Exploring an Untouched ABANDONED Hotel
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2022
- Today we're venturing inside a nearly untouched, recently abandoned hotel. Known as a popular convention lodge, this 300 room hotel leaves behind a long legacy dating back to the 1970's and just recently shut its doors. Join me as I document a property seemingly stuck in time with everything left as it was, while the building decays around it. It's a surreal look into what a building is like when it's first left to the elements.
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Sad to see that vandals have already started destroying this place, but apart from that it's amazing how preserved this place is. Clearly they expected to just reopen after the main part of the pandemic, but they never did.
>graffiti in an indoor skate park
Seems fine to me
taggers are the worst people in existence. they contribute nothing of value to anything. bunch of stupid copy and paste block letters. so original!
Have scrappers began stripping all the copper yet? It’s sad to see this hotel in this state
I mean to be fair the graffiti seems to be isolated to the pool, which is pretty respectable of who ever already got into the place and didn’t completely destroy it, like they left the piano alone lol
i hope you at least water the plants...
Hi, I know i'm 11 months late, but it's strange for me to watch this. I was a customer service supervisor here up until closure. You all might be wondering why it was left with beds made and breakfast service ready to go. Unfortunately, the night shift handed over to the morning shift who started preparing for the day, at around 9am we were called, ironically, into the conference room, where we were then told that the hotel would be closing, we could go home and await further instructions as there was no need for us to be in. A week or two went by when we were told it's not necessary for us to return, and things were left pretty much where we left them. The only people who entered after us were managers and a removal team who dismantled/removed workable items that could be relocated to other properties. There was only 1 guest at the time of our closure, but we had a recruitment event being held there 2 days later, hence why Conference Room B was semi-made.
@@TheMusicvideorecords, you must be new to the urban exploration world. It is not encouraged for locations of these explorations to be made widely known. This is to prevent further vandalism from occurring.
@@traingirl09never let them know
Based on the early 2020 planner, I'm guessing this is one of the many victims of the pandemic. Everything shut down and it was no longer viable to keep the lights on? or pay your salaries which i think is the saddest part.
hello uh what was the name of this hotel before it closed lol?
@@RonLaws no, it closed because it smelled like poo and no matter how much they spend on cleaner and air designer they could not remove the poo smell so they went bankrupt
It would be wild to show this to someone from 5 years ago and tell them, “yeah it’s because of a virus.” How terrifying.
Ikr, you would've thought we'd never had viruses before
Hmm.
That sounds like an awesome movie idea.
Time travel back 5-10 years and bring edited video footage of the worst of the pandemic.
Use the fear to manipulate and gain control of society.
@@athos1974 That, or encourage everyone to take it more seriously, and MAYBE reduce the time spent needed to try and at least reduce the impact of it.
@@commanderjason7786 Absolutely true. Trying to make the world a better place uplifting movie theme.
I was thinking about more of a world domination mad dictator movie theme though. Lol.
Nope. Government lockdowns based on a lie.
That’s seriously the nicest abandoned facility you’ve ever featured. It’s like everyone was there one shift and nobody showed up for the next.
it's a pos
I'm sure that was exactly how it was. My office was business as usual and then one Wednesday they told us to take our computers home. One of my systems people told me they were given three days to get us a way to work from home. The plan was to have us all back in three months. Three years later and I into the office one day a month, and that's only because we got some new idiot in charge who felt we need "team building." It really makes you realize that we build a lot of stuff that we don't really need in this world.
@@eumorphavonobscura2753Because I think if you can work from home, you should.
The restaurant set up, the pumpkin water catchers, the made beds...all point out that the employees here had NO IDEA that the day they came in to do their usual duties that it would have been the last time they would ever set foot into this establishment.
True
Nah, I'm sure the writing was on the wall at that point. The place was probably hung on as long as it could, temporarily shut down, and a tried too hard to keep non-essential systems running during the shut down and bankrupted itself.
Usually for a property that size they keep skeleton crew on for a while, then after that gets too expensive it becomes one or two security guards, then eventually a car that comes in sometimes, so I'd think the skeleton crew put those out.
I think covid hit many places like that. I taught at a community center, one day they called and said semester is over…no time to even come back and collect my stuff in the classroom. Finally allowed back in after a year and a half. They tried to reopen but no one wanted to be in classes with potential covid carriers. Then finally they made the final decision to close forever just keeping the ac running and maintainence was just too much for too long.
It’s not unheard of that employees get the shaft the day of. I know of a steakhouse that closed down one day. Employees came into work and doors were locked, pretty crummy.
I was a valet at the double tree hotel downtown denver in march 15th we were told to go home and will call you when Tom come back oh I was thinking ok maybe a week off cool that didn't happen .few months later my girlfriend passed from covid it was her house I had to move out of colorado to expensive for a apartment had to give up my pets and move to shitty Illinois where my family lives
I worked as a housekeeper when everything shut down and before they fired everyone, there was a couple weeks where travel was shut down but we were still working, so we took the opportunity to do the deep cleaning you dont get to do in the normal season, get all the comforters washed and stuff. So I could see that being done in the time right before going out of business for good, leaving it cleaner than its ever been since it first opened.
@@scuffmacgillicutty7509 It was the lodging in a national park. I'm sure lots of hotels did that whether they went out of business or not. I dont think the place I worked at went out of business I just meant "shut down" as in they stopped taking guests for a while.
@@personontheinternets I also work in a National Park! Yellowstone, to be precise. What park did you work at?
Please don’t tell em
@@Mirrorunlimited Uh why do you care? 🤣
yeah im not doxing myself lol
2:00 Respect to the servers and bus people who cleaned and set those tables that one last time. I hope y'all are doing okay. ♥
Yeah, respect. Most probably, not 100% of them are doing ok...
