Unbelievable ABANDONED Four Seasons Luxury Beach Resort
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- On the calm, crystal blue shores of Barbados, sits a little known failed development, flagged by the largest and most prestigious name in luxury hotels, The Four Seasons. From its halting of construction in 2008, this massive ultra luxury resort and residence was going to define the game of luxury in the Southern Caribbean. Celebrities such as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Simon Cowell had purchased units here, with villas priced at $18 million. However, since 2008, the workers never returned to the property and for over 15 years, the site has sat completely abandoned. Join me as I find out what's left of this truly unprecedented site, and discover the untold story of this $300 million, failed hotel.
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Chapters:
Opening - 0:00
1950's/Burned - 1:42
Project Beginnings - 3:46
The Hotel/Recession - 7:15
Workers Camp/Failed Restarts - 10:47
Villa Number 1 - 15:51
Final Thoughts - 20:33
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Presented in 4K - Zábava
The thing I love so much about these videos is that unlike so many others who explore abandoned places, you don't just walk around with a camera going "Oh wow, look at this. That's so crazy." You intercut it with a look into the history of the place, whether it's a former 5 star resort, or an abandoned motel on the side of the road.
Same!!
You can really tell that the construction was done properly, with quality materials. Even the workers quarters had the sink area tiled. After so many years, the abandoned buildings did not have any pooling of water bodies, sunken floors, cracked walls etc. It's a shame it ultimately ended up in this state
Cinderblock is a common quality material
As someone who lives in the Caribbean, projects like this one are infuriating since they're massive wastes of money, resources & land.
As a Barbadian every time I go to Paradise beach and see that eyesore it breaks my heart. I've also always wondered what inside the structure looked like, so thanks for this.
What a mess. :( It's too bad they couldn't have cleaned it up, for locals to do something with. Or something?
It needs to be flattened, cleaned out and left to the people of Barbados as public land for public use.
@@MolloyPolloy People had their chance and ruined it. I say they clean it out, then give the land back to the crab and monkeys.
What a tragic waste of beautiful land. The contractors who created this should have to clean it up?😢
Sad to see so much waste, especially the beach. You would think they would bulldoze those buildings so maybe something else could be built there
I like how you get further and further from the US and Canada in search of specimens. When you’re age sixty you’ll have to explore abandoned things in Antarctica ✊
As long as they have an abandoned four seasons
@@BrightSunFilms Pretty sure Antarctica only has two seasons, cold and insanely cold. There are a number of abandoned settlements on the islands surrounding Antarctica, most notably South Georgia, which has several. Apparently it's accessible enough to have an operating museum in the summer months.
CHOCOLATE RAIN!!!
@@BrightSunFilms please don't forget to mention the environmental impact and habitat loss associated with all the wasted materials.
@@nonna_sof5889Actually, Antarctica's seasons are sunny and cold, and dark and brutally cold with gale force winds.
It comes up a lot on this channel but I feel like it’s so hard to understand how devastating 2008 really was around the world for younger people.
They will find out soon my guess is later this year. History always repeats itself.
Yeah, it honestly didn’t really occur to me since I wasn’t even old enough to know what anything was
I was mid 20s then. Great time for. Grabbed a house from foreclosure for cheap. Sold it for 4 times more 5 years later. Paid cash for the house I have now. This house appraises now for 3 times i paid for it. I’m not rich by any stretch but if you have a decent paying job you can boost yourself off the less financially secure.
@@Chocolate_dragon how did you even do that? You must’ve had a lot of money
@@Azurethewolf168simple, he made it all up
Incredible that something of this scale and value, was just abandoned, and by such a large company. Thanks for exploring this one for us Jake!
Glad you enjoyed it
@@BrightSunFilms
😲 Super🦸♀️ surprising 😯.
What a famous discovery, like never before
That was the 2008 GFC for you...
