Yeah the general formula is the Orlando parks are for the kids, the hotels and it's resorts are for adults and let us relax and unwind after spending all day at the parks surrounded by screaming kids.
My parents took my daughter along with my younger siblings and my parents really enjoyed it that was 4 years ago and my mom still talks about it lol I’m so glad my daughter got to enjoy that right before they closed.
@@mynameismmandimheretosay7979 god please I'd use 70000 dollars just to buy some plushies and shit Nintendo how much money Even though if they did it'd probably be in Japan only waaah
@@mikaeruu0309 There could be a lot of demand in California or Florida, I think. Sanrio stores already grab a lot of interest. Americans enjoy Japanese culture and Nintendo is a big household name here. There's a Nintendo Store in New York City (ua-cam.com/video/C_oJAEGzpI8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=NintendoCadeGaming) and maybe if they branched out they could garner the appropriate interest in a small resort or kids' place, but Nintendo promotes gaming for *everyone*. Their target audiences are people 6 to 30 years old probably.
Fun fact: The time capsule contains not only a video of the ceremony that created it, but the camera that filmed it...not because the camera was viewed as a potentially interesting relic of the time, but because the hosts gave up on getting the tape out of it.
I went here once and probably my favorite memory was walking up to the spongebob costume guy and saying this “Remember when you went to Shell City and died?” A worker came up and said “Yea I don’t think spongebob remembers that”
I have a horrific memory of throwing up in our room’s bathroom at this hotel, there was a crazy mural on the walls. Every time I close my eyes the dad from the wild thornberry’s is still grinning at me
I love how he was reading the names of the characters that were at the hotel, the same way how a substitute teacher would read the names of the foreign exchange students.
Mo Bamba true! Disney knows their guests would enjoy eating food from their movies hence the creation of the Be our Guest restaurant (also they have a Lady and the Tramp themed Italian restaurant on Main Street USA, at least in Disney World)
i remember being a kid and desperately wanting to go to the nick hotel. i was so upset when my grandma took me to disney instead, in hindsight that was the best thing she ever did for me
My parents gave us the choice between the Nick Hotel and Disney when I was 8 or 9. I picked the Nick Hotel, and my brother agreed, because we were Nicktoons kids, and honestly? I don't regret it that much. Sure, going to Disney earlier could've been fun, but I ended up going to Disneyland for my senior trip later on, so it's not like I missed too much. However, if I had chosen Disney instead, that would've been it. I could've never experienced the Nick Hotel, since it ended up closing, and it honestly probably wouldn't have been as fun for an older kid anyway. I loved the Nick Hotel as a kid!
I stayed at this hotel in 2018 as the result of a booking mixup. It was so bizarre, I had a 3 bedroom suite to myself, and you could still absolutely tell that it used to be the nick hotel even though all the branding was gone. It was like stepping into a grim alternate version of 2004.
The fact that they had an adults only love room implies that they fully expected adults (with no children) to show up to a kids' themed resort just to boink each other. I don't know what's more terrifying, that or the fact that at least one of those rooms has definitely fulfilled their intended use at least once
Probably a good thing they didn't have any of the characters in there. I mean, could you imagine banging your loved one well Dora is on the wall staring at you the whole time?
I mean lets be honest. Alit of he concepts and characters from kids shows especially the ones aimed at very young children were just straight up weird especially seeing the mascot costumes of said characters irl like ming ming or the bubble guppies.
I remember going here as a young kid with my family. Probably the most memorable experience was when I showed my small SpongeBob plush to the guy in the SpongeBob costume, and he threw it on the ground and stomped on it thinking it was “plankton in a SpongeBob suit”. My dad found it hilarious but I was mortified 😂
The decor of this hotel is like all of the worst decor trends of the early 2000's had an unholy orgy. The strangely proportioned lobby, the faded-crayon wall colours, tacky murals, plastic school chairs, and THOSE BEDSPREADS.
2018: Kevin sarcastically wonders why the Nick Hotel's honeymoon suites didn't last long 2022: Kevin discovers that multiple children were conceived on a Garfield dark ride
I like the joke of Kevin slowly not recognizing the characters during the costume presentation, but immediately recognizing an obscure character at the end
Kinda shows his age, I was a child in the mid-00s so I distinctly remember MingMing and The Backyardigans. I grew out of nickelodeon by the time Umizoomi, Bubble Guppies, and Paw Patrol came around.
For characters like Danny phantom and Aang why didn’t they have normal people in costume like most Disney characters?? That way they could actually talk and interact with fans and would actually look cool instead of terrifying
Sounds like a cool idea, but they'd have to hire a twelve-year-old to play Aang all year round, which would be tough from a legal standpoint. That, or an Ember Island Players type situation with a short bald lady. "Avatar state, yip yip!" You get the idea.
Honestly, I think the whole Nickelodeon theme stuff would work better on a cruise ship than as an actual hotel. Think about everything Nickelodeon Hotel had, then think about it being on a cruise ship. It would work so much better.