@Sun 🔆 Shine 🔆 I use to work at a steakhouse that closed due to a owner that had a major loss due to investing to much money in the stock market as a result the restaurant didn't have enough capital to physically keep its doors open. We didn't find this out till numerous days later. At the time we just assumed we weren't making enough business which left us dumbfounded because I thought are food was pretty good. Of course we weren't Ruth Chris but I thought for the money we were at least above average. Our last day we were told to clean the tables , roll the silver in napkins, restock the condiments if they are low and various other things. It didn't make any sense considering it was our last day and we were closing. After we left I assumed they were going to take stuff out. But Months later are setting of the tables was still in place like it was set for another day. The intruders could have very well done this. But I wouldn't put it past the restaurant to have the tables set, they do weird $hit like that.
@@BilisNegra are any of us ok
@@lifequest7453 there was a guy who replied before you that gave a pretty good story but when stuff like this closes the owners know waaaay in advance regardless of how or why it happens. The actual workers are always the last to find out officially. My guess is that they want the place to look good if they're selling the property later. Also shout out to this guy for confirming that every room still has a tv and they left an entire piano behind ima get it if I lived there
When I think of how many people are homeless, it breaks my heart to see all this space not being used to create places for people to live.
You are 100% Correct. This only shows you how apathetic Big Business is to the situation of Working People. They would rather pay property taxes on an abandoned hotel, than to get a BIG Tax Break by offering it as low cost housing at least unti a profitable use could be found. At least it would keep the place safe from vandalism and from rot.
What you must remember is that Capitalism Always values Financial Profit over Human Life.
ALWAYS !!!
If I was homeless and found this I'd be stoked
I was thinking the same...those hotel room beds still looked pretty damn cozy
Same 😊
Same, would start setting camp here
Seriously!! I’d do my best in making it look abandon still & live there as much as I could!
And I'd be creepy living in that large space alone
What I appreciate about your exploration videos is that there's no cheesy sound effects and plenty of silence. Everyone else seems to want to make ghost stories out of abandoned buildings, but whenever I watch your vids I end up contemplating the temperality of everything, how the biggest buildings/attractions can fall into irrelevancy at any time.
You wanna talk about how the biggest buildings/attractions can fall into irrelevancy at any time. Talk about "lehman brothers", they were one of the biggest global financial institutions in the world. Founded in 1847. It lasted for 161 years and survived both the civil war and the great depression only to be wiped off the face of the earth by the 2008 recession.
@@appliedengineering4001 damn rip their building is it still standing?
Jake merely panned to a van outside, stated it was concerning and simply continued. So many ubanx'ers will take a minute to go all Blair Witch Proj. So annoying. Jakes vids OTOH are always a vibe.
He also knows how to shut the fuck up and he's respectful. One of my pet peeves about most urban explorers. Nonstop talking about whatever bs comes into their head and messing around with everything.
Indeed. So many just need to do something stupid and mindless with places like this.
What makes this place stand out so much is the level of preservation. It really looks like they were prepared to reopen after the pandemic. And it never did.
It looks like humanity just vanished from this place, and that is whats so fascinating.
Maybe they’re still planning to…😮
The two weeks turned into until vaccines. And the vaccines didn't change much, so they just made people double triple vax. The only thing that changed the pandemic was when omicron spread like fire and when everyone got over that cold. Things started to be normal again.
@@Rix317 The vaccines stopped people from dying left and right. People got much less ill because of it luckily so it did help. But staying at home, washing hands and keeping distance helped to lessen the spread of the virus
@@Rix317 lol covid (any variation) is far from a cold. Had it twice. Pre and post vaccine. The vaccine made it way easier to get through.
My fiance and I had long term damage from the first time we had it. Never had long term damage from a cold. And I've never heard of anyone having long term damage from a cold.
@@myra0224 Yes, I think the vaccines not only save lives and minimize symptoms (supposedly.... but some people i know still had bad fever and body aches), people were also more ready to go out after being vaccinated. It feels pretty normal in most countries now, i think? Except for maybe China and a few countries in the East.
Honestly a lot of these abandoned hotels and motels could be easily turned into homeless shelters or cheap apartments
Yep. Smart and sustainable solutions.
You can but think how can they eat
The liability issues involved is why this rarely happens. Nearly impossible to get insurance when you do that. Cities can't afford to purchase and operate it.
@@brightsonaEnt dumb question
What if they’re haunted? 😱
I am shocked the owners did not have an auction. Those pianos alone go for 16-27k depending on model and condition. But I will say I pleasantly surprised to see it has not been looted either.
My cousin said you can see fire damage on the top floor while driving by.
I just wanna say that you mentioned "it's surprising there's so much decay on a short period of time". But I think people tend to forget these old buildings arent usually abandoned in perfect shape. Generally they're already having various issues by the time they're abandoned.
Or they had small issues that were fixable and maybe even had work orders to get them fixed but the shutdown happened and then the complete closure happened, so those small problems aren't so small anymore.
@@walker1984 that's probably whats happened.
me and my friends just found this hotel its crazy how good condition it's in. I hate when people destroy it. It's been 2 weeks since this video and all the dishes in the restaurant are broken on the floor. I hate people that's trash these places and ruin it for the rest.
If they have the homeless living there, and responsible for take caring of the place, and maintaining it, and protecting it from vandals, that would be putting it to good use. It could be a self-sustaining place. They do the cooking, they do the laundry, they do the cleaning oh, they do the maintenance, and the security. It will give them a place to go and something to do.
@@FrankFox-yu1xfyour ideas are not typical of those who are homeless. You don't see tent villages in spotless condition. Sadly many homeless have no pride in what they do. It's unlikely they would ever upkeep this huge facility
I bet that piano has been smashed and torn to pieces
@@FrankFox-yu1xf Homeless taking care of a place and maintaining it. Have you ever been to a big city?
