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This about brought me to tears. I remember going to those types of hotels as a kid in the eighties. Looking over the upstairs balcony at night with all the lights was amazing. I miss those days. God the nostalgia. Awesome job man and keep up the good work!
I always feel such melancholy sadness seeing these places just left to decay...can only imagine what these walls have seen .... thanks for your explores! Always enjoyable!!
T. Carpenter-Pelletier I always think of some family who bought these franchises with big plans to make it their life's work. Hopes and dreams dashed.
Yeah you imagine the people that stayed there glad to find a room who enjoyed the pool/courtyard and those that worked there.
You nailed my feelings exactly, T. Carpenter-Pelletier!
these places werent bad back then actually, Ive been to some a long time ago and Holiday Inn used to have ones like this too. They would even have arcades and waterslides
Yes i feel the same way as you to be honest, looking at all these abandoned places that were once a healthy and thriving concern and a place for people & families to enjoy just being dumped and left to rot away into the passages of time, this is a very bad sign of not only places & buildings being abandoned and left to rot away but the fabric of society and the human race as we know it the world over and that is truly TRAGIC! on a MONUMENTAL! scale 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
I used to pick up the swimming pool samples here weekly for lab testing. The pool was shut down for close to six months after a man was found dead in the pool one morning, I believe he passed out and drowned. After they reopened the pool one morning when I stopped in to pick up the sample there was a biker lady od'ed on something laying on a beach chair. Two biker guys came in and literally dragged her away! One of the seediest chain motels I ever had the misfortune to have to stop at!
Greg Funk was it in the 80s when this happened?
Geez!!!
No those incidents were in the late 2000’s.
Oh.My.God 🙀🙀🙀🙀
Where?
my family used2 love goin2 "holidome" atrium type places when i was young - circa late 70s thru 80s. we wouldnt even leave the hotel. mini golf, pool, billiards, ping pong, foosball, & of course, pac man & centipede, or maybe some table top asteroids or donkey kong...i remember watching michael Jackson's thriller video (back when MTV played music) 4the 1st time in one of these places, the entire packed atrium ran2 there rooms 2 watch it, kids were screaming it was on... talk about the good ole days, miss this type of thing, extremely nostalgic rite now, jesus - I'm literally almost crying.
Yes. They were mini-resorts unto themselves. My wife and I were in our early twenties when we found the Sheraton in Danville, Pennsylvania. In 1978 the structure was less than five years old and everything was in top condition. I remember the first time we stayed there in July of '78 we hurried to get settled in our room and then change into our bathing suits. The roof was open about halfway and when we were floating on our backs looking up there were a few clouds in an otherwise clear blue sky. I can actually recall that moment as I think of it now.
@@TralfazConstruction Sounds so lovely. My family never did anything like that and we would have loved it.
9:38 "I actually remember having one of these TVs"..Haha we all remember dude.
9:19 is the tv relaxing room...where tv's gather to get away from people for a while, to sit back and not be constantly stared at. This was a 'special' night for the tv's where finally they could spend time without drinks, food and humans forever. The Guest speaker on this occasion told the audience to keep quiet as the uninvited intruder passed by with his camera.
That was awesome! You're brilliant
Those beds are sharply made up for the next guest, it just seems like this abandonment was not planned and they had real pride in their hospitality.
Like, didn't they tell their housekeepers, "after today's guests leave, you don't have to make the beds"? How sudden WAS the closure?
Mold maybe?
Hell that looks better then some of the red roofs I've stsyed in this year!
When I find more interesting the rest of the people that have explored it and the homeless that have trashed every other room left some of them perfect
This use to be a very nice, colorful, & fun hotel to stay at! When I was young, the corridors' carpeting was really colorful! Last time we went back to Danville, it was run-down with bland carpeting & kinda sad.
Brings back lots of memories!
This place is just outside Danville, PA. You can see it from Interstate 80 eastbound.
It really sucks that cool places like this are going away. What I remember during my childhood. Those days are a thing of the past now.
Seeing all the damage makes me sad. This is the remnants of a beautiful place. Love your videos. Keep them coming!
