

radiation give the opportunity for night tours, when the building has a gentle glow and ambient light without any electricity.

@der Führer Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain.

"I've seen worse views"

Thats how the Brits are, I live in England. It's actually a form of understated arrogance, they are raised to act like some kind of smart ass Marquis from the XIX century. I hate them.

@@medler2110 that's what happened here half a century ago, the Brits underestimate the Malayan Communist Party they almost lost, lucky PM at that time W.Churchill realize the situation and conscripted soldiers from Commonwealth nation's, otherwise we became another Communist state in S.E.A..

EduSanjuan777 tit

Well its right next to one of the most popular view points on the island so the hotel is quite popular as well :D

Which, ironically, only means something to Brits, who won't be able to afford it in 2021 due to Brexit (its a joke, please don't start a political debate here based on that)

Oi! From Reading

I was many years ago in Swindon. I asked a worker in the bus station how I could get to Reading. He claimed Reading didn’t exist.

@@DisleyDavid to be honest I've got no idea if there is a bus that goes to Reading maybe we don't need exist

Fair point!

The best in the world

Actually only for 20 (between 1990 and 2010). Then when the funds that paid his salary ran out, he apparently decided not to bother guarding the place for free.

@@troodon1096 So technically he's still the guard there?

A 20 year scarecrow gig with all those Perks!?! Hell Yeah!! I'll do it!! 😃👍

Sounds like a plot of the Shining.

Id smoke a good cigar with the beer. Alone, just the sounds of nature.

Yea it doesn't take much to make the American think you are clever😂

@@jyrkimaansiirrotoy1836 And yet I still think that you are not.

@@seatedliberty It's okay to be confused. Many of you are.

Not confused, but rather bemused- by the unjustifiable arrogance of a European who knows nothing of America yet feels qualified to judge it.

@@seatedliberty Imagine using the word bemused

You're describing the Canary Islands--which I've visited--but not overrun by tourists and exceptionally rainy and green. The landscapes on the Canaries are some of the most stunning I have seen anywhere in the world, especially in Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Exactly as you described. The Canary Islands, however, get far less precipitation, thus are far sunnier, and the climate is much hotter, which helps with attracting snowbirds from all over Europe during the long winters. The Azores have, unfortunately, the same gloomy climate as the British Isles. Hence why they're still off the beaten path and relatively untouched despite the gorgeous landscapes--most tourists try to get away from British Isles weather, not go toward it, especially in the winter. Tourists also have a sun-filled, dry, beach-ringed alternative to the Azores--the Canary Islands. They go there instead.

Yeah - we realised that afterwards!

@@TheTimTraveller Could have been used as the world's most unsavoury footbath had it been. Great videos by the way. I came across your channel yesterday and have been going through quite a few already.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a tourist booth outside selling spraypaint, grapling hooks and crowbars XD

Cheers for the comment, I just googled "panorama hotel niteroi" and it looks amazing! I'm adding that to my list of places to visit if I ever make it over to Brazil :) Is it easy to explore the hotel, or is it guarded / fenced off?

@@TheTimTraveller As far as I know it has been completely abandoned for over 30 years now, and judging by the number of people who go there, it's not fenced off, or at least not that well. But honestly, I have no idea. The closest I've ever gotten to it was going up to the aforementioned park nearby.

@@tiagoprado7001 ok, thank you :) If I ever get the chance to come over there, I will investigate further...

As a Nottinghamshire based worker of a partner research council with the same unified HR department you're damn right about Swindon. At least the modern bit.

I've only ever been through it on coaches/trains and it struck me as... a place.

It's one of the great mysteries of our time Koen! But thank you, and if you get the chance, please do share it with your friends / social media / reddit / dumpert / the neighbour's dog, and hopefully one day the world will wake up :)

@@TheTimTraveller well, that escalated quickly ;)

@@98d31 Koen's got a lot of friends, it turns out :D

I didn't either until about a month ago! And then I stumbled across an article about the hotel online, saw a photo of the view, and basically booked flights immediately :D

The Tim Traveller that’s the best way to travel, gg

I visited Sao Miguel in 2019. Never got to see the hotel, but I certainly saw no shortage of abandoned houses in the towns just east of Ponta Delgada, several of which I'd love to buy, do up and live in if I had the money (and somehow got a job over there).

Oh interesting - good spot! I just googled John Portman and looking at those atriums I see exactly what you mean. The Azores are one of the closest bits of Europe to the US, geographically, so perhaps that was a deliberate choice to try to appeal to the American tourist.

The main reason this hotel closed is because of constant foggy weather and ofc rain, reason never gain attraction to tourists. Idk if it's still good ideia someone buy this place and reopen it. Now Azores has much more affluence of tourists than it had 20 years ago.