@@benscovil Sad
It's a shame that the building can't be repurposed into, say, apartments. I love seeing unusual buildings being made into apartments - my sister's old co-worker was a teacher who had retired, the school she taught at was closed right afterward and was converted to apartments for seniors. The room she moved into turned out to be her original homeroom. I wish more landowners would repurpose perfectly fine, structurally sound buildings into something other than a future pile of rubble.
I think this would made a great senior citizen living space
I was thinking the same thing. The space and furniture could be used for so much. I know it’s not that simple but still sad to see.
You would think that it's a lot more reasonable to renovate and repurpose for a quickly growing need to do just that to adequately care for and keep expenses from skyrocketing as is happening with each new facility and something like this could contain a whole suite of support services under one roof.. so to speak. 👍👍
There’s a lot of repurposed properties happening like one mall and as turned into a collage and a school was turned into apartments.
An old elementary school in Fairfax va was kept as a condominium front office.
I can't believe how much stuff is left behind in some of these places. You'd think they would sell/liquidate or donate or something...
It was likely a case of the owners attempting to retain the interiors and sell it as a turnkey property with everything ready to go. Obviously something went wrong in the process
@@BrightSunFilms Something for sure... This one appears to me like its stuck in receivership limbo. Some of your other video visits, like even the empty malls have so much equipment and fixtures left behind to rot. It amazes me why its not sold/liquidated before the scrappers get to it. Regardless, thank you for your videos, they're real eye openers.
Right? He said they sold it for 15M, if I had been the new investor, I would have immediately salvaged what I could into storage or sold as soon as I realized I wasn't going to be able to open right back up. Most of that stuff is going to have to be removed for refurbishment or renovation anyway, just because of the mold.
@@BrightSunFilms That's what usually happens when everything is left behind. That or legal issues.
@@robertpettit5394 Furniture isnt worth much brother
I've been to a few hotels that have a large closed in atrium, and for some reason, I have always really liked that style of hotel. You can go outside your room to the amenities without having to actually go outdoors, which is nice when the weather is really cold or hot. Something about those hotels has always stuck with me, but sadly more and more of them are closing.
Yeah just like how all the indoor malls have closed too. Why do people want everything outside?
@@Youngthunder7 cheaper
The Orlando World Center Marriott is like that and it's awesome!
@@Youngthunder7 Quicker in and out. Park directly outside the actual store you want instead of walking all the way around, through, or across. Especially with arms full of merchandise. Malls suck.
Although Atriums are gorgeous, they take up space that can generate revenue and are costly to heat and Air.
This was one of the Holliday Inn "Hollidomes" from the 70's/80's and it wasn't just for conventions. In the northern US it was a cheap vacation for people who would go to the hot, humid Hollidomes where you could walk around like you were in Florida, that also had a pool, arcade, shuffleboard, fooseball, bar and restaurants.
There's absolutely no one that delivers such amazing content like Jake and Company! Six stars rating!
The proper people are interesting too. I stopped watching them after tiring of their hate for the US. They keep coming back here though. Confused as to why.
@@ihatemybosses They ARE American.
@@ihatemybosses The Proper People's hate for America? The only remotely political thing I've ever heard them say was when they were in the New Orleans prison that flooded during Katrina while prisoners were left locked up.
Right! Crazy to see the awesome growth… naturally gifted! Another great production.
Make that a twenty star rating!
It's a little sad that clearly all the workers were intending to come back. It makes me wonder how much heads up they had that it was closing
Probably not much, if any at all. In March of 2020, most businesses were open before being told to close by the government shutdown. It's like the saying, "Here today, gone tomorrow." The shutdown shuttered so many businesses, a lot of those businesses, never were able to open, ever again. 😢😥
While a shutdown was expected, no one was ready for it. More than likely, the restaurant was preparing for breakfast when they were likely informed they were being forced to close and kick guests and non-essential staff out.
Make no mistake this was a government problem not a virus problem
@@thisisme3238 Actually, 40% of them shut down for good.
@@dannysdailys Do you have a link to backup the statistic numbers, that sounds a little high...unless those are world wide statistics.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm a huge fan and love everything you make, but this one really hits home for me in a very tender and profound way. I apologize in advance to everyone for such a lengthy comment, but I've never gotten the chance to talk about this before.
This is the first time you've explored a location I've actually been to myself when it was in operation. It's very spooky to me because not only do I know this place, I know it intimately: I have extremely personal and special memories of this hotel, and staying there was a formative event in my life. I attended a conference here almost twenty years ago now - I can't remember the exact date - and I got to stay in one of the first floor atrium rooms. The experience changed my life. I'm not a frequent traveler or anything, but I've stayed in a few hotels over the years and have even been lucky enough to stay in a handful of really nice ones. I'd never stayed in a hotel like this one before, and I as write this I haven't ever got the chance to do so again. No other hotel I've ever been in has left this big of an impact on me: Those few days I spent here are burned into my psyche and have continued to inspire me ever since.
That atrium was so, *so* beautiful when the hotel was operational. My nervous system is hypersensitive to stimuli, and walking through those doors into the atrium for the first time was overpowering in the best possible way: To me everything felt bright, warm, colorful, inviting and welcoming, and the banners hanging down from the ceiling added just the right touch of grandeur. It felt alive and bustling as guests and conference attendees mingled, toed and froed, but it also felt cozy at the same time. It was like we were all in living in our own little community together: That wide, spacious concourse was like our own Main Street, we had our own community swimming pool (with hot tub!) and, when I was there at least, there was even a video arcade in that second floor kiosk-room you can see in a few shots. At night we'd all "go out on the town", sit by the pool and socialize, then go upstairs and hang out at the arcade into well into the wee hours of the morning. Some kids would even play tag and hide-and-seek by ducking and weaving between the atrium, the surrounding hotel and the maintenance areas! It was so lovely and so much fun. I caught myself repeatedly thinking how nice it would be to live in a place like this, especially given its location and what the weather gets like there 'round about February or March.
