AN abandoned hotel with a colourful past and once renowned for scandal and debauchery has been left to rot.
Haludovo palace – dubbed the Peace and Porn hotel – sits on the idyllic Croatian island of Krk.
The Haludovo palace hotel was once a lavish resort
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The resort hosted famous guests like Saddam Hussein
Glamorous hostesses would serve champagne at the hotel
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The hotel opened in 1972 when Croatia was still part of Yugoslavia but it was abandoned years later due to lack of funding and a civil war.
Before its demise the swanky venue was a favourite of the brutal tyrant, Saddam Hussein.
Owned by mega-rich American porn baron, Bob Guccione, the spot was once a luxurious resort known for hosting raunchy parties.
Scantily clad hostesses in corsets called “Penthouse Pets” swanned around waiting on guests and the swimming pool was once filled with champagne.
According to Balkan Insight, visitors were thought to have eaten 100kg of lobster and 11 pounds of caviar every day, with hundreds of bottles of champagne to wash it all down.
Despite the country being communist at the time, foreign visitors swarmed to the hotel to party, drink and gamble.
Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used to stay in the master suite at the hotel it’s now a sprawling ruin covered in graffiti and is a shadow of its former self.
Bob invested $45million (£34million) into the resort, adding the Penthouse Adriatic Club Casino – a gambler’s paradise.
He had hoped to inspire relations between the US and Yugoslavia by encouraging Americans to visit the island.
Every inch of the complex was designed for leisure, pleasure, and decadence.
It boasted glittering chandeliers, poolside cocktail service a bowling alley and conversation pits.
It also had 17 tennis courts, a mini football pitch and mini-golf, as well as waterski, paragliding and diving centres.
Despite its popularity Bob’s dream for a lavish paradise was short-lived and the hotel went bankrupt within one year of opening.
It did stay operating for two decades but all the while it was struggling to bring in a profit and its glittering reputation slipped away.
And, in the 1990s, when the civil war broke out the number of tourists plummeted and the funding dried up.
The hotel even housed refuges between 1991 and 1995 but eventually it was deserted.
Since then, the ruins have become a popular place for tourists looking for abandoned places – even though it no longer has any furniture.
Shattered glass and worn graffiti now litter the building.
The main hall floor is covered with debris and the swimming pool is now a dirty sunken pit.
The hallways are now dark and dingy hollow corridors where the paint is peeling from the walls.
Many have attempted to revive the hotel the last being in 2018 but permission was denied when it was decided that the majority of the coastline would have to be closed during the $300m (£232m) renovations.
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The hotel was known to be a gambling hotspot
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AlamyThe hotel went bankrupt after it had been open just one year[/caption]
AlamyThere have been many attempts to revive the hotel but all have failed[/caption]
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