Paradise or Bust

Description: BBC / Reality Show / Documentary series following the progress of 26-year-old entrepreneurs Ben Keene and Mark Bowness ... more

Paradise or Bust ... in their attempt to errect a village for eco-tourists on the remote Fijian island of Vorovoro.

Newest Review: ... on for Ben and Mark on Vorovoro where the obvious lack of finances, mainly caused by a malicious campaign on the internet suggesting that maybe the scheme was all a con and so customers wary and staying away from financial commitment. No customers, no tribe. The fact that Dan had been involved in similar harebrain financial ventures that had failed left customers quite rightfully wary. People ... more

... on the internet were all too willing to dig up his past and post up hyperlinks. Time-share (which is what this effectively is) has a bad rep at the best of times, so the idea of paying to live on a deserted Fijian Island with no facilities seemed a b...more

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Paradise or Bust: A carbon guzzling eco dream...? (1312 words)
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The latest green and clean documentary to gently wash over our nightly screens and soothe our middle class guilt over global warming is BBC2s 'Paradise or Bust', the adventures of two young and honorable clean-cut entrepreneurial brothers from Middle England who have set up a time-share eco break on a desert island. The project on the Fijian island of 'Vorovoro' was set up as a utopian ideal where eco punters could go back to basics and buy stays on the idyllic postcard paradise for about $250 a week, more of your guilt lifted after driving to work in the 4 x 4 in the U.K. for 50 weeks in the year ( the boys hire one on the show) as you help to build the sustainable ... Read the complete review

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