For years and years after that conference this hotel stuck out in my mind, and I never could completely explain why. Sure, it was a delightful weekend or whatever, but something about the building itself touched my heart too and it frustrated me I couldn't identify or articulate what it was or why. Over a decade later I discovered the philosophy of themed spaces and, entranced, I read all I could about design theory, Victor Gruen and the mall concept. Only then did things finally "click" for me: The reason I felt so happy in places like (good) malls, the ski mountain I live by with an outdoor plaza stylized as an Alpine village, the Contemporary Resort and EPCOT in Walt Disney World and this hotel is because I have some kind of innate, deep-rooted affection for modernist architecture. I love inhabiting a space that's been meticulously designed from the ground up around a theme and to service a need for people in a creative, elegant way. It's probably also why I have a huge thing for ocean liners too. I now consider 20th Century design theory a true passion of mine, it's helped mould my creativity and imagination in all sorts of new ways and allowed me to learn much more about who I am as a person. I'm confident in saying that never would have happened if I hadn't stayed here all those years ago.
I knew the hotel had changed hands a lot over the 2010s, went through some hard times and eventually closed in 2020. Even so, it's still so surreal seeing it like this. I'm happy it's more or less untouched (or at least it was when you were there), and I echo the sentiments of a lot of the other commenters calling it for it to be turned into a residential community. The housing situation in this country is so sad and it breaks my heart when people go homeless while places like this are torn down and forgotten. It's a cliché, I know, but in the case of this sort of modernist design in my (admittedly very limited) experience, "they really don't build them like they used to anymore". It's infuriating, too, because this is pretty much the exact problem this type of architecture could have helped solve in the first place.
I don't know if anybody will read this given the absurd length and lateness both, but I'm grateful for the opportunity to share my story all the same. I literally cried genuine tears writing this. Please keep doing what you love: Art like this touches people.
Beautifully said, thank you
😢I would’ve looked amazing.
Wish I could’ve saw it when it was in service
Youre a beautiful person
@@strengthful6058 Thank you so much! I'm deeply flattered, and this made my night😊
@@CrakenFlux Thank you for reading! It means a lot.
Really sad to see the piano, beds, and other things not be donated to charity and left to rot. Greedy companies would rather their assets literally rot into the ground than to help others. I am sure there are schools nearby who would have loved a donation of a baby grand piano. How many foster kids and kids/adults in group homes need new mattresses and sheets? Makes me sick.
This could've easily been rented out as a low budget filming location. Not just as a hotel, but all these rooms and such could easily represent anything else. There is even plenty of room for sets.
Movie should be called "Shining Again".
I missed where this was. Near studios?
@@RoodeMenon "HEEEEEEERRE'S COVID!"
Exactly what I was thinking.
Stay in skate park. That pool!
It always amazes me that businesses are allowed to just "walk away" and leave a building to rot. Somewhere down the line it becomes someone else's financial problem.
I don't think that's the case here. The hotel was clearly closed abruptly as the tables are set, rooms made and ready to go, and it looks like it closed either with the intention to reopen fairly quick, or the owners ran out of money form it being closed longer then they had anticipated. Either way this is not a case of the owners just letting rot, especially since it was bought so fast.
not to mention how many people this building could house... if you aren't using it, let others occupy it.
@@adondriel Well, squatting in vacant buildings is very definitely a thing, though the lack of electricity and running water would may make conditions less than ideal. There is also the issue of who is responsible if someone gets injured on the premises.
That said, it is my impression that this hotel is not located in a major urban area so presumably there is little local demand for free housing.
Please inform us what silly laws you would have in place to stop people doing what they want with their own property?
I mean what would you have done with it? It wasn’t profitable. If it was it would still be open.
your videos are always insanely good, i've reccomended them to countless friends
Thank you so much!
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It's a shame how vandal's have already started trashing it. Extremely eerie how a virus can do such damage. You see it in the movie's but never think of it happening in real life.
Somehow this is even scarier than the buildings that have been abandoned for many years
Can you imagine what would happen if Biden and company treated the flu, that kills tens of thousands each year, like the covid scare. We would be in a perpetual state of hysteria called for by these democratic tools and the nation would die much faster than they are killing it now.
@@ChickenNugget-ev8zd Is it due the eerieness of it being a liminal space?
Wow, two pianos in mint condition for the price of one? That's crazy! I'd hate to see them deteriorate or get wrecked
That’s surprising
The comment section always loves a piano lol
How’d you leave a comment 7 days ago when it says the video was posted 2 hours ago?
@@GRosa250 probably through patreon support. folks can often get content early for supporting channels that way
@@opekamma I think you’re right. I just always thought they were posted early on a different platform not on YT. I didn’t realize you could do that.
What is really spooky about this is there were people who went home one night in early 2020 and never went back to the same work place again.
Happened to me. Clocked out at the end of my shift on a Sunday in March 2020, woke up the next morning to find a voice mail from my boss telling me that we had all been laid off. The company ended up being sold two months later and the new owner decided to close our location.
@@RockwellsWildLife oh no! I'm sorry that happened to you. I work for a school and it was the creepiest thing walking through deserted hallways for the remainder of the 2019/ 2020 school year.
It's absolutely wild to think that you could house 300 families here with little issue, but instead it's left to rot because making money is more important than using the structure.
That's true, but unfortunately it's not that simple. Someones still gotta pay the water and electric bills, and health stuff has to be up to code, it's kinda difficult to convert a convention lodge into practical "apartments. "
Not really. It’s actually more cost effective for the local government to run this facility as a homeless shelter or shelter for battered women. This would safer and more decent accommodations than are presently available.