@@BrightSunFilms It's amazing that Four Season's still has their name etched in the main sign, usually that kind of thing gets knocked down or chiseled off. Expensive brand names like that do not like bad publicity, which kind of goes without saying, but there it still is.
Bird watchers sued to have an inviron mental impact report completed 😮😢
Its kinda depressing how people work on projects so much just to abandon them, crazy to think its been abandoned for 15 years
What are the criminals doing today breaking and entering, trespassing as usual
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
😲 Super🦸♀️ surprising 😯.
What a shocking discovery, like never before
It’s all about timing….2008/2009 ouch 😢
@@34SkylineSedan
😯 Whoa. That's gonna leave a mark
Think about what people build that gets destroyed as well, like the World Trade Center a civil engineering marvel worth billions destroyed in just one day in a couple hours.
Bright Sun Films documentaries are Must-See TV. Well Done.
Thank you so much!
Agreed
It’s beautiful how quickly nature can take back over
A lot of healing has to do. That proyect made a lot of damage...
@@DavidAbyssali don't think nature really cares.
...especially in Barbados
Nature's old, it waits you out
In the southeast US, with kudzu, honeysuckle, wisteria, and poison ivy, just a year or two in an abandoned state can look like a jungle grew over it
“Opening in 2009” 10 seconds in was all I needed to hear 😐
I really appreciate how you do not fill the silence. You limit the use of background music and you space the narration out. That really allows the silence and ambient noise to sink into the viewer and envelop them in the melancholy of the structure. Thank you for your hard work. Loved the video.
This is what I love too. Other channels would fill that silence with stupid spooky music and sfx, but for me it's the silence that speaks volumes.
From the moment I heard "completion expected in 2009", I knew this would be a victim of the recession. 2008/2009 and 2020/2021 were the worst years for construction projects in the 21st century.
I worked for the Four Seasons Beverly Hills for almost 21 years - wasn’t aware of this. Four Seasons Residences are the only thing Four Seasons actually owns - other than that, they’re just a management company for privately owned hotels.
Yup, correct. The Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia is actually owned by Comcast, who licenses the name from The Four Seasons.
So essentially, Four Seasons franchises out its name like Starbucks, McDonalds, or 7/11. How the mighty have fallen. 🤔
@@njwebwiz Four Seasons DC was owned by Gerard Louis-Dreyfus (father of Julia Louis-Dreyfus). The one I worked for was owned by two brothers.
When I hear “Four Seasons” and “Cunard,” I think that I’m going to see something beautiful and amazing! It’s hard to believe that two such massive and well known companies also have projects that suffered like this! So sad!
The sheer amount of such high end materials going to waste is heartbreaking. That is some of the costliest material on earth, factoring in the extra import and crafting costs. I hope one day the people can get together and rebuild places like this. Rebuild and repurpose to provide more housing to replace all that was lost since 2008.
My ancestors came to America on the Mauritania (Cunard Ship). My grandparents went to the Cunard Paradise Beach Hotel on a Cunard Cruise in the late 1970s. My parents had their honeymoon on the QE2 (Cunard Ship), and my family is about to go on vacation on the QM2 (Cunard Ship). It all comes full circle.
Wow. What a beautiful journey.
@@joaquinhernandez6940
😲 Super 🦸♀️ surprising 😯.
What a powerful💪 discovery, like never before
There's also a Titanic connection - Cunard was a competitor of Titanic's White Star Line. Cunard later absorbed White Star Line.
@@jgood005
😲 Super🦸♀️ surprising 😯.
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To be fair, if a cruise ship _doesn't_ come full circle, something has gone badly wrong.