Well, yes but no (not trying to make the meme). One of the biggest problems with the Nick Hotel was how immature it was, and nothing for parents. The problems would most likely permeate on water.
@@kieravermeal9127 And also...all it takes is one weird freak incident of a kid falling off the edge and disappearing forever. Although it doesn't seem to be a problem with Disney Cruises.
Main problem is cruise ships are too damn expensive to build or refurbish. They weren’t even willing to put in the money to renovate their decaying hotel, imagine them having to manage and operate a cruise ship. It’d be a disaster.
I suppose that explains the difference in quality of pre-Spongebob Nick and post-Spongebob Nick television programs. After that soulless trash became more popular than god, it's like the studio threw in the towel.
@@ShroudedWolf51 yeah, I've switched to c (which in all honesty isn't to far away from Nick on the shittiness scale) for my dose of daily family animation.
I am utterly floored by the Ming Ming character costume- it so freakin CUTE. Not two feet away is dead eyes Dora, and yet somehow Nick created the single best character costume I've ever seen! I would totally go up and hug her as an adult, hell I bet teenagers would too!
right??! i still have my ming ming stuffed animal because she’s just such an adorable and endearing character from my childhood. her costume was probably the only part of this video that made me regret not going to the hotel. nick really knocked it out of the park for her
@@s.o.m3241 Honestly, it woke up childhood memories of watching WonderPets in the background. Never learned the characters' names. I also remember the Backyardigans and Team Umi-zoomi, but I do *not* remember the designs. (The yellow hippo was the Backyardigan I remembered, while all I remember from Umi-zoomi is that cheerful little cry, I swear I hear it every time I hear something that vaguely fits the rhythm of the word.)
first thing they missed out on a burger restaurant theme based on the krusty krab, second thing was that a blood stain I saw in one of the hotel photo's at the end.
Leanne Deetz Good point. Since I was five my parents would take me to Hershey Park every summer. For a majority of the times we stayed at the The Holliday Inn Express. A few of the times we ended up in the same room. Recently when we were there, we came home from dinner to find ants all over the tv stand, a solo cup that had a drop of my grape juice in it, my moms licorice that she left open and the beds. We asked room service to get rid of the ants the next day via calling the front desk. My dad was still in our room showering and my mom and I headed down to the kitchen for breakfast and mom asked the lady at the front desk if they will send someone to get rid of the ants while we were at the park, and the lady said that there is someone up there now yet we were just up there and my dad was in the shower. We came home from the park at around 10pm and there were still ants all over the room. And the most annoying part, were on the third floor and that is a room we ended up in at least twice. In conclusion, DON'T TRUST HOLLIDAY INN.
@Daniel Kintigh they're still mammilians like humans, have diseases that are stronger because of those animals environment, and this wasn't even the first outbreak of sars. really, the only difference is that people didn't capture animals and sell them for foods or luxuries as much
I wanna vomit everytime I hear someone say that Paris is the most romantic place in the world. Try again sweetie, the Nick hotel honeymoon suite is far better in every conceivable way.
I got married next to the pizza hut express at this hotel and spent a passion filled night in the adult suite before it was discontinued. The experience was highly underrated. We enjoyed all 25 inches of that television.
i heard it’s coming back to orlando!!! but i really hope they keep the original 2000s design, and not with whatever crappy shi the new nickelodeon theme is. old/kinda old nick hits different (i’m only 14) most new nick commercials and tv shows are so dumbed down to cuteness and stuff, and not THIS PEAK DESIGN AND ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!! i was diagnosed with autism when i was about four, and spongebob is my #1 “special interest”. and yea, that means i want the creepy ass costumes back too. either way, the only point of this comment is that: if they don’t have the original interior and exterior design of the resort the same if it does open again, ITS A WASTE OF MONEY (half joking)
I mean one of the physically biggest characters on that slide was Aang, from a show that ran 2005-2008, I mean it's one hell of a show, but the show didn't have much longevity for new kids who hadn't grown up on atla.
Compared to the construction and operation costs of the resort, replacing the characters every few years is worth pennies on the dollar if it would keep guests coming in
They also had an immortal sponge and the Fairly Odd Parents outlasted the theme by about a year, but those are the only exceptions that I can think of.
"Would have been neat to have stayed here once" I say seconds before images of the rebrand pop up, in which I realized this is exactly where I stayed on my last Orlando trip.
Sometimes I like to think about how in one hundred years some one is going to find that man made pond in the back of Nick hotel with the Dora statue and it'll be all old and shabby and covered in Vines and people will think it's some sort of horrific grave site or shrine
I still crack everytime at the fact that Kevin broke on the "Bubble Guppies" and not Pablo. Like Nickelodeon had so many cool and creative character names, like TMNT, Spongebob Sqaurepants, Paw Patrol, and then there's Pablo. Just Pablo.