What a painfully asinine opinion...
@@alessandrolira4035 ok
So what. You wouldn't just hand over your property to homeless for nothing either. Why is it that if YOU own it, it's "your property" and if someone else owns it, it's "oh don't be go greedy and give up your asset for 'the greater good'". What a ridiculous thought process.
The Last of Us, the early days :P
Kinda reminds me of an old retirement home I visited during my school work placement week. Everything had been left behind, including belongings, coats hanging up. One door in a hallway had been smashed, but other than that, looked like everyone had just vanished. Was very eerie.
Tru Dat, coming to a theatre near you. Lookin' forward to seeing that film BTW.
It is a shame we have overpriced housing and so many issues related to the subject, yet so many abandoned completely livable spaces like this. This would make a super cool community.
It is cool but it is also just as easily gonna be bought out by another firm to just be made into more upscale living rather than affordable living for the masses
Some rich polycule needs to get this fixed up and turn the buildings into affordable apartments. :P
I live in room 103. We have party's every night. Free rent
@@HalianTheProtogen my business does just this, it's a great solution. Makes us money and helps folks out. Win win
This hotel isn't totally abandoned. Trust me, it is definitely an asset in someone's books. By the time this building was bought from whoever it belongs to, retrofitted with individual kitchens and other essential amenities it wouldn't be affordable. And who knows if the surrounding area has demand for a bunch of studio apartments with no kitchens. Like, how useful is that?
People aren't homeless for lack of living spaces. They're homeless because they aren't able, for whatever personal reasons, to stay the f in a single place without upheaval. Some people's natural disposition is to wander, and that is A-OK. Let go of the insane belief that every single person wants to or belongs in a stationary box. That's blind madness! Give them the dollar they ask for or leave them the hell alone.
Imagine renting one of those convention floor rooms and then right outside your door is the full-blown convention that you'd have to fight your way through if you want to leave your room for anything 😅 And even if you don't leave, everyone is just right there, making noise.
That was my thought exactly. If the noise wasn't bad enough, imagine trying to sneak away from some corporate event after just being done with socializing and everyone being all "ooooooh I see you up there Sally trying to leave early! Get back here you!" Ooof, my worst nightmare.
I never thought of the noise but I did think how freaky it would be to have that indoor pool and convention area outside your window when you wake up in the morning. Yikes! 😬
Happened to me in Denver. Trekkies. Those were some amusing elevator rides.
@@BillLaBrie I want you to elaborate. What kind of hijinks ensued in the Trek convention? :)
Yeah, I thought it was a pretty odd decision to have the room doors open directly onto an interior courtyard. I've seen plenty that have patios that open onto a common area (albeit an exterior one), but the "main" room door would face a more private hallway.
It's so weird to me how a building can receive little to no maintence over 3-5 years and be total fine but as soon as people are no longer around, it starts to decay quite quickly
The key is that there ARE people doing things to keep buildings maintained, you just don't often see it because it's little things, like fixing the small leak in the roof or pulling weeds. Combine multiple tiny fixes over the course of a week, and that's how buildings stay in decent shape for years. What you're seeing is the lack of those little fixes compounded over a couple years.
Plus modern day architecture doesn't stand a chance against humidity. Too cheap for that. Turn the AC off and interiors start to rot immediately.
Houses and hotels are meant to be lived in. It doesn’t take long for things to fall into disrepair
I never understand why they don’t just give the furniture to another hotel. Everything looks so pretty, besides the small indications of decay. The restaurant was beautiful, and apart from a few cracks and dust, it still looks wonderful. The furniture doesn’t look bad at all. It literally looks frozen in time, when you don’t notice the little decays. The architecture is beautiful, and the beds almost appear to be clean. I’d camp out there on a cot, and just enjoy the scenery for a couple days, taking pictures of the almost pristine looking restaurant. It’s so strange to see a hotel so clean, and with little vandalism. I might lay on those made beds, but it would feel wrong to disturb them as they’re frozen in time.
Mostly because hotel furniture is cheap by definition. All of the other hotels in the line already have it, and other lines have their own style and don't need it.
Or did they offer to give anything to employees?
Simply put creditors would prefer to see it rot away or find a buyer rather than to give it to those who need it. Creditors are the worst kind of people out there
Towards the end of the video the narrator says they tried to sell it as a "turnkey hotel," implying that the furnishings came along with the hotel. Been a couple years since then, of course, and it's likely the furnishings have started falling apart on their own.
What hotel would want cheap contaminated furniture that doesn't fit their décor?
I grew up a few miles from this hotel. I recognized it as soon as I saw the placement of the pool in the middle of the courtyard. My family actually had a swimming membership of sorts here that the hotel offered to locals who wanted to swim indoors during the winter. It's a bit odd now as I think back but it was so fun as a young kid getting to swim and play at the arcade in the middle of winter. The arcade consisted of 3 games at the time - one was Asteroids. The restaurant was actually pretty decent at one time. I recall a Mothers Day buffet one year. Sad to see it in this condition but I'm surprised it made it to 2020. It was pretty dated in the 90s when I last saw it. I hope people don't destroy the place while the new owners figure out what to do with it. I think it would be rather nostalgic to stay here on a visit home with my family if they could bring it back to life. I wonder if the area could support another hotel - there are plenty of others that popped up around it - but none with a cool history like this place. Thank you for sharing the video.
What is the location of this hotel?
@@moneyguy2008 You know you can reverse image search in Google Chrome. It's not too hard to find considering some of the photos were pulled off the internet.
Hi. Can I ask where this is? I think I've been here. Ohio PA border ?
@@Matt_from_Floridadefinitely not Florida i4. I grew up there part of the time, there would be palm trees for sure. Part of the "Florida experience"
I remember those Holiday Inns designed with all the rooms facing an indoor pool! So fun for us kids on road trips to swim at night.