Fancy seeing my home country on one of my favourite channels! This property is quite near to where I grew up. I never quite knew what went on with this project and it has become a terrible eyesore in the area. However, the hollow pandering to the mega-rich on that coast while many Barbadians who live not 5 minutes away struggle to make ends meet make this project's failure somewhat ironic and poetic. In any case, seeing somewhere so close to my childhood home made me quite homesick. Great video as always and I hope you enjoyed visiting my home! ❤
If I, from here in the U.S., could afford to visit such a beautiful destination as Barbados, your home country, don’t think I could enjoy a resort w/o considering the lives of the people and workers around me. (And the whole notion of Balinese design in the Carribbean makes no sense and rings false to me.) While the recession was worldwide, it’s inexcusable that these developers w/their grandiose plans just left the property to rot. It just goes to show how soulless and unspecial such people really are. “The hollow pandering to the mega-rich…” I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Homesick? Where are you living now?
@laurat1129 unfortunately our government has tanked our economy and dug their heels in against income diversification for many years and that pandering has become the main source of income. Through projects like this and COVID we saw how fragile our quality of life truly is in Barbados and it is depressing to say the least. They're all complicit.
@@Three_Random_Words the great white north!
One can truly see just how bad the finacial crises of 2008 was. You have covered so many different places that didn't survive it and this is just another example. Thanks Jake and your crew!
Fake crap!
the saddest thing is that if not for that it would have worked. this and others are the prime example of shitty timing
It’s important to remember that the Four Seasons is a hotel property management company, not the developers themselves. The developers would have paid a licensing fee to have the Four Seasons name on the property, which would include the staffing and day-to-day operations. The developers abandoned the project long before the Four Seasons management company took over.
That’s correct, however, it’s important to know that Fourseasons did take a larger equity stake in the project than they do with most of their announced projects
Sure it was'nt a Trump property? He would have cashed out before the fall and left the mess to others.
@@rogersmith7396 I doubt that he would have made it work. remember they picture of him with gold toliets isn't jsut because he is rich, it's because he is successful. ANd consdiering Maralago I bet he could have done somethign with this or managed it better.
@@rogersmith7396do you just have to make this political?
@@Revkor Mar a Largo was a decrepit white elephant that the city took title to to keep it from falling to ruin. They had tried to unload it on someone for years. Trump bought it for next to nothing. It was built in the 1920s I believe. He probably figured the ground alone was worth something. Given that he is always in debt up to his ears and he has had multiple bankruptcies and his real estate company will probably be closed due to illegal activities, and how he is always crying for money from his dupe cultists I would'nt bet the farm on him actually being rich. He seems to be always one step ahead of the repo man.
It’s sad that the company that owns the land isn’t made responsible to clean up all the trash debris in the area
That's been infuriating me throughout watching this - a bunch of rich foreigners fancied using the place as a colourful backdrop for their lifestyles, made a huge mess and then just walked away. They don't have to live with the consequences so they'll never do anything to clean it up or restore it. Meanwhile the poor people who live nearby have to put up with the mess, smells and probably infestations.
Every day I'm more drawn to guillotines as a policy option.
But isn't the trash inside the buildings and around the area, along with the dog bones etc from the locals?
Comparing to the vast majority of abandoned sites, there isn’t that much trash.
The locals stripped the place of anything that had value and then used it for their personal dump. Do you want to "guillotine" them as well? If not then you're a hypocrite.
They need to tear it down at least. bring the beach back there.
Jake as a student at University I visited Paradise beach in 1992, it was very exclusive and the ocean at that spot is some of the best on the west coast. In around 2017 I returned to the property and it was a sad eerie site...not to mention a danger to the public. The beach however remains magnificent. Excellent video.
Once again Jake, nicely done. My in-laws are from here and the downturn in the economy really hit the Caribbean islands hard because many relied on tourism for much of their economic growth. I was in Barbados in 2019 and they were still having a thought time recovering from the 2008 recession. Beautiful place none the less and very friendly people.
Oh, that's sad that it's taking so long to come back from it. 😞 Ans covid probably didn't help.