SpongeBob: Oh Patrick I had a bad dream let's meet kids! Patrick (on drugs but still in his normal voice): Ok let me just get this menu off the table and we're good SpongeBob. Also Patrick: *knocks it off like he does in the video * Me and SpongeBob: *confused laughing*
Feels like there's a missed opportunity for the employees. Imagine if the employees got to act like Squidward & verbally say how much they despised the guests & they could get away with it by saying they were staying in character?
i actually went there when i was young and i gotta say, not so fun after a day. i was very excited as this was my birthday present, but to be honest everything there stunk but the water park, which as a kid was very fun. i promise if you didn't get to this resort, your not missing out on much.
Megan Weller I stayed at it when I was 4 trust me you didnt miss much a lot of the big activities like game shows and the real sliming were lottery basically like when I went out of a crowd of prob 300-500 my brother got picked which made me mad
It's a little fuzzy, but I stayed there when I was 5. I remember the red bunk beds, and finally staying on the top bunk. But you're not missing out on much. I really just remember being chased by a squirrel, being slimed (which was awesome by the way), and the food court. 3/4 of those experiences were nice. But most of the time we were at Disney World. All we did at the hotel was dipping in the pool, eating, and sleeping. (which is all four/five year old me needed) But it's quite sad that it's gone. I wasn't even aware of it being closed down until now.
I stayed there for my tenth birthday in 2006. The ads for the place really got to me, and I was desperate to go there for months before it opened. I don't remember it super well, but I made it to both of the pools, got slimed (I remember being disappointed that the 'slime' was just green water, and clearly not the stuff from Figure it Out and the like), and spent a lot of time at the arcade. The first day we got there, me and my brother saw some lava lamps available as prizes in the arcades. They were some of those thousand-ticket prizes no one ever actually gets, but we both wanted them, so we made a pact not to spend any of the tickets we won at the arcade on anything else. You need to understand, for a ten year old, that is a trial. There were a lot of temptations, but I knew I was only going to get that lava lamp with all the tickets I would get during my time there, so I used all of my willpower and finally managed it. I bought that lava lamp on the last day I was there, and I still have it now.
god, this is my favorite defunctland vid. while there are plenty of other equally high quality, high effort productions from this channel, no other subject is as intrinsically deranged as a nicktoon hotel with a damn honeymoon suite.
I went here as a kid and there was a lifeguard at one of the big slides who told the kids when to go down the slide with time in between so we wouldn’t hit each other. The lifeguard was on his phone and just said “go,go,go” without any time in between kids. I noticed this and waited even when he said go to me and he got furious and started screaming for me to go over and over again. I went and hit a kid that was sitting right near the bottom of the slide. One of the worst experiences for me while I was there😭😭
You’re too good 😭 I’m assuming that’s the net one you climb up? The lifeguard when I was there told me to wait. I think it was just me and one other kid swimming that day
omg the same thing happened to me, I went back in maybe 2012-2013 and the life guard told me to go maybe 7 seconds after another kid, lucky we didn’t hit each other on the slide but when he was under the water I ended up going super fast and running him over 😭 my dad screamed at me and I hid under a towel for the rest of the Time we were at the pool
6:26 As a wedding photographer, let me just say that you cannot even imagine where some people want to get married. Plus, almost as a rule, if you own a large indoor space and you are not using it for industry or warehousing, you're probably renting it as a venue on the weekends. It's just a natural consequence, it seems. I've shot in so many nasty old "shabby chic" defunct factories and the like, what people want is always far more strange than you'd think.
You’re lucky, at the flower shop I work at we only get regular old country club and hotel weddings. The the most interesting wedding venue I’ve set up was at a university, nothing like a creepy old factory I have some interesting funeral stories though
@@froggers8945 One time I was transporting this massive casket spray (a big arrangement you lay over the casket) and 2 bouquets to a funeral home. Usually I don't actually go inside the funeral homes, just to the loading dock. I unloaded the casket spray in the usual place and opened up the packaging, revealing some brown leaves and bruised petals- I'll prune them later, I told myself. When I got back to the drop off area with the other bouquets though, the casket spray was gone. So I freak out, like did someone steal it? I had to find it or my boss would kill me. I closed the loading dock door and headed into the funeral home. I knew the funeral director was somewhere around, and that I was in the area that guests weren't supposed to go. I was a sketchy looking high schooler so I was worried that I'd get in trouble because I was too awkward to explain what I was doing back there- I just wanted to see if it was put a bit further inside, no talking if possible. I prowled around, trying to avoid the funeral director and to find the damn casket spray. I found it: on the casket. That was a relief, now I could prune off the ugly shit. But when I got close to the casket I realized that it was open, and poor Elsie (I remember her name because I wrote a condolence card from someone who sent the family a bouquet earlier that day) was lying there, clutching a rosary, looking very stern and very very dead. Ok, I thought, This is creepy. I'll just pretend she's not there and prune the leaves I guess? Is it disrespectful to prune a bouquet directly over a corpse? No choice. I got to work aaaaand a leaf promptly dropped into the casket, directly on her face. I swore and considered just leaving it there- is it more disrespectful to leave a leaf on a corpse's face or to take it off? Maybe I could just... blow it to the side so that nobody could see it? I really didn't want to reach into the casket... Well, sucks to be me, again I had no choice. So looked around to see if any family members or the funeral director were around to yell at me- clear. I reached in (and if I was worried I'd be too awkward to explain why I was in the funeral home before, imagine how anxious I was to explain why I was elbow deep in a casket) and grabbed the leaf. I couldn't do it without touching her face- upper lip to be exact. Squishier than I expected. I did a couple circles around the casket to make sure I got all the ugly leaves and stuff off and then booked it out of there. The funeral director was actually in the loading dock. He gave me a pleasant wave, and I responded with a curt "hey" and then I fucking left lol
Everything about the resort, the orange colors, the attractions, the claustrophobic yet large scale, all of it gives the place a slightly unsettling and eerie vibe... I can't really explain it.