I live near there. In the 80s and 90s it was so much fun to stay there. They would have special brunches and dinner there for certain holidays. It's sad. I absolutely loved staying there.
Gryffindor 4life Can you tell me what city this is? Just curious--not going to vandalize the place.
Lucky!!!
It’s in Danville pa. I wanna to go in so badly. But no way would I go by myself .
Anthony Z I don’t get notifications, sorry. It’s in Danville pa
Gryffindor 4life stayed here as well in the early 2000s, had a great time sad to see it like this :(
Its amazing how quickly these places deteriorate!
they weren't built to last, that's the problem.. flat roofs, wood and iron construction, all recipes for a short lifespan
Yeah, as soon as maintenance is stopped on the roof it goes downhill quickly.
Yep give it only a 100 years after humans are gone and it will only be the ancient monolithic structures that will be around, unfortunately hardly anything in our modern society is built to last
I watch your videos when I'm having bad anxiety they are so relaxing thank you
I appreciate all the time and effort it takes you to locate and travel to these locations as well as produce and edit the videos. Keep up the great work.
Alty thank you!!
It always blows my mind how wasteful we are. So much of that stuff could have been used.
happycrickets the drains are still plugged with pubes, thick black pubes
Yeah that’s right!
Well that's what we have come to sadly, from a world that used to conserve literally everything to a world that just does not care anymore and just throws it all away DISGRACEFUL!!! & SHAMEFUL!!! 😩😩😩
Thanks China! That's where the world wasting things began once everything was made there roughly 20 years ago.
I use to explore places like this in the early to mid-80's as a teen around my Home City with my friends. We used the old 8MM film cameras and old Camcorders to do it, along with Polaroids. Still have the footage and pictures locked away.
I would love to digitize it all and put it out on UA-cam... don't know how though - I am a musician, not a tech person.
The Wheeled Headbanger check online, usually if you send the tapes off they will put it on a DVD for you.
Looks like that was a heck of a nice hotel in it's prime.
I think the saddest part is the rooms that are all still made up and just waiting for guests that will never come again. What a waste.
I know Im kinda off topic but does anybody know a good site to stream new tv shows online?
@Bobby Emory i watch on Flixzone. You can find it on google :)
@Avi Arturo Yea, been using Flixzone for since april myself :D
@Avi Arturo Thanks, I signed up and it seems to work =) I really appreciate it!
@Bobby Emory You are welcome :D
Fascinating video.
I'm amazed that the business & property owners just left everything behind like that. Just all of it. Typically when companies go out of business or close down locations they liquidate all their assets. But this is like some post-apocalypse movie where everyone just vanished and everything else is left as it was the moment the disaster struck. Creepy.
Usually when places close right after Christmas, it means they're completely broke and hoping to make one last payday before shutting down. You find that in malls as well.
After 4 years and it already looking like that wow
great job..i love the atrium with the fountain and pool..its a shame no one took over the place and kept it up..
Who came from exploring with josh to see how good it was
Adrian Garza I did
Adrian Garza me too!
same
Me
Me!
Just found you. Love it. Steady cam and no crap talk. Just like "Dan Bell - Dead mall series"
With all the homeless vets in our country that need support. Why isn't our buying places like these and using them for temporary housing.
These places cost way to much to keep up- that's why they end up closing. They can't even be supported by having paying customers- I don't see how these can be transformed into temporary housing. There are far more economical ways.
I kinda like the micro housing idea. But at 40 grand a crack. Seems a bit out of touch.
You make a good point on the upkeep. But I'm guessing our govt. Spends way more money on way worse ideas. Has to be some way to help the people that give everything for us.
Exactly, i am sure with the proper manage ment and the addition of some wind turbines and solar panels and batterypacks and rain catchment for water one could cut the cost of running a place like this way way down and thus make it more doable to mildly renovate into homeless, handicapped and verteran housing that could make it, and as i pointed out above at over 200 rooms from the looks of it most anyone could afford 200 a mnth rent for life and fifty a mnth for all maintenance anywhere on premises then homeless have somewhere can aford even if working part time, as well as vets and retired disabled folk plus that atrium would give them a place to socialize and have fun!!! And The Maint savings could go for roof leaks heat and air replacement, pavement, pool, etc!!!!
