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Title: Survivor Cook Islands now taping; all hotels are booked due to the production
Post by: chunkylover53 on July 10, 2006, 07:50:37 AM
From Realityblurred.com

Production on Survivor Cook Islands has been ongoing for a few months now, but filming officially began last Monday, July 3. Given a typical 39 day production schedule, the last day will be August 11.

The show is using four islands in the Aitutaki lagoon, according to The Cook Islands, an “independent, non-commercial guide” to the region. The site reports that a locally “famous ‘coconut king’” named Piri Purotu has “been teaching the contestants survival techniques including how to start a fire without matches or lighter.”

In addition, the site says that host Jeff Probst and executive producer Mark Burnett, and presumably other crew members, are staying at the Pacific Resort Aitutaki, which has room rates that start at $495 a night. In addition, “almost all accommodation is booked out until the end of August” because “the production company is expected to have more than 200 people on the island.”

And that’s not the only disruption. An airline is changing its routes, and the lagoon cruise “will take a different route to avoid the motus (small islands) which are being used as a location.” As a result, some “fear that the programme will damage the fragile tourist trade,” according to the site.
Title: Re: Survivor Cook Islands now taping; all hotels are booked due to the production
Post by: Texan on July 12, 2006, 04:35:51 PM
In addition, the site says that host Jeff Probst and executive producer Mark Burnett, and presumably other crew members, are staying at the Pacific Resort Aitutaki, which has room rates that start at $495 a night. In addition, “almost all accommodation is booked out until the end of August” because “the production company is expected to have more than 200 people on the island.”

Interesting comment since the last couple of shows Mark Burnett has not been at the filming of the show.  He has left it up to the producers an article last season or the season before had him saying.