Could be worse. At least The Clock Man (Eastern European Cartoon Short aired on Nickelodeon in 1979) wasn't much of a thing outside word of mouth and some Gen X-er looking for it. The Clock Man on those bedroom walls would have prompted many a visit to therapy for anyone who who stayed there
If 'The Shining' is ever remade, I want it to take place at a Nickelodeon Hotel, and all the ghosts are replaced by mascot characters, one of whom must be Jimmy Neutron.
I find it absolutely hilarious that this place has a honeymoon suite. Can you imagine asking someone "where did you go for your honeymoon, Paris, the Caribbean, Vegas?" And they reply with "the honeymoon suite at the nickelodeon hotel, we had breakfast with Dora and SpongeBob too"
I can just hear a bit of disappointment when he said Fanboy and Chum Chum. I mean...he's not wrong to be disappointed? -M I N G M I N G D U C K L I N G-
Raymond Gallant Lol, me too, I felt a ting of jealousy if he really didn’t know who they all are. I tried to ban Sponge Bob early on in my house, but I eventually caved. Paw Patrol is the only one I could stand, but Puppy Dog Pals on Disney Jr. has taken that spot. I admit I even watch it sometimes after my sons fallen asleep and it’s still playing 😋
The fact that they didn't do much with the original Holiday Inn look besides paint it orange really gives "college needs more dorms so they repurpose a Motel 8" vibes
The Cosmo and Wanda suits look like those creepy, bobble-head looking character costumes that you'd find in a Disneyland parade photo from the 1950s/60s.
When I was younger I stayed at this hotel and I loved fanboy and chum chum when I got to meet them I ran right up to them and hugged them the logo on there chest was hard plastic and I hit my chin on it and it hurt like heck
Funny story. Years ago I was in Florida at a business conference and my parents decided to fly over so we could all go to Disney world. My mom was in charge of booking the hotel. She booked THIS hotel. She had no idea what Nickelodeon was, so driving up to Jimmy Neutron's giant head peering down was quite a shock. When we checked in the lady asked if there were any children. You can imagine the look we got when we said no. My mom thought she was booking a two-room suite. My "room" was the bunk bed kids room with a curtain for a door. Three grown adults with no children at the character breakfast buffet was pretty hilarious. We ended up doing the 4D show and getting slimed, though. She has never lived it down lol
@@dtxspeaks268 i really don't crap man i just like how it looked and the vibe was fun which is a hell of a lot more than i can say of the new hotels even if the new hotels are, frankly, objectively better, the old one was more nickelodeon. (also, did you seriously reply to two of my comments just to specifically hate on me? thats kind of sad)
I stayed there as a kid. According to myself and my siblings, it was a blast and we genuinely loved it. According to my parents.... It was a disgusting, booger hellhole.
i stayed there in 2016 while they were making renovations. it felt like we were the only guests there. it seemed like i was in a weird alternate reality where everyone had disappeared and i was just wandering around this abandoned, nostalgic hotel
i'll never forget my intense 12 year old disappointment when the bucket of "slime" at the pool i waited all day to be dumped on me was food-colored water.
@@DCol real slime "you can't do that on TV" had a base of apple sauce and oatmeal. The powder has replaced it on TV shows and was at the stage. So really depends on your opinion. They two times they made the apple sauce mix a person from nickelodeon flew into Orlando to make it, only 12 people in the company knew the recipe. I worked in purchasing/the storeroom at the hotel and ordered what they needed, so I know what was in it but not the ratios. Had to sign a NDA.
It’s wild. I was part of the Disney College Program in 2016. The company sponsored apartments were right down the road from the Nick Hotel. Our busses to get to and from work (Disney properly traveled right by the hotel’s property. I remember always being intrigued and wanting to visit on a day off of work. It’s surreal to think I was admiring this property from afar quite literally in its final couple of months.
@@thehamburgler6970 You guys are thinking of the large segments of the wall, the ones with full murals. Small pieces are really common, it was a huge wall, you can get them for less than $50.
I went towards the end of its days. We stayed in one of the deluxe SpongeBob themed rooms. I have 4 distinct memories. 1) there was a statue of Blue from Blue’s Clues and I took a photo with it even thought it had sitting water that had grown algae 2) we were sold on the “kids club” by being told they had edible slime, it turned out to be applesauce dyed green. 3) there was a competition to be slimed where kids had to pick out their moms’ feet from a lineup 4) someone peed in the pool and we all had to get out
It’s shocking how the hotel couldn’t do the absolute minimum of what should be expected from a hotel. Clean and updated rooms. If you can’t even keep rooms clean then nothing else matters. Especially for hundreds of dollars a night.