Trust me . If I had the money to do something like that I would I a second. Could charge a low low rate. And have mandatory drug testing..use the the conference rooms for group get togethers like aa and other group therapy. Have a shuttle available or two, to get tenants to the VA or clinic, grocery store, and other things . Maybe contact local sit down restaurants and instead of them throwing their food away, donate it to the shelter at night to be set up on an open buffet .donate any space available like extra rooms or conference rooms to be used as headquarters for veterans charities , have some kind of support set up for depression or suicide prevention, but at the same time don't force any service on anyone. I don't know how I would do it , and I'm sure I couldn't do it alone, but I'm sure I could get it done and make some kind of difference. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this. Maybe someday we could all put our heads together and come up with a plan.
They could at least donate furniture, bed linings, lamps, decor and everything usable to the charity stores before shutting place down. So much waste...
by the time you dry cleaned it and paid to transport it to someone who needed it it would be cheaper to buy new and give it to charity. This is why you and I don't own businesses.
You are so right. Beds are usually built-ins, but there is chairs, tables bed linens. It certainly is a shame, someone could use that stuff.
@@RubberWilbur Hell with that. Open the doors and tell people come get it.
@@Biker65 then you would get sued by the people you gave it for free because they got mold poison or they fell and hurt their leg picking it up at your property.
There are good will stores that would gladly send their people with trucks to pick up stuff.
Such a cool place ... it is sooo eerie to see it in this state.... it looks like it once would have been a cool place to vacation at.... so sad
Why do the roofs always fail so quickly? It's like the buildings know they are abandoned and they just give up. I loved staying in Holiday Inn Holidomes when I was a kid.
For sure, but it's amazing how quickly buildings begin to have catastrophic failures when they are abandoned. That hotel was open only a few years ago. Check out their Facebook page. It's amazing how quickly it changed.
Flat roof designs(cheap and such overall but with up keep the costs a less than a slopped roof. Add to that they have drains that get clogged. So standing water adding hundred of pounds of weight pushing down on structure weakening it. Every picked up a bunch 5 gallon bucket with few inches of water on it? Imagine that spread out and multiplied across the distance of the support beams, now add the weight of the tar and gravel which is usually built up and not stripped when a leak repair and/or maintence cycle happens.
The basic build up of materiel is tar and rock which seeps after it has "cooled & dried" from the heat, think slow molasses level but once water has a path, it will use it. The ""hyrdo-lic"" (sic) force is amazing. It seeps in and the rooms and building . The ones that have no air flow, get double hit with humidity water/moisture when it condenses when temperature cools to dew points. Adding to the dampness which starts the growth of mold which holds moisture and so the cycle gets worse and those spores move around and settle elsewhere. Starting new colonies.... Notice the mold was out of the most sunlit and open air areas? The stagnant algae in water lowest point collecting pool being the exception...... The pool is also deeper in the ground which is is a cooler surface temperature due to the earth and more physics which are longer to explain. This is already a novel length reply in today's world, sadly.
Props to @RNK +RNK for a great video and so details. Being an old Urban X the days of needing to protect such places by not menting them has gone . Since most can be searched amd the local kids who would vandalize it is already known spot. People scattered around the area that would drive there, are more likily to take photos than anything else. Although the risk of exploring abandon places both urban and rural is an issue that will continue to plague us sharing our hobby. No pun intended.
Because of the wide change in temperatures, freezing in winter baking in summer. They fail from inside out. Like painted interiors.
these places are sad. reminds me of something out of "The Omega Man". I am blown away with the rooms with the beds made up and stuff still on the nightstands
Bobby
Bobby S has
there's still sperm in some of the rooms from the 70s, a buddy of mine went here in 1977, said back then everyone had so much pubes, u didn't have to wear slacks to the lounge, just rest the sac right on the warm vinyl stool, resting in a thick sweaty patch of black pubes....yuck
I am in love with this place!!!
its definitely up there in cool places ive been. not much graffiti just mostly water damage and the copper pipes taken out.
