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Old 23-06-2007, 13:10
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Originally Posted by ToTheBeach View Post
The hotel section is far from abandond. Millenium Hotels is going to open a 400 room hotel in Jungceylon.
I hope this is true. Everytime I walked through there last December the hotel section looked pretty derelict. If/when it does happen, you're correct that it will be a Millennium brand - the funds that rescued Jungceylon came from the same Singaporeans who brought us the Millennium Hilton Bangkok.

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If Patong wants to keep growing as an established destination for a range of tourists it was a nessecity to add something like Jungceylon.
I fully agree and, if the gov't was smart, they'd step in and do whatever they could to get this project up and running at full capacity by high season.