Absolutely. How expensive can a routine maintenance be? Schedule it in a way that every room gets inspected by an engineer who at least repaints and redos those nasty spots. Of course, some of these can be fresh - I guess if it's themed at kids, especially like younger kids, and mostly seems to be also aimed at bigger families, then you'll have to repair every suite every three months in order to keep it up to date. And you're still paying off that 18 million dollar renovation from earlier... But some of these look like they were neglected for weeks to reach this state. Like, the torn mirror or the torn curtain can be literally from a previous stay (or... their own, if they try to blame the family before them...) but the state of the fridge and the stove at around 15:56 show that that's probably not the case. These are years of neglect, there's rust that's well settled, it doesn't do that overnight.
@@TheWinjin You don't even need an engineer. Just quality housecleaning that knows how to place a work order, a decent pest control guy once a week, and enough maintenance to keep up. Then again, it would also be EXTREMELY easy for Disney to price you out and poach your management.
As someone who frequently travels to Florida for work, and basically lives out of hotels all over the country most hotels look like the pictures shown later in the video. Florida is incredibly humid and it's hard to maintain the "brand new" look of a hotel. Mold, bugs, peeling paint, etc. can be commonly found in even the nicest hotels in Florida due to the humidity. You also have to consider the primary demographics of people who would stay at a kid-themed resort - kids. As a father myself, kids are incredibly messy and destructive. Adults aren't much better but at least at a hotel more geared towards regular adults, you don't see trim pieces pulled off of walls, peeled paint, stained furniture, etc. Yes, housekeeping should do a good job but there are some things you can't change, such as the messy nature of kids.
@@ericg6886 yea messy kids don't cause five year old rust and if they did they still didn't upkeep the hotel as it should have been. you probably tell your kids it's ok to be a little shitstain cause someone will come and clean up their mess kids can be messy and you should be a parent and teach them not to be such a fucking slob
I stayed here in 2006 and I gotta say, it was the best weekend EVER. As a kid, you LOVE the cheesy stuff, character rooms, and the water park! Getting slimed was a dream come true. Being local, my parents had taken me to Disney every year, but staying at the Nick hotel was by far one of the best vacations of my childhood. I was so upset when I saw it closed 10yrs later because I knew how exciting it was to go there.
So my family took me here for my first trip to Disney World. I had been begging to stay at this resort because I loved Nickelodeon, so they booked it as another surprise for me. We got there and I instantly felt a little bit eerie, and I don't know why. The pool was closed and I cried because I was so excited to be slimed. There were no character breakfasts, very crappy food, and the toilet didn't even work in our room. So we left and went to the All-Star Music Resort at Disney World and it was SO much better and now whenever we go to disney world we stay at a disney resort. and we also left the nick resort within two hours lol. And the only characters that I saw were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who were walking around in the GUEST AREA and they looked really creepy.
omg I remember literally begging my parents to take me here when I was a kid and I was so confused why they always said no. As an adult I can see that that would have been pure torture for them
I remember going here as a kid for a girl scout trip in like 2009. The general vibe I remember was that the kids room themes were not updated at all... like they still had rugrats/danny phantom/my life as a teenage robot rooms when these shows ended years before. or at least taken out of primetime cable slots for kids, so you could only see it at night. i feel like if your target audience are kids between 5-10 years old, why would they be interested in something that ended when they were like 2-5 you know? and probably haven't seen or remember the shows? also could be that I was a salty 9 year old who didn't get the a:tla themed room lol
This is also something I would agree on, even if I do love classic nick, I feel like they were too dated, hell why the f##k did they put up pictures of rocko in a repaint they had in like 2013, when his show was basically the first Nicktoon to be cancelled
12:38 I espescially like how that time capsule starts off _extremely_ depressing with a piece of the Berlin wall, and then almost everything else is just kinda fluffy
Our son BEGGED us to stay there in 2010. The rooms were musty, wet carpet, smelly, small and gross. The reception on the TVs was like something from 1960...SO BAD! The pools were nice, the show where they slimed people was kinda cool, there were a lot of characters running around to take pics with. The food at the resort was TERRIBLE and over-priced and so was the service. It was like a Motel 6 experience compared to Disney. Our youngest son was 8 and enjoyed it. We stayed in the Sponge Bob room. Our middle son was too big to fit in the bunk beds and ended up sleeping in the living area. I slept on top of the covers with my clothes on. It felt like something was biting me the entire time.
Delisa Richardson That sounds horrifying lol. Funny when you’re a kid everything is awesome you don’t notice the shitty things in life because you haven’t existed long enough to have a frame of reference.