Agree! Taggers have not messed up the place and looks like there is very little broken glass. The perfect explore...with just natural decay.
Where is it? (I am too lazy to look through all the comments to find out :P)
It is a shame to see such a waste of awesomeness though.
Yes it does have a charm to it... especially that atrium area. I wonder where it is? 2013 wasn't that long ago either. I wonder if anybody who has stayed there can share stories?
I've been watching all of these places that have been abandoned and it brings me to tears, beautiful homes, hotels just forgotten.
I grow up near there. We would go their for the holiday brunches they used to have. When we had out of town guest, they would stay there. It was an awesome and fun place. It's sad what has happened to it.
I don't about this place but it sure looks like an abandoned Days Inn just off interstate 80 in Danville Pennsylvania.
It is in danville pa
Gryffindor 4life: how long has it been abandoned?
Crazy how companies, still in business, can just walk away and leave all that stuff.
NO 1 They write it off the books after they close, they don’t give a shit. Isn’t owned by a person it’s owned by an entity..
It could have been a franchise that the owner died or turned over to the bank, or had their franchise rights revoked. I worked for a Holiday Inn whose owner had the sign bagged.
shaun tongate that's capitalism buddy
unit entierly Days Inn's are privately owned. They are a Franchise. The person buys the location and uses the Days Inn Logo until its paid for then the owner can name it whatever they want or continue to pay Days Inn to provide them with contractual products, and keep using their name.
Yup, they should be required to maintain a demo fund for the off chance the place tanks. Let them draw off interest but always maintain enough to level the place.
It always makes me think of the homeless when I see these nice place empty. Wish we could give them a home like this. Nice find, great not seeing it vandalized too. Love the before picture. It's amazing that many of the plants are still growing. Blessings
I wouldn't call that one a nice place, the roof is leaking and there's black mold everywhere. Pretty dangerous.
rainingmoon7 again with the homeless crap!
Who would pay for it?
Charles Murphy Homelessness is obviously not something you have faced. AND it is not crap it is a fact!!!! I live in Florida and I see the homeless living in the woods all the time. They lived under the interstate passes in the islands within the interstate...and after Irma so many do not have homes.....SO Excuseeeeeeeee me for having a heart for people that might need our help.
Eargesplitten Loudenboomer I would pay for it if I could, right now my house is full, thanks to Irma
Man I love these videos! I used to be a hotel housekeeper for years and seeing a place like this I could have potentially worked at makes it so much more spooky, mysterious and interesting! Thanks for the video!
I'm a GM for a major hotel chain, if the building is old, there comes a time were upkeep vs profit is not worth the cost, sad! Great explore!
That's a big issue with any real estate and it's because of accounting laws. In a brand new facility, the costs can be depreciated over a number of years (usually between 10 and 15 years). But maintenance costs can not be depreciated. Those costs hit the books as expenses in the year they are incurred. This makes companies hesitant to do major repairs because they are expensive but cannot be depreciated. I think the accounting laws should be changed so that maintenance of certain kinds can be depreciated. You'd see a lot more places like this hotel lasting longer. It's such a waste.
It comes down to poor management that doesn't address maintenance issues right away. I saw it at stores when I was a manager at Taco Bell years ago. One store I took over was only a year older than the store I came from, but looked 15 year older due to it not being properly cleaned and maintained. The managers just didn't do their jobs. I spent over 10 grand fixing the store up. After I left the next manager ran it into the ground where they had to gut the whole place about 10 years later.
There is no excuse to just walk away from a place like this hotel. Instead you make enough repairs to sell it and if you're doing repairs as you go along you won't need to spend a bunch of money. There is a motel here in Houston on the northside called Gulf Wind. It has been there since the 1940s, even though the area is rough now and has been for a number of years, it is still in business. Down the street there is another motel that has been there since 1980, it has changed names several times, but is still in business. Sadly they both will probably be closing and be demolished in a couple of years due to the freeway being expanded.