It's boutta get even worse 😄
I'm from Barbados so I'm so stunned to see this video. I've seen that building for pretty much all of my life. People my age ( early 20s) kind of just see it as part of the beach. Or use it for shelter and pictures on trips to the beach. It's so interesting seeing it from this perspective.
Thanks for the video! I hope you enjoyed our island!
Barbados was absolutely stunning in every single way imaginable, thank you for watching!
Barbados rules, been there 3 times and i did not know this place was there to explore :)
This site shows how superficial the luxury resort experience can be.
MTE!
Interesting that as soon as I saw Simon Cowell and Andrew Lloyd-Webber I thought it looked like somewhere I wouldn’t want to be 😂
I couldn’t agree more
I was born in Barbados but left over 20 years ago so I never got the history of what happened. There are a number of abandoned buildings in Barbados however this is an intriguing one. Thanks for making this impressive video.
Totally disappointed, not so much that it was never completed, but more for the remaining eyesore at such a beautiful location! Great insight into this fascinating abandoned development!
cost money to remove crap
Jake, you continue to impress me with your content. You fit a full-scale movie experience into a 23-minute CZcams video. The production values are unmatched. Keep it going!
It's crazy how much money was wasted, especially when parts of it were so close to getting to a point where they could have survived the elements. So many of these abandoned places could have been preserved with little investment compared to how much was already spent.
Another job well done, great video.
Everytime I hear the year 2008 or 2009, I automaticlly know why its abandoned lol
Between the original footage interspersed with historical footage and proper history lessons, this is a top notch channel for history and abandoned exploration
The quality production work of this channel is top notch; never disappoints. The opening was motion picture level!
Thank you!
Thank you and your team! 👍
Thank you for sharing. I really appreciated this video. I’m originally from Barbados and this abandon site is such an eye sore when entering the West Coast. It’s also an awful reminder how this project turned out. I hope in future something happens to that site because the beach is lovely there.
Hope you had a great stay in Barbados!
Looks like it needs Four Seasons Landscaping.
😂
Fascinating. The two times I've been to Barbados and driven past the Four Seasons sign, I always wondered what happened. With such a prominent and reputable name it surprised me that it was closed. Now I know!
Yes Four Seasons and Trump have the same quality name for grifting wealthy people
@@b4804514LOL
For anyone interested, it's possible to see pictures of how Villa 1 was in its heyday, if you search for Alana Alang or Alang Alang Villa Barbados (both apply). As late as 2013 they were trying to sell it - I recall seeing it on the net, started at £25m - or rent it at US$5500 per night! Strange no-one has tried to recover this prime land, though the best way in Barbados is to work with local people and local materials as much as one can. Thanks for this, Jake, really interesting (as always).
Your videos just keep getting better and better, and I don't even know how thats possible. But thank you, for all your content.. I watch some over and over again. Truly remarkable what you bring to us, and to CZcams Jake... amazing.
It’s disgusting to see the amount of garbage people leave behind with no respect for nature
It's starts with those who build these MONSTROSITIES [Elites] and Abandon them and the land is rendered useless.
I wish the locals would take over the structures and somehow finish them to create housing.
@@legoqueen2445 if they were, with how long it's sat abandoned, they'll likely have to tear everything down and start over from scratch...
@@zachsmith1676 such a waste of resources benefitting noone! At least the looters got in and took stuff before it rotted away! Using Chinese workforce instead of locals is also shady.
Wow, never thought I would see an exploration of an abandoned place in Barbados, especially an abandoned hotel.
Awesome video Jake, I love how this is the first abandoned place exploration that isn’t in the US or Canada.
Wonder if you might do others abandoned explorations in places like Europe or South America, that would be very cool
Jake, I’ve gotta say I love how your videos have taken such a different approach. I thought I was watching a movie at the beginning! I’ve been following all your videos since 2015! Keep up the great work!