I don’t blame you for being annoyed, from what I saw on those images it definitely looked very uncomfortable, unconditionally dirty and unstable, I wouldn’t want to stay at a place like that either.😳😑
At least you did it for the kids so they can have fond memories of looking back and remembering how much fun they had, lol. What we put up with for our kids...
See the blood on the mattresses here? Guess what that is? Probably bedbugs. Maybe lice, too. I would have called Visa 30 seconds after I got my bill with piles of photos and disputed the charge... Every fix here looks totally half-assed.
For some reason, the fact that this place at one time had a honeymoon suite is the funniest part. "Where did you guys go for your honeymoon?" "We went to the Nickelodeon Hotel!" "Huh?" "Yeah. When we consummated the marriage... WE MADE SPONGEBOB AND JIMMY NEUTRON WATCH!!"
My friend Rachel went there when I was in middle school. She won some competition where she got to find out the secret ingredient to Krabby Patties. Apparently spongebob told her it was pickles. Lol
For some reason the hotel commercials also aired is South Africa. Probably one of the main factors that made me believe i lived in the USA when i was 5
I remember being at the hotel and seeing a dead squirrel in the pool, somebody said it was the real sandy and a bunch of kids started crying
bro this had me laughing for like a minute straight
That's horrible but i can't stop laughing
funniest shit I've ever read, oh my god
RIP Sandy.
The fact the most recent reply is like 20 minutes ago is the best
The place looked like a blast for children but an absolute nightmare for adults.
Yeah the general formula is the Orlando parks are for the kids, the hotels and it's resorts are for adults and let us relax and unwind after spending all day at the parks surrounded by screaming kids.
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My parents took my daughter along with my younger siblings and my parents really enjoyed it that was 4 years ago and my mom still talks about it lol I’m so glad my daughter got to enjoy that right before they closed.
I wonder what the Cartoon Network Hotel is like inside
nick stores: too risky
an entire resort + hotel: perfect
Why can’t Nintendo do that, I’d love a Nintendo suite hotel with the Nintendoland store inside of it
@@mynameismmandimheretosay7979 god please I'd use 70000 dollars just to buy some plushies and shit
Nintendo how much money
Even though if they did it'd probably be in Japan only waaah
@@mikaeruu0309 There could be a lot of demand in California or Florida, I think. Sanrio stores already grab a lot of interest. Americans enjoy Japanese culture and Nintendo is a big household name here. There's a Nintendo Store in New York City (ua-cam.com/video/C_oJAEGzpI8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=NintendoCadeGaming) and maybe if they branched out they could garner the appropriate interest in a small resort or kids' place, but Nintendo promotes gaming for *everyone*. Their target audiences are people 6 to 30 years old probably.
@Simple Weirdo time to convince my parents to take us to NY 👁👅👁 thank u for letting me know 🎶🎶
did you know they made a theme park in Minnesota
Fun fact: The time capsule contains not only a video of the ceremony that created it, but the camera that filmed it...not because the camera was viewed as a potentially interesting relic of the time, but because the hosts gave up on getting the tape out of it.
imagine the camera's batteries leak and damages the capsule's content
a real sad fail
There’s that cringefail Nickelodeon I know and love
That's hilarious
That is first rate shit haha
I went here once and probably my favorite memory was walking up to the spongebob costume guy and saying this
“Remember when you went to Shell City and died?”
A worker came up and said
“Yea I don’t think spongebob remembers that”
@Thanos You are such a madman
I think you gave him PTSD flashbacks dude
Thank you Thanos. very cool
This is my new favorite UA-cam comment. You are an absolute madlad
@@dylanslemp4069 Mad Titan
I love how he says the parents room is unthemed as if he’s disappointed
If I was a parent, I would want to ram my significant other in a Ren and Stimpy themed room.
@@trueforgottenfool3139 absolutely
My parents would watch SpongeBob without me sometimes, they'd be mad if they didn't have a themed room guaranteed
As he should be.
I want to bone down while Dora whispers in my ear and teaches me anatomy in spanish
They missed a huge opportunity not calling it the "Nickelode-inn"
Damn
no no no NICK-TEL
Yall pun ppl gotta stop
MilkFriend damn yeh no shit!
the puns AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I have a horrific memory of throwing up in our room’s bathroom at this hotel, there was a crazy mural on the walls. Every time I close my eyes the dad from the wild thornberry’s is still grinning at me
absolutely smashing
my mom got a stomach bug when we stayed at this hotel too what did they put in the water lmao
@@rtrolite If the bucket's any indication, probably green slime
@@Carsian genuinely made me laugh
my brother shit his pants at the resort. thats the only thing i can remember lmao
I love how he was reading the names of the characters that were at the hotel, the same way how a substitute teacher would read the names of the foreign exchange students.
...and Little Bill
M I N G M I N G D U C K L I N G
*"the bubble gupp ees?"*
Millie, and Geo...of Team Umi Zumi?
*flatly* Teen Age Mut-ant Ninja TurTles.
As a kid I thought this looked like heaven. Now, this looks like a special kind of hell
Demon Days of Vinyl just thinking about all the other kids screaming gives adult me a headache
Demon Days of Vinyl the hotel looks like a drug dealer motel..