BTW I just put a new roof on my house too. My house was built in 1984 and is in good shape, because I maintain it.
billybassman21 I agree to a extent.... Let's say though... This place was in business for 15 years, a brand new more modern resort opens up 5 miles away, your occupancy drops from 90% to 30%, you now don't have the budget to run the place, let alone remodel. I swear no offense indented, but a resort like this is a bit more expensive than gutting a Taco Bell, or a single family home. 10g would not have even done the lobby, or just the bar, or more than 10 rooms, or even just the TV's that were piled up! I know, just dumped 1.5 mil into my hotel a year ago, (only 125 rooms) and didn't even replace all the furniture like night stands and credenzas! 2 years ago the pool and deck was almost 20g. I do understand your point though, just a lot of factors neither of us know, but I can promise you, if revenue dropped at a TB like that, it would be a Filibertos a year later! :)
chconnol that makes ZERO sense. Companies want depreciation because it is a "fake" expense along with amortization. Maintenance is an actual cost. It is charged to the books in the year it was done. It is usually unexpected and very expensive to do those major repairs, often more that the original cost, and when it goes unplanned for, the cash flow can't support it.
It’s all about greed, America, what a failure!
As a few others have mentioned, I think this was originally a Sheraton Inn. Ironically, we have one that is almost identical sitting abandoned in Evansville IN. The exterior is slightly different from a remodel in the late 1990's but our hotel started out as a Sheraton -->to a Ramada Inn-->to a Holiday Inn-->to a Clarion Hotel. It closed up on Dec 26th, 2014 with absolutely no warning. It too sat with all of its contents inside all the way down to dishes on the restaurant table. The pool atrium at this particular hotel was really cool. The hotel still stands today and has since been emptied of its belongings but the hotel itself remains in really good condition for a property that has been sitting abandoned for a few years now. I have been told that the franchisee that owned it simply ran out of money and could no longer afford to operate the hotel. Might be something similar to what happed to the Days Inn here in this video.
+Heath Gross
Now that would, should be one then we have all been fussing about!! It should be turned into facilities, mico apt. For homeless, disabled and vets who cannot afford a lot but would stay somewhere if it didnt cost a lot!!! And i was saying they could charge $100-$200 a mnth for life pluss a $50 a month fee for maintenance and put in some wind turbines, solar panels ion lythium battery packs and rain catchment to help offset the utilities and make it off grid or self sufficient, except for sewage and could turn some of the atrium into garden beds or aquponics gardening and rasing fish, raise some chichens and ducks out back of the property as well and you'd have a whole self sufficient little community would need much help from no one!!!
@@theducklinghomesteadandgar6639 As of November 2020 the former hotel I mentioned back in 2017 is still standing abandoned. Nothing has been done to it and sadly the exterior is starting to show the near six years of abandonment/neglect. I can only wonder how the inside is holding up with the "holidome" style roof over the pool and the flat roofs over the main structure and room wings.
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I find it sad to see 2 homeless people sleeping on the cold concrete outside, and all those empty beds just sitting there, fully made and abandoned. I´d have shown them where I came in so they could keep dry :(
Gina not very good conditions inside, healthier outside
Well I wasn´t expecting you to awnser me in person..totally fangirling now lol. I LOVE your videos...just binge watching them right now :D
They would definitely be sick from toxic black mold. Or possibly die.
I just found your channel today (9/30/2018). I've now been binge watching for almost 3 hours. I love that you don't mess with stuff, break stuff, or take anything (like so many other UA-cam explorers). Thanks for keeping it classy.
I love this one it reminds me of when my bro and I would stay there in the 80's with our family. Great memories. This is so cool thanks!
All those empty beds and a homeless lady camps outside. Cool video. Thanks.
She can't sleep inside ..all that black mold could make her sick. Homeless people aren't stupid they know it's safer outside
yah the mold and also the collapsing ceilings
prob take some of the beds and move them to a area not as bad and crack a window or so
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@@blackhatter011 I'm sure you eat caviar every day, NOT. Assholes like you have ZERO respect from people like myself, you're quite hateful, you don't know where she's came from in her life.