Yup! I think it was bought by a Chinese real estate developer. They supposedly want to reopen it in 2021. It really doesn't look like any work has started yet though, and it's already 2019! I'm guessing Tim wants to see the inside before it gets refurbished and he can't afford it anymore. If anyone wants to visit the Monte Palace, you'd probably want to catch a flight (www.azoresairlines.pt) to Ponta Delgada, the main city on the island. Once you're there, the best way to get there is to hire a car and ideally get a friendly bloke called Andrew to drive you. :)

@@veryboringname. : Well, it seems to be reasonably, structurally, sound so it could be a viable option. Given the tourist it seems to be getting as a wreck, why the heck, would it not be profitable as a proper, renovated, hotel?! Right? My Best. Out.

@@veryboringname. "It really doesn't look like any work has started yet though, and it's already 2019!" Well, the amount of redtape needed to even get the permits necessary to start renovations will be baffling to just about anyone, and possibly need a year or more of thumb twiddling. If they manage to start construction next year, they'll be lucky. Of course, then there's the "slight" issue of managing to find enough workers to actually build the thing (no small feat even in the continent, every reputable contractor I've talked to in months keeps telling me finding people even remotely decent is extremely rare, and most of those who can actually do decent work either request absurd amounts of money, or just decide "meh, can't be bothered, I have enough for this months' expenses" and no-show after a while), so who really knows when that thing will be finished... Which is a damned shame, really.

The view from the roof is great don't get me wrong, but no way in hell I'm paying for 5-star accommodation in the WOODS when I can get that where I am for free and only an hour's drive out of town. All I'd need is a sleeping bag on the back of my motorcycle and a couple of day's worth of food and drinks. Sure it's not 5-star experience but if I wanted that, I'd want a white sand beach and a crystal clear ocean to go with it for that amount of money.

And then covid happened...

"confident at the start but VERY quickly growing meek and trailing off"

@@TheTimTraveller holy cow, I did not realise you were down in the triple digits (!) as recently as two years ago?! I thought when you made this video you must have already gone full time. Amazing.

It definitely does!

Why do you spell generic like Star Wars?

Haha, thank you, and well spotted! I've put a few little Easter eggs in my videos for British TV viewers to find :)

@@TheTimTraveller I seem to be reading this comment on a rather appropriate day then.

But the guard's payment ended around 1990, before internet was as widespread as today

@@IronShocker77 10:20 2010. pretty sure the internet existed then. if not airbnb then craigslist or something...

You're right, bro.

Yeah, loved that too.

If you can't convince the cops the white stuff in your pocket is just powdered sugar from last night's doughnuts, confuse them so they think you work in a bakery.

I'm gonna have a t-shirt made with that line on it. It's so appropriate for the US these days. 😆

hell yes! we used to play in an abandoned factory, which was amazing already, but with the added verticality this would be an awesome arena

There's a ton of verticality in those open lift shafts, that's for sure!

TonyTheYouTuba they get vertical very very fast too

No

With the lethal drops still there, great idea. 11/10 would watch.

Steve Brandon that’s a good question. I’m wondering if one of the Pacific islands has a single McDonald’s and Australia or Fiji are the nearest. Curious if Marshall Islands or Guam have a single store (no research just a hunch)

@@k.jamescarters9557 The Pacific seems like the most obvious place however a cursorary Google Maps search (done by searching for "McDonald's" where it shows your default area and then zooming out, moving to the Pacific, and finally clicking "Search this Area") reveals that small island nations or territories in the Pacific either seem to have zero McDonald's or at least two. The loneliest McDonald's I could find that is a legitimate McDonald's and not just a third world restaurant that calls itself "McDonald's" with no connection to the McDonald's Corporation is the single location in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, a town surrounded by outback in every direction for hundreds of kilometres. Another city I thought was a contender was Novosibirisk in southern Siberia, Russia but they seem to have several compared to just the one I could find listed whenever it was the last time I checked. **EDIT:** I just confirmed that Google Maps isn't a perfect measure either. Google Maps only shows a single McDonald's in all of New Caledonia, which would seem to be even more distant from any other McDonald's than even the Alice Springs location. (The next closest McDonald's location Google Maps shows is in Fiji, ~1254km/~773 miles away.) But I checked the official website for McDonald's in New Caledonia (just McDonalds with a dot nc) and it says there are four locations within New Caledonia so the Alice Springs location still seems to be the most remote.

And you're seriously going to Azores to eat at McDonald's?.....

@@rafaelpardal6306 I wouldn't go to the Azores just to eat at McDonald's but I'm interested in knowing what the McDonald's location most distant from any other is (currently, as far as I know, it's probably the one Alice Springs, Australia, but I haven't checked in a year).

@@SteveBrandon oh😂

It probably has a better chance now, with more tourists coming to the Azores. It's an amazing view, that's for sure. If they ever renovate this place... well I'm sure I'm not staying there as I certainly can't afford it, but maybe I could eat at the restaurant if that gave me a legitimate excuse to see the view from an observation area or something.

Or, you know, used software one, seriously, that was pretty much zero effort video...

@@KuK137 He actually went there to film = No effort

I used to have stabilizers on my bicycle back in the 70’s

Thank you! I'll try to keep it that way...