The thing that always sticks out to me in these abandoned videos is the amount of plastic waste that builds up and sticks out so badly. The half torn down structures being swallowed by the jungle and nature almost feel like art, but the plastic bottles and trash do not fit anywhere. They rarely ever look decomposed either. A skeletal structure of a building could at least be used with wildlife as shelter once it has been left behind, but not the plastic garbage that fills these places.
Maybe it was owned by Four Seasons Total Landscaping and not Four Seasons resorts. Sometimes those two companies get confused with one another 😂
😂
Another amazing video. The cinematography the editing perfect. As someone who has made several documentaries I know the length it takes to make these. Keep up the great work!
Great video, perfect match of actual and old footage. Thanks 👍!
I always get excited when I'm informed that Bright Sun Films has posted a new video!
Ah, 2008 strikes again. Loved the intro, very dramatic and a cool property to explore. As you mentioned it's interesting to see how quickly even brand new sites can be reclaimed by nature and scrappers.
It's insane to me that there's a housing shortage and somewhere out there someone is burning millions of dollars into absolutely nothing. Imagine if this person invested all their money into affordable housing instead of just burning it?
Some of these people got their money from the housing crisis...
Writing off the value of one of these mansions was probably why it actually made sense given the amount of fiat cash injected into the economies of the world during the banking crisis of 2008-9. Inflation sucks, and instant demurrage is another name for the burning of the cash itself because of the carrying cost of the currency.
no housing shortage, just too many people.
@@doowroh Then why are there some communities and regions that don't have a housing shortage? Saying there's too many people completely misses the point that we got into this mess because of bad real estate investments and not building nearly enough housing because it's not profitable to build high-occupancy buildings compared to "luxury" apartments and massive single family homes.
@@doowroh You’re right, we should just kill everyone and then nobody would need food and shelter. Very smart.
As an Indonesian, Im Very proud Of my country. It has Inspired those who wants to build the Resort. When jake said "Batu Hijau" "Bali" I just cant stop smiling for some reason
One of your more fascinating video's in the abandoned series. Enjoyed it.
Much appreciated
They should bulldoze the lot and make the space for the public so everyone can enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
Move the concrete into the water offshore and eventually a new reef will grow. Good for tourism and the ecology of the ocean.
Wow, this is amazingly done. I only just found your channel, but now have a lot to catch up on!
Bright Sun's editing and narrating skills go continually unmatched....
I wonder if what we consider as ancient ruins were actually vacation destinations for the elites of that time period 🤔
The market crash of 2800 B.C. was brutal
As it happens, Pompeii _was_ in fact a popular vacation spot for wealthy Romans in the years leading up to its destruction in AD 79. Its scenic location on the Bay of Naples made it sort of the Capri of its day (the actual Capri having been the private property of the emperors at the time).
@@ZGryphon wow that’s really amazing. Thanks 🙏 for the information I’m going to research this whole vacation destination idea I had .
@@Ryan-sn6gn yes absolutely brutal crash in 2800 b.c they had a huge housing boom after that tho lol
Your Abandoned videos are great!!
no one does abandoned videos quite like you, absolute GOAT
Hell yea been waiting all week for this! Happy Friday everyone !
I love your videos. Please never stop. Also is there a way to suggest a location? Cool old folks home abandoned in 2019, still has power, and super untouched. anyways thanks for improving my day
There's a brand new luxury resort in Malaysia styled in French Riviera abandoned soon after opening. Every guest got haunted out never to have a night of peace. According to the Wiseman the djinns inhibitors of the island vowed to never allow anyone to sleep there in peace as they were never considered when the resort was built. They claimed they would have moved if given a new place.
Always enjoy another Abandoned video 👍
Jake, always enjoy watching your videos. One of my favorites was Murf Klaubers Colony Beach and Tennis Resort in Longboat Key Florida, which I've watched several times. Thanks for memorializing these once wonderful places. Looking forward to your next location 😀👍
Fascinating documentary, very interesting backstory and progress of this property. Amazing work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful work. Thanks for sharing it. ✌️
Great find, thank you for sharing!