3:45 - This hotel was built with an exterior pool between interior-hallway rooms; then the pool was roofed-over to have more interior area.
I have seen *Holi-dome hotels* that are hotels with exterior-corridors, built about sixty years ago; and renovated by roofing-over the pool area.
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@@295g295 Interesting! Thanks for the info! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love old atriums or 'holidomes' in those hotels. I stayed in a hotel like that with my aunt as a child on a staycation. We had so much fun. Indoor pool, mini golf, water features, tropical foliage, globed lights elicit nostalgic feelings for me.
Me too!
I remember staying in them in the late 70’s early 80’s as a kid when they were the place to go. Today’s hotels are so lame for kids compared to what it used to be. You could never leave the hotel and never get bored.
I stayed at a couple “holidomes” as a kid. One in the midwest and one in Colorado. They were very “of the time.” I think staying there is what gives me my love for tacky faux tropical decor in adulthood. 😂
My brother worked as a security officer at this location when the pandemic first happened they and the whole staff would be notified when they could return to work. It never happened! To this day it's still not known why it never reopened and impossible to contact anyone in control. My brother always questioned why they were so concerned about security in this place. He said it was like guarding fort Knox. They spent a third of their revenue on security alone. They had backups on top of backups! Your every move was more than likely recorded!
He said “it’s so quiet”
I sure would hope it’s quiet. I’d be reallllllly scared if there were ANY noises other than his crew. 😅😂
How? It would be more scarier with no noise.
@@Trex91818 personally no, if there were noises you don’t know where it’s coming from it would be scary while when it’s quiet there’s a less chance you think someone’s watching you but that’s my opinion
@@kidc0ress153 for me it's a bit scarier. Because it causes me to not move or else I'll trigger something that's hidding somewhere.
@@Trex91818 Alright! Thank you for sharing your opinion with me! :)
@@kidc0ress153 :)
I get the sense that one afternoon, staff was about working and suddenly just ‘walked out’ by security and the hotel closed (I’ve known of situations like that). Too many things were left as just is. The restaurants, though, seemed to have been cleared out of food. I remember going to conferences in mega-hotels like this, so many attendees with sometimes multiple events happening at once. Like a small city. Weird seeing it still basically in place but void of people. Great video.
My wife had her bridal shower there 20 years ago. I don't remember it being open in December 2019, and we literally stayed right next door.
Sad to see a building like this, but travel priorities have changed, and it would take $3-5 million to get that place up to spec. With as many hotels on that strip, and sandwiched between 2 very new ones, it would be a tough uphill battle.
Where is it?
Yes, location ???
Wayyyyy more than 5mill imo
Very eerie. Hope they do something with it before it gets worse.
Thanks for sharing. ❤
The empty pools creepy and the green water. Wonder whats creepier an empty or full pool
Omg Brenan and the "wheelchair accessible" room had me Rollin 🤣
“You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.”
― David Levithan
This quote couldn't be any truer, than in an abandoned hotel that was lost to the COVID-19 economy, literally frozen in time. Just like the one you have shown. Thank you for filming this video.
Quite a quote, really.
that hits really hard.
Jake, this is crazy. I know this hotel; I grew up nearby. I went there once with my dad in the mid-00's and there was some sort of boring event in the center atrium that I had to be at. I don't remember what it was. I just remember finding the indoor pool afterwards and wanting to go swimming. Probably won't come as a surprise that all that decor was the same back then. Sad to see it like this now.
What city/state? I think it might be near me.
GET. THE. PIANOS. They're right there for the taking, man.
@@Lazarus1095 That would be theft. Just because the place is closed doesn’t mean anyone can go in and steal from it.
@@HeyitstheoriginalKay I'd love to say where, but I can't really give it away in an open comments section
@@vectr0nmusic why? Not like people will actually go to it. Plus people in the local area already know it’s abandoned and will go vandalize it anyway
Great video. Unfortunately the vandalism has become worse and there was a fire last month. The new owner claims that they are going to make changes but none have been forthcoming. The local newspaper has been covering this fairly well.
Location.
@@jamescook9661 Reverse image search the photos pulled from the internet with Chrome. :)
Hello?
You sure do know how to capture the feeling of EMPTINESS! Love your vids bro !! 🙂🙂
its truly sad to see how a building can be let so perfect and get no use. Great video dude. love the content.
Back to the original format of abandoned exploring, love it!
Reminds me of how I was working in a hotel as a network technician just as the pandemic hit back in March 2020. They'd started the year off talking about their plans for said year, and the hopes they had for growth. And then the pandemic hit, so we had to close for what we assumed would be temporarily. Unfortunately the hotel permanently closed down later that year as we all lost our jobs due to financial issues. I still remember getting the message from my supervisor about how we weren't allowed to go back to the office the following day due to the temporary closure, on what I didn't know at the time would be the last day I worked there.
I've been back to that building where I've worked at since then as recent as July of this year, and from the outside it looks pretty much the same, but all the signs of the hotel are gone by now, and I'm left wondering what the interior is like now.
Very cool video Jake. Interesting to see a hotel in the early stages of decay as opposed to many of your other videos like the snippet you inserted in this one.
Just love your channel - great video!!! You’re right, it’s amazing to capture a place like this in a unique stage of decay.
It’s so sad to see a hotel that was thriving to now being abandoned. Wish this hotel would be still thriving.
I love these shorts, so well done in telling the story. His voice is perfect for this!!
This is the first time I've seen an abandoned place video that REALLY accentuated the creepy "liminal space" feel, and the added music at the beginning when they were going through The Grille gave me the most uneasy feeling I've ever experienced. I honestly enjoy these kinds of videos a lot, but yea, this one is the first to give me the heebie-jeebies.