" getting ready to replace tv's" lol ...probably cleaning it out before they closed is more like it
The way everything was just left like it is make you wonder if the closure was sudden.
Love all the time you put in getting different views/angles and incorporate them into great transitions. The TV screen bit is great.
Great video Robb. I also felt like that roof was about to cave in at any moment!
A real shame that it can never be brought back to what it was. It would have been such a fun place...
Such a shame to see this once beautiful place, just rotting away. Looking at your video gives me the feeling that there were a lot of fun times at this place and a lot of precious memories made within this place. Thanks for sharing. Great video!👍🏻
What a fantastically done video. I ran into this by chance and it certainly made my day. Sad and eerie to see the rooms waiting for the next patrons that will NEVER arrive. Puts one in mind of the end of the world type frame of mind. I use to go here for our TRW Christmas Parties. What a fabulous time we all shared here. This was one beautiful jaw dropping scenic Inn. I fondly think of many a GRAND time at this location. Thanks kindly for your wonderful captivation of Days Inn days gone by. Stay well and safe.
Hate when people just abandon shit, not even an attempt of an estate sell, countless good items just set for ruin, sad
I love it!! Great video!! Rooms looking almost perfect, then rooms looking apocalyptic. Was a really nice place at one time. I would love to get ahold of someone about those 70s looking bar stools. ❤ them!! Another great video. Thank you & stay safe. How's yr wife doing?
tamara walker she is great, be back soon. Thank you!
Yes, another one of his great videos. He really has a great style to both explore and explain these abandoned places, making us want to accompany him on his tours. thanks! And thanks again for not swearing in this one! Please keep doing these videos!
I loved this ! I love how you do your vlogs... Really calm and no screaming out of scary places...and YOU really look at everything, carefully ! ( also loved the Will's House ! Freaky ! )
Okay take it easy and keep your panties on
If there was a place like that in my town, it would have been over run with tweekers and transients and would have eventually been burnt to the ground.
Only 4 years?! That looks like it was abandoned for at least 10 years, maybe even 20 years with the looks of some of the rooms.
It must be from all the heat and moisture that's rotting it so fast. Seems like there's no salvaging and would have to be demolished.
Some parts of the really decayed areas look like something I would see in a Silent Hill game.
Beauitful sad it's left to rot away. Still could be fixed with alot of t, l, c, spot of money spent on this place years ago. Love your videos.
This place is 100% done now, way too much water damage. Pretty much once the roof goes the place is totaled.
Rena Smith if it’s even worth doing
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Absolute truth. It would be cheaper to tear down and rebuild, rather than slapping bandages and using bubblegum to repair. Rebuild is much wiser.
I loved this exploration. The place is intact, not vandalized and only the erosion of time is noticed in the. I love!!
Love it when you put the camera in one screen and came out another. Great editing. Creative video
@ 4:14... "Pluming" this is why it was abandoned.
might have been a place for little plum trees
pnkflyd66 lol
I agree. That's what they get for leaving idiots on the payroll.
pnkflyd66 I saw that too, and I thought, "Well, that sure wasn't the work of a spelling bee champion!"
I was hoping to find a comment like this! Faith in society restored, at least a little bit ;)
This would have been the nicest Days Inn I have ever seen...
Matt Johnson I think so too
I wish I was in the area to enjoy a nice couple days then that hotel before they shut down it seems like it is a real nice place or it was a real nice place and most Days Inn's don't look that nice
so nostalgic and oddly sad. Not in a bad way, but kind of a gentle melancholy way. Makes me think of my childhood family trips, I guess. Thanks for posting!
I remember staying at a days Inn just like this in Toledo Ohio when I was like 5 years old in like 91 or 92. It was a cool hotel. Me and Dad took a crane truck up there to get worked on so he wanted to stay somewhere that I could keep busy while they where working on it. Sad to see these places are no more.