Once again an astonishing and fascinating video. It is really hard to believe that this sits abandoned for 15 Years, this would be a great location for Holidays.
I can really appreciate the hustle of getting to travel to Barbados for "work" and writing off the travel as a business expense. I should find a way to do that....
Ooooooh stunning location. Thank you Jake for visiting it and bringing it to life with your usual stunning cinematography, research and narration. I just cannot believe it has never been resurrected!
If you ever want to come to Australia, there’s an abandoned resort on an island off Queensland…
Enjoy your stay in Barbados, definitely visit oinstins and enjoy the night life. My whole family is from Barbados so its nice to learn some history.
He’s probably been back for months if not years.
What is oinstins?
@AzureWolf168 a fishing town with vibrant nightlife.
@@journeyswithj246 oh
It's actually Oistins and it's a very popular spot especially on Friday and Saturday nights to get great food, particularly fish.
Love these videos. So well filmed and put together. Awesome job!
Thanks so much!
I really love these episodes. Abandon places are awesome
Amazing how nature reclaims a place.
The editing in your videos is getting better and better I love it
Cool! Now do the Coco Palms Resort on Kauai! :) Awesome history as always. Thanks!
Another excellent episode Jake, thank you.
Thank you!
Fantastic find
this is hauntingly beautiful, thank you!
Thanks, to you and your crew, Mr. Jake. Great work. Great video. Peace, from Florida, USA.
I still think you need your own TV show. It would be great to do a whole series on all of this stuff globally. This resort could've been something special and I do believe that they should take the original concepts and try to complete it. I really like the balinese style. Such an awesome video from one of my favorite channels.
This is an incredibly cool one mixing the exploration of the site with history portions!
Superb production yet again Jake, you do abandoned like no other 😊. I feel for the local people who now have to live with this, the developers should be made to clean up their mess and leave something of a positive legacy for the people of Barbados to enjoy. I do wonder how the properties would have fared by design given the open elements and the fact that storms could have damaged the proprieties. Guess we will never know
Very interesting documentary. Even Four Seasons couldn't overcome the debilitating effects of a global recession. And we never really conquer nature. It just sits and waits, and it can always outlast us.
Love the work you do!
It's incredible how quickly nature can and will take a space back once people vacate it. Everything really DOES return to the earth, eventually.
I LOVE YOUR NEW INTRO
i was always saying the "whats up guys, this is abandoned" or whatever it was, sounded soooo unprofessional.
also, love your new cameras or editing software!
Just want to sit on that beautiful beach and watch the sunset.
Good Job! Jake! across all channels buddy... Loving the hotel / cruise reviews .. :)
If you look it up on google maps it‘s even more impressive. Those beachside houses with their huge pools, man, what a sight! You think for a second it wouldn’t take that much to get it back to life - then you get real and realize: it’s almond impossible to rebuild without loosing tons of money in the long run. Sad, very sad!
Incredible doc. Thank you x
😮incredible
Absolutely brilliant production!!!!!!!
That was some insanely astounding architecture!
THANK YOU BRO! KEEP UP THE BEST WORK!!!!
Keep doing what you do 👍💕
Great video as always! I’d Love to see you do an episode on Picher Oklahoma. That would be amazing!
This underscore is epic as hell. Great intro!
Don't mind if I watch this immediately.
I remember your first abandoned episode youve gotten so amazing. I hope you are able to meet your biggest goals
Love the respectful, knowledgeable undestructive, well sought out pov you put into these abandoned videos. You don’t add some bs theories etc. 👌🏻👏
Shocking and fantastic at the same time. Thank you.
Yall have THE best abandoned projects content!
For the money lost in this, the gov't could have just built affordable housing, or invested in training and educational facilities, or any number of things to help the locals. Instead, once again, public money is spent saturating third party private investment for no return.
That's what upset a lot of us Barbadians especially when it flopped.