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A trip to Disney isn’t cheap these days no matter how good your budgeting skills are.
A one day admission ticket for visitors over 10 years of age will ring in at $75.00 USD and any meal at the ABC Commissary (one of 88 dining options at the Orlando Disney) will leave you $14.99 poorer than when you entered the Magic Kingdom. If you plan on staying overnight, even a campground spot will take a $43.00 bite out of your budget.
But even the most generous spender will be hard pressed to figure out just how a Disney visit could total more than $400,000.
All they need to do, though, is talk with Malaysia’s Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, a businessman and government contractor who spent just that amount at Disney Paris and Disney Orlando, according to an article published in The New Straits Times last week.
Mr. Toyo, whose trip was billed as a “technical visit,” was supposed to be gathering information that might be useful as Malaysia gets ready to build its own theme park. Yet he didn’t meet with any Disney officials; instead, he hired a tour guide to sport himself, his family (wife + 3 kids), and a maid around the parks.
A handful of expense reports turned in by Toyo indicated that he hired a Mercedes Benz, rented out the Presidential Suite, and flew first class from one park to the other. He also paid for a group of traditional dancers–from his own country– to welcome him and his entourage upon their arrival.
The government is now investigating Mr. Toyo’s trip in hearings of the Select Committee on Competence, Accountability and Transparency. So far, Mr. Toyo has not made an appearance at any of the hearings.
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Hmm…I wonder if they’ll notice…naaaah!
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WOW!…uhmmmm….WOW! Now did he really think that he would get away with that?
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In Malaysia, you can get away with anything… like blowing up mongolian models with C4…
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Hilarious! He could have come to Perdido Key, Florida, a veritable wonderland for experience junkies for next to nothing and had lots more fun, I’m sure. Plenty of people would have danced for/with him at Flora-Bama, for sure.
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Who among us wished, upon reading the headline, that this story was going to be about high priced hookers dressed up as Disney characters?
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Not only did the headline indicate a story about high class hookers dressed as disney characters, but so did the little mermaids outfit!
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Something is amiss here… Snow White doesn’t wear a black corset and Ariel is usually in a flesh-colored bodysuit…
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Wait…he FLEW from park to park? They’re actually far enough apart that you can do that? I was under the impression that they were walking distance, requiring a Town Car at the maximum!
Also, I would prefer step-by-step instructions please. Tell me exactly how much everything costs, so I can imagine myself having a similar vacation. This report is too brief!
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I think that photo was taken at San Francisco’s Bay to Breaker’s race. That Little Mermaid is waaaay too sexy for D-land.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one noticing the mermaid’s outfit. Those shells look like they are barely hanging on!
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The story didn’t really live up to the headline and picture..
I was expecting at least a drug fuelled gang bang possibly involving dwarves and/or clowns.
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Ok, forget the story.
The Ariel in the photo above is freaking hot.↵ -
WHAT? What did he do, lounge in luxury for a year?
If the costume is huge enough, can we make him dress up as one of the Disney characters and pander to all the Disneyland vusutirs until he earns back all the excess expenditure?
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WHAT? What did he do, lounge in luxury for a year?
If the costume is huge enough, can we make him dress up as one of the Disney characters and pander to all the Disneyland visitors until he earns back all the excess expenditure?
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Oh…. he will get away with it for sure….
by the way, local news has it that he’s got a mansion on about 50,000 sq feet of land too.. God knows how much that is..funny how people can afford things like these on a civil servant’s salary…
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Just think what the King and Sultan of Malaysia spend on vacation at the expense of their poor hard working people
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Now all Malaysians are dreaming of following the travel routes taken by Toyo and his entourage. Politicians in Malaysia have no problem for money. Do not ask them. You may be blown up by C4.
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wait till you folks in Washington get meet the new malaysian ambassador to USA.
he is well known to pinch ladies butts.
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He claims to have garnered his wealth by being a cosmetic dentist. Obviously he has learned the art of drilling into government coffers to upkeep his pleasure jaunts. Yet the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission seems to ignore hauling him to answer to any of these glaring blatant misuse of power as a politician holding the office then as a Minister of the state of Selangor.
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Malaysia has a nickname, it’s called “Boleh-Land”…as in “Land of Can-Do”, which means if you are one of those who walk in the corridor of power, anything is possible. This story doesn’t even scratch the surface of what this Minister has done in the past…
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