Haha right
@@HaggisDruid lmaoooo
Lilith Aubrey 🤣🤣 Imagine They were mad at you while Being Dressed As Mr Krabbs I would’ve Slam the front Door
Not having a “Krusty krab” restaurant where kids could try the “krabby patty secret formula” was a true disservice to the guests
Mo Bamba true! Disney knows their guests would enjoy eating food from their movies hence the creation of the Be our Guest restaurant (also they have a Lady and the Tramp themed Italian restaurant on Main Street USA, at least in Disney World)
I don't think Hillenburg would have wanted them to sell actual Krabby Patties anyway.
Krab burger
@@gennybaratta2460 and let's not forget the Pizza Planet Restaurant!
Carter Marcelo true
a kid in 2005 having their own private room with a TV and a playstation was PEAK luxury bro
I was born in 2008
@@evatroniclover0026Good for you!
@@evatroniclover0026ok
duality of man
@cosmicsatanas no u
i remember being a kid and desperately wanting to go to the nick hotel. i was so upset when my grandma took me to disney instead, in hindsight that was the best thing she ever did for me
She saved you from horrible rashes I’m sure
My parents gave us the choice between the Nick Hotel and Disney when I was 8 or 9. I picked the Nick Hotel, and my brother agreed, because we were Nicktoons kids, and honestly? I don't regret it that much. Sure, going to Disney earlier could've been fun, but I ended up going to Disneyland for my senior trip later on, so it's not like I missed too much. However, if I had chosen Disney instead, that would've been it. I could've never experienced the Nick Hotel, since it ended up closing, and it honestly probably wouldn't have been as fun for an older kid anyway. I loved the Nick Hotel as a kid!
Same
@@lavenderhumanWHAT?
Grandma is a real one. ❤️👵
“So honey, where do you want to be married?”
“I was thinking the Nick Hotel.”
What if 🤔 we got married 😘 at the nick hotel 😳 jk jk 😂 unless?.... 😳
Harley The Doggo LMAO 🤣
Imagine about to kiss your crush but Jimmy Neutron just runs in.
Both me and my fiance are certified shitlords. I'd see myself get married there just to troll the family, lmao.
I am anonymous however you say it Hi “Jimmy get out! I...gotta blast...if you know what I mean”
I hope to God that they had a plaque saying "We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request."
*mr krabs*-that's a bad idea, trust me.
Dr. Earthworm Robotnik HAH
@Patrick William i hope this is true.
I’ve been there before, they don’t By the way, now it’s a holiday inn.
I wish they did have that. How funny would it be for someone to try and recreate the episode and get kicked out?
I stayed at this hotel in 2018 as the result of a booking mixup. It was so bizarre, I had a 3 bedroom suite to myself, and you could still absolutely tell that it used to be the nick hotel even though all the branding was gone. It was like stepping into a grim alternate version of 2004.
Even more grim than the actual 2004?
I’m curious. How could you tell it used to be a nick hotel if the branding was gone?
Grim? 2004? Everything post 2014 is the grim shit
@@digamejhWhatcha talkin' about? 2004 was awesome compared to everything from the 2010s onwards
Please, how did the mixup happen?
Imagine trying to call for room service but the voice at the other end just says "No, this is Patrick"
Underrated comment 😂
I would've said "I hate all of you" as Squidward.
I really hope someone did that.
And he would say “and I’m not a Nickelodeon suites resort”
So many missed opportunities
The fact that they had an adults only love room implies that they fully expected adults (with no children) to show up to a kids' themed resort just to boink each other. I don't know what's more terrifying, that or the fact that at least one of those rooms has definitely fulfilled their intended use at least once
Just remember, someone could have been conceived there
“Mum, where was I made?”
“Oh, the Nick Hotel”
“😦”
Yk what once I'm married imma conceive my children on the nickelodeon hotel fuck it
Probably a good thing they didn't have any of the characters in there. I mean, could you imagine banging your loved one well Dora is on the wall staring at you the whole time?
Maybe with so many children around they might say “what the hell let’s have one”
boink
I love he gets more and more confused at all of the costumes, and then he just calmly says "...and Little Bill."
hi rivers can u make a song with drake
I mean lets be honest. Alit of he concepts and characters from kids shows especially the ones aimed at very young children were just straight up weird especially seeing the mascot costumes of said characters irl like ming ming or the bubble guppies.
Weezers blue album was iconic
I’m sad he doesn’t seem to know Ming Ming. I would love to get a photo with the legendary duckling herself
@@engelberthovel8566 I thought that was the bird from Stuart Little 2.
I remember going here as a young kid with my family. Probably the most memorable experience was when I showed my small SpongeBob plush to the guy in the SpongeBob costume, and he threw it on the ground and stomped on it thinking it was “plankton in a SpongeBob suit”. My dad found it hilarious but I was mortified 😂
Bro he must’ve been fired 😂😂😂
@@fintonioclips naw if i was his boss he would've been given a raise
@Chimera I would make him the boss.