Such a beautiful place!
For those interested, you can see an identical hotel that is still in operation if you search Clarion hotel, New Cumberland, PA. These were built by Sheraton in the early 1970s. This one in New Cumberland became a Holiday Inn in the 1990s, and then a Days Inn some time in the 2000s, and now Clarion. I remember it still had the 1970s look the last time I stayed there in 2002, but now appears to have some updated paint in the neutral tones. Interesting to see a sister hotel abandoned.
i just took your advice and looked at pictures of the operational hotel. very weird to see a similar hotel in pristine condition after watching this abandoned video.
As a kid my parents would rent the suites near the pool every New Years to party with relatives. This place was hoping back in the 80's. It was beautiful back then. Thanks for sharing. Brought back some great memories.
Wonderful find, thank you for taking us on this journey/ adventure
It's a huge shame it was let go that long. Initially it could have been redone into small apartments.
Or a shelter for homeless.
thanks for the shout out!!! i really appreciate it. the video came out great. im shocked the homeless didnt come inside to get out of the rain.
journey_with _jay thanks for the info! Pretty bad inside, i dont blame them for staying outside
where is this place ??
RnK All Day they could of taken the blankets outside tho and pillows?! At least be comfortable, really enjoyed this video, have now subbed to the channel, can't wait to watch more of your videos xx
journey_with _jay I would've brought cushions or a mattress out 😄
+Coley227 yup better than cold cement
Another great place you shared with us Robb. Keep up the great work. Take care.
I used to stay here a few day every summer when my family would visit Knoebels. I remember the mini golf, pool and game room fondly. So strange to see it rotting now. Great video
that airwalk boot though...it's sad and creepy
This makes me sad, like they just gave up and walked away
Takes me back to the "Dope Days", of back when I was a little kid, going out of town on family vacations. Great explore video!
I love the style that you film your Explorations in. I can't watch a lot of them because the people move the camera around too fast and it actually gives me motion sickness, plus I really want to take in what you are showing us, so thank you for keeping the camera on one area for a while 😊
It's mind boggling that a modern building can succumb to rot so quickly. Maybe it's the reason it went out of business in the first place?
I'd bet it was run down, it looks like it was run into the ground and they probably came to the point of invest in repairs or shut the place down and chose to close.
GoogleMinus Yeah, if the roof was already leaking prior to them closing down it's easy to see how the water damage could have this severe of an effect on the building already.
The US is dying.
oh yeah good idea, from italy we have a lot of refugees to send in US. Due for your dirty business in africa.
Did some research and none of the refugees are the result of America. Most of it is the result of the Syrian civil war, that came out of the Arab Spring.
Very interesting and rather eerie. Surprised you can get into the building and if it isn't all locked up why hasn't all the decent stuff been looted?
Great find Robb, crazy how the beds are still made 😲👍
upalevel productions spookiest part
Used to stay here as a kid on trips to Knoebels. Sad to see... lots of good memories with my cousins playing mini golf and swimming here.
i would love to see some original photos of this place :-)
It just hurts me to see it look so badly unkempt. I just want to imagine me walking through that place as it was still good and new ;(
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I’m so addicted to watching these abandoned hotels. So fascinating.
Once again you train your observant lens onto a ceratin period in history as it drifts slowly into decay. And It was as always highly enjoyable!
looks like it was having roof problems when it was closed
Agreed. I'm sure that was a major contributing factor to it being abandoned
Thanks for good camera work. Makes it so much better to watch!
Another great find. Your videos are the best by far! THANKS Robb
arfizzrazz thank you
This reminded me of a place I stayed in at the grand canyon 10 years ago
Damn this place is unreal
TPAC FILMS it
Thank you for sharing! Days inn of that era were orignally holiday inns that were retired, my grandmother was a holiday innkeeper. The atrium was called the holidome. The true test of an original holiday inn design is if the bathrooms have a vent mounted on the wall between the shower and the toilet curtain eye level. Other signature feature is the heat lamp mounted in the bathroom another holiday inn first at that time.
I loved those heat lamps!