Backrooms vibes in abundance.
Cool video. You said "it's interesting to see a place this early on after being abandoned" like 4 times lol. I'm a building inspector and I've been in a couple creepy abandoned buildings. They are definitely unsettling. One was a midrise office building that had 1 small tenant on the first floor. It had been Compaq computers building but they went bankrupt. I walked around the abandoned upper floors alone and it was creepy. Another was an office tower that had done some remodeling in the basement. Went to inspect it with maintenance guy and we walked through an abandoned basement tenant space frozen in time. The basement had flooded like 7 years earlier during a tropical storm and so all the calendars on the wall were from 2001. It was very strange.
In the Houston area
This would make one hell of an assisted living facility!
So sad to see such a unique place go down, and those vandalizers going in marking it up, so very sad.
Hello how are you doing?
Yep. Trashy graffiti "artists" are pathetic
Very beautiful life and such a pure soul this child. Treasure your elders and live the life you have, in a pure way. God bless you Ahmet
Great video Jake! My first job while still in hs was as a "isle attendant" at our local Marriott. When it was discovered I could cook I was promoted to "omelet boy" as a member of the Sunday brunch crew. I quickly found myself doing just about every F&B job the hotel had and really enjoyed working there. The '90's corporate aesthetic defined my hotel. Mostly business travelers. We also took in many flight crews coming in from international flights. We enjoyed serving all our guests. Over the years I have stayed at hotels like this one and it always brought back fond memories of Marriott when times were simpler.
I wonder if they ever get nervous going in abandoned places. What if you accidentally stumble upon someone's living quarters, or come across a dead body. Its amazing that you risk your safety like this to provide us first hand footage of the abandoned places of America/Canada. Love from Toronto 🇨🇦
And I wonder if it’s still private property and if they broke the law when I see those kinds of RUclips videos.
both have happened if you follow enough urbex channels. And yes, its still tresspassing but if you didnt break anything to enter and dont have any destruction tools on your person the cops will typically just tell you to leave but that is all subjective to who finds you.
unless its florida door, then they will 100% shoot you lol
Shocked no bugs lol
I’m sure they get nervous
I remember this hotel from the 70s. It was at about the mid point when we’d drive from the Philly burbs up to visit my aunt and uncle who lived in Burlington VT. I used to think that place was the coolest kid paradise.
What’s the name of the hotel?
@@Dr-Random it was a Holiday Inn
What city was this hotel in?
Where is this place?
@@tammyboykin5285 somebody told me in New York somewhere
An incredibly liminal space. Great find and explore!
This was pretty cool. High five to the graffiti artists who just chilled out and didn't decide to destroy the place.
Graffiti is destruction of property poor boi
@@danielmorris7648 you know what I mean. That'll come off with a pressure washer.
That was what I thought. It could have been totally covered in graffiti, but it was confined to the pool.
@@danielmorris7648 I'm going to say what is probably an unpopular opinion on this channel: if someone leaves their property abandoned, vacant and with absolutely zero security for longer than a year, you clearly don't care about it and vandals don't bother me.
I understand the market can be rough and finding a buyer and dealing the deal can take months or years but at least hire a one or two person maintenence crew and a couple security guards/measures in the meantime
tbh idgadf about the pool, it wasnt obscene or edgelord satanic shit, and pool liners dont last forever if they've been dewatered
Was truly surreal exploring a location as untouched as this one with so much left behind! Great video as always man!!
Honestly, this hotel is in better shape than a lot of hotels that are still running.
I've watched a lot of abounded hotel videos on here, great find and thanks for filming it. Crazy, how clean and untouched the hotel is .
This is so sad.... when I was a teenager in the 70's, one of my friends had a pool party for her birthday here. This used to be a really nice place! Thanks for the tour and memories.
I Visit a ton of Holiday Inns on Road Trips, so seeing a modern one in a condition like this is very eerie.
this one wasnt a holiday inn
It’s even spookier and more haunting than most of your more decayed expeditions. It looks like everyone just left midshift and I’m so glad you got there before vandals did.
8:50 pool and restaurant photos look amazing!
Holiday Inn had a few of these same convention/hotel with covered atriums spread across the northeast. They did well with trade shows during the week and wedding expos, car shows, home improvement shows, Sunday church services, etc on weekends. The rooms need an update for this to reopen. Figure $10-15K per room times 300 = $3-4.5M and $300K minimum for common areas.
No way that much to renovate and gets these rooms up to par
Been a while since you done a walkthrough, absolutely loved this!
Hope to see another full length documentary from you guys, Closed for Storm was fantastic.
That documentary was great!!
actually i didn't expect it to be this clean and untouched, such a great video love it!
This is so wild! I have always wondered if this hotel was going to make it. I stayed there for work in 2018 and it was very slow and definitely needed a remodel. Also, those buttermilk pancakes were amazing ! :) Great video as always!!!!
Where is it?
@@TedKidd upstate ny
Which hotel was it? Fairfield Marriott?
@@morganoconnor9409 catskills?
@@rahulmoitra4817 Thank you it is so hard to figure out where these places are, thank you
I love your adventures with your crew Jake. You make it so interesting and I love you respect the integrity of the building you're exploring. You just document. The knowledge and research your give your audience... one of the BEST documentary makers EVER! Thanks again for another exceptional piece of art! 😁 Anne.
Thank you so much!
My cousin travels thru that area regularly. He told me that it seems like all the ground floor windows are now boarded up, whereas originally it only seemed like a few were. On his last trip driving past, he saw graffiti showing up on the outside of the building or at least the part facing the road. He won't go inside, due to occasional sightings of police cars nearby, but I can't imagine the inside of the place is much better off.
My cousin said that over the last few weeks, they've seen large dumpsters outside this main part of the building. Maybe they're actually doing something with it. They also finally towed away the abandoned hotel van you saw in the video.
