The Hotel was built starting in the early 1990s by Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of the former Indonesian President Suharto. It was an investment project, but it ended quite bad, because the playboy Tommy went to prison in 2002, after being convicted of ordering the assassination of a judge on Indonesia’s Supreme Court who had previously found him guilty of corruption charges, so the hotel construction halted forever, and never restarted. The real estate developer mentioned above became cursed due to his corrupt business practices and went bankrupt. the land still belongs to Tommy, but the hotel stands abandoned. Locals tell more sinister tales, of overworked laborers who died while building it remaining to haunt the site, and of a curse put on the businessman who developed it, leaving him bankrupt. One of the crimes he was found guilty of was a land scam (with the backing of the military and local police) he forced landowners off their property before offering compensation 1/10 of the value of their property and torturing those who refused. He planned to build another resort, but with his jailing and the disintegration of the Suharto regime, his companies quickly fell apart.

The rumors were mostly about that the terrorist attacks in Bali caused the halting of the construction of the hotel, but it’s not true.
This high-end resort with huge hallways, rooms, terraces was never opened before. The only missing thing is the furniture. The long-awaited 5-star hotel was almost finished, around 80-90% were already done. The locals in Bali afraid of ghosts, so they don’t dare to visit the hotel, so eventually they keep the hotel untouched. Only western tourists visited it, so overall the palace hotel is in good condition, although it’s more than 20 years it’s abandoned. Something like this wouldn’t have been around for a while in Europe or in America. Now decades later, it is slowly becoming a tourist attraction. There is no sign of human presence, and there are no indications that plans exist to renovate or reopen the resort in the future.