Holy cow! I'm pretty sure that my family and I stayed at this hotel back in the day. The atrium with the fountain, put-put, and several pools positioned in various spots. Yeah, it was one of a kind for sure!
Too bad that it was deemed unrepairable and left to rot.
one of the best abondoned explorers on youtube excellent as usual
Dale Jenson thank you
Obviously that's what closed it, the roof/water damage. That bucket and tarp with a drain hose in the lounge made it clear that the roof was in really bad shape even before it closed. Right after Christmas they saw what it would cost to bring it up to code and said, forget it, close.
Really enjoy your videos. I am hooked.
Take care and be safe exploring for us. Blessings to you.
Thanks for the passage back in time Rob I stayed in places like this when I was younger
This place looks like it was an awesome place to stay!
I wonder what happened???
So sad to see it just slowly rotting away...
Like most constructions water management wasn't a focal point sorry for us American dreams the mold comment so sad for the humans that are in effect
This could house so many homeless people. So sad to see this place goes to waste.
barbara timmermans what do you do to help homeless people?
With all that black mold, even I wouldn't stay inside.
Heel Charisma maybe, but has she donated a hotel? If not, then she has no right to criticise the hotel owner.
+tnecniv *That the place could house the homeless and it is sad to see the place go to waste are true statements not a criticism of the owner.*
No, they don't need the health problems of black mold. Serious stuff.
It's amazing how table cards and condiment stations are still filled up, beds are still made, pillows are fluffed up. It's like they bailed in the middle of a work day.
To think that someone made that bed, fluffed those pillows, but they would never be slept in, but would just sit there years untouched.
Thanks for sharing this!! I remember back in the day as a kid and my parents staying at some of these. This really brought back some memories!!!
Yes! We stayed at the Holidome in Navarre Beach, Florida many times. As Robb said, although it was closed in, on a beautiful beach, there was a strong natural attractiveness to the atrium setting. Much of Jaws2 (easily forgettable) was filmed there. Hurricane Katrina ruined it.
That place is cool. I bet it was very nice yrs ago!!
Frontenac hey I used to work there when it was the inn on the river. Lost the best western . they closed due to a fire. Got bought by New owners it's now a four points Sheraton
Is this in Oregon? Looks like a place I stayed at back in the late 90's.
Marybeth Schriver you look really good.
Very Beautiful Hotel.When it was in Operation.Now its just plain trashed,with all the furnishings and things still there.I am glad u went there by yourself,it makes you Brave and not scared to go alone.Whenever you feel like you just need some time alone investigating places.I would do the same thing,if there were places like that where I live.Keep up the good work.😄
P.S.Your Cute
Such a magical location, I love it. The beat is dope on this one too. 😎
This looks like a particularly creepy example of how quickly things go to waste if not maintained. However after doing some research I found that this hotel must have been pretty run-down already before it closed and the roof was probably already leaking. There seem to have been a lot of complaints because of mold, cleanliness issues, the pool that hadn't been open in a long time etc. My best guess is that when Sheraton sold it it was already in need of work and below their standards and then as a Days Inn it was just run into the ground and closed when it became unbearable. Sad, must have been a nice place once.
You showed that room filled with TVs, there are other things stacked elsewhere in the building like mirrors, paintings, lamps and mattresses. I think none of those things are of worth but still they might have ramassed them because someone thought about using them elsewhere or selling them. However some of the rooms still have their paintings etc. so it's still strange. Can't really imagine they thought about putting in flatscreens because if my theory is correct they must have known that the hotel's days were numbered. Some parts of it - i.e. the breakfast area and the rooms you showed where the beds were made - look as if everybody just left one day within a minute. Does anyone know facts?
It really is creepy! Almost like a natural or nuclear disaster evacuation, where no one returned. If it was black mold THEN, shouldn't there have been actions taken to raze the building and disinfect? I don't want to speculate about corporate tax write-offs and the like, but geez. I just think of all the employees. What were they told? BOOM, you're laid off, thanks, goodbye. Oh, to know all the backstories on this!