@@draketungsten2854saw it last week and the front burned down
My cousin said somethings going on there. He's driven by it after dark several times over the last two weeks and he said he's seen hallway lights on.
Breaks my heart. So much could be given away. What waste.
Woah it looks like the rapture happened the way everything is in the exact same place. This is spooky and awesome
I like the graffiti artist who made the pool-based puns like “don’t be so shallow” and “it’s not that deep, bro”. If you must, that’s how you vandalise something.
Damn, really cool to see that you've been able to find an abandoned property so soon. It's haunting to see everything just frozen in place like that.
Looks so new in fact, after a little renovation, it could be a perfect temporary housing solution for homeless people.
Just wish there was the resources for that to make it possible.
That pool is perfect for skating!!
Just drain out the rest of the water, grab your board and go. 👍
I stayed in an open and functional hotel in MUCH worse shape than this in Lake Havasu a few years ago. It’s really a shame to see such a nice property go in to disrepair like this. Thank you for sharing!
Yup, I’ve been in worse hotels.
The islander? I’ve stayed at some real crappy hotels in Havasu!
the graffiti in the pool had me laughing
"don't be so shallow"? perfect! lolz
As a local inspector in that county, I remember in the beginning of 2020 inspecting their kitchen right before they closed. They had no idea it was coming. Recently, from what I have been from the local codes department, it has been vandalized so much that no one wants to buy the property. Apparently the homeless were burning the mattresses in the pool to "heat" the place while people have been stripping copper and other valuables out of it for the past few years. It's changed hands a few times but so far no one has actually done anything with it. The other high rise hotel that is adjacent to it also belongs to the facility and has since had a large fire in one of the top floors. I don't believe anything will come of the place as it stands. Time will tell.
The audio that begins at 5:38 reminds me of the Safe Room in Resident Evil.
Great exploration video!
This does a good job of showing why so many buildings decay so quickly when empty. So many little things that add up, a drip here, a broken window there...it's a full time job for more than one person to simply secure a building like this, let alone fix it. If it isn't making money they aren't going to pay a crew six figures to keep it like it was...
Once it gets to the point of no return and they have to tear it down, they just leave it because that cost money too and now at least they have nothing else to lose. You can't steal the land.
So many people don't realize what goes into maintaining a building...especially anything of this size. Including the dumb developers that tend to buy the old hotels on their 5th, 6th, 7th owner/brand name...
There's always something sad and mesmerizing about places like this. Especially one in this condition. I do wish this place gets rejuvenated.
Beautiful place. Sorry for it's lost! I like it very much!
Hello how are you doing?
Great all-around presentation. Thanks. Take it easy.
With such an issue with homelessness, it would be great to see this turned into a community for people to help them get back on their feet. Have counseling on site, maintain a sober living, have it be a co-op to where part of living there is helping to maintain it (cooking, cleaning, maintenance, etc.). It could be a very nice facility for that.
Man, that is so crazy to see an abandoned place in its infancy. You should come back a few years later to compare and contrast. Still can't believe they left two pianos in pristine condition here. I'm going to be honest, when you were approaching one of them in the dark, I was imagining it coming alive with big sharp teeth ala Super Mario 64. Lol
Pls, let us know if anything great happens with this place I am praying that they fix it up and open it back up. It's such a nice place that they can still make money using it. I think it's a shame that a company bought it just to let it get broken into and they are letting mother nature wreck the place. It's either fix it or get rid of it. There is no need to leave it like this. So keep us up to date on its future and keep up the great videos you make.
Why is this so much scarier than buildings that have been abandoned for many more years?
This was a superb video. It was really interesting how it seems that they just up and left the property, and the fact that it still remains relatively untouched.
The thing that I see most in this, is how the whole idea of hotel lodging has changed over the last twenty years or so.
I'm old enough to remember when Holiday Inn started their "Holidome" concept back in the 70's with the indoor pool and play area along with open spaces as well as two different dining areas one for breakfast and lunch and then one for evening dining as well as a bar/club for the adults in the later evening.
Holiday Inn and others were not only looking for the convention bookings, but they were also catering to the kids sports tournament guests as well. There was one that I stayed at several times in the 80's and early 90's just north of Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington that was quite similar. The one big feature to the Holidome experience was the two pools they had were connected with a swim through setion from the inside pool to the outside pool. It was always busy not just because of the proximity to Six Flags, but they were often the host hotel for kids sporting events. You could make an entire trip out of the sporting event, a trip to the amusement park, and a great place for all to hang out at the hotel.
The biggest thing it shows is the change in the way people travel. For most, the hotel is no longer the destination. You can see the change in that a lot of places no longer have restaurants and clubs, they have a continental breakfast since there are so many dining and entertainment choices outside the hotel. The major chains took a page from the Motel 6 playbook, made the rooms smaller, and cut out all the extras.
As usual Jake, a great video, and a glimpse into the way travel was and will probably not be seen again.
My last day at the double tree hotel was march 15th when we all got sent home and denver was hosting the high school volleyball national tournaments that weekend at the denver convention center it was canceled about 15-20,000 were expected and my last day.
3:52 real backrooms vibes. You get alot of inspiration in these shots- who ever thought that whatever architecture they make have a shelf life? At least in the sense that it once fulfilled a purpose instead of it’s physical structure.
It’s sad that in two years it coming apart, I don’t understand why they let it go and not re open. I heard stories of this place, that ppl were asleep when everyone was being notified that they needed to abandon the hotel due to the pandemic, I believe this story is to this hotel cause I seen same hotel in other videos.
Beautiful and sad to see this decay. I hope somebody reopens this building.
Reminds me of Pripyat, like one day people walked away expecting to return but they never did. As though a catastrophe happened, and I guess one did.