Always keep the paying customer happy
b r u h
The decor of this hotel is like all of the worst decor trends of the early 2000's had an unholy orgy. The strangely proportioned lobby, the faded-crayon wall colours, tacky murals, plastic school chairs, and THOSE BEDSPREADS.
when you said “orgy” my mind went straight to all the mascot characters f***ing.
I bet it happened well at least I hope not
Careless Craig literally the decor of the rooms is the worst part
Jayne Strange Don’t forget the small TVs.
@@sarahlilly1745 LOL, yeah, the small tvs are pretty funny, especially since it's literally a tv show themed hotel, yet their tvs are tiny.
Man. imagine getting a wake up call from Zuko.
"You have to wake up, huh? That's rough, buddy."
“Hello, Zuko here.”
"Wake your family! Tell 'em, "I've found the Avatar!"
14-year-old me would’ve simply died to be woken up by Zuko lol
*yo fuck zuko I want momo to wake me up*
*Phone rings*
"What in the godda-"
"We're burning your room down"
Nothing says "sexy time" like ramming each other while a cut out of a Nick character smiles at you.
imagine getting called by Patrick the morning after.
@@onelividguardsman5681 He's gonna ask if mayonnaise is an instrument or not.
💀
Are you feeling it now Mr.Krabs?
Dora approves of your matrimony.
2018: Kevin sarcastically wonders why the Nick Hotel's honeymoon suites didn't last long
2022: Kevin discovers that multiple children were conceived on a Garfield dark ride
what
Pause
@@watery_soap45 ua-cam.com/video/KK3Yr80lPOY/v-deo.html
Huh?
sus 🤨📸
The Mr. Krabs is objectively the best meet and greet character. I would hop right in line if I saw that wandering around Universal
Jenny Nicholson I always wondered if you liked these types of channels being a big theme park enthusiast! Cool to see you here.
+Randomfools I also wondered what kind of comments she would put. I was not disappointed.
same
Jenny just makes me so happy and I have a fever right now and am missing band camp so it's very needed.
What about that sweet Paw Patrol meet and greet? Idk how you're rating Krabs above that, but you're wrong.
*imagine getting married and then getting a wake up call from patrick star*
Imagine waking up next to Patrick star
the gaming doggo I can only dream...
Or calling down for room service the next morning
"Is this the front desk?"
"NO, this is PATRICK!"
ItzAdamIsNoob I would be screaming
*WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO*
"the parent's room was unthemed" no wonder it shut down.
LOL!
Really? I think they'd just throw darts at the wall and be like, "Ren and Stimpy! It's the farthest kid-friendly thing we have..."
Or perhaps Little Bill! *Laughs in John K and Bill Cosby*
I know, right? If I have to take my kids to the Nick Hotel I expect to see Timmy Turner watching me and my husband sleep at night!
That and little to nothing for parents
I like the joke of Kevin slowly not recognizing the characters during the costume presentation, but immediately recognizing an obscure character at the end
Kinda shows his age, I was a child in the mid-00s so I distinctly remember MingMing and The Backyardigans. I grew out of nickelodeon by the time Umizoomi, Bubble Guppies, and Paw Patrol came around.
Little bill is obscure? 😭
I think the joke of Lil Bill being at the end is acting overly casual for a character based on bill cosby
@@bobsonny OH YIKES
@@RedxRiot He certainly hasn't had the staying power of Fairly Oddparents or Avatar.
For characters like Danny phantom and Aang why didn’t they have normal people in costume like most Disney characters?? That way they could actually talk and interact with fans and would actually look cool instead of terrifying
Sounds like a cool idea, but they'd have to hire a twelve-year-old to play Aang all year round, which would be tough from a legal standpoint. That, or an Ember Island Players type situation with a short bald lady. "Avatar state, yip yip!" You get the idea.
@@tuxedobike4067 that would actually be kind of great if they just went full ember island and hired like a big body builder to play toph
@@ollieno971 YES
@@tuxedobike4067 they could hire a shorter woman. It would be fine
Still better than Sora (a character being from Nick's rival company) being a face character. Though both costumes are still accurate.
Honestly, I think the whole Nickelodeon theme stuff would work better on a cruise ship than as an actual hotel. Think about everything Nickelodeon Hotel had, then think about it being on a cruise ship. It would work so much better.
Well, yes but no (not trying to make the meme).
One of the biggest problems with the Nick Hotel was how immature it was, and nothing for parents. The problems would most likely permeate on water.
@@kieravermeal9127 And also...all it takes is one weird freak incident of a kid falling off the edge and disappearing forever. Although it doesn't seem to be a problem with Disney Cruises.
Norwegian tried it for a while
Main problem is cruise ships are too damn expensive to build or refurbish. They weren’t even willing to put in the money to renovate their decaying hotel, imagine them having to manage and operate a cruise ship. It’d be a disaster.
Wow...
You are right...
"They feared that too much merchandising would conflict with the brand's goal of appealing to kids." Yeah that held up well
I suppose that explains the difference in quality of pre-Spongebob Nick and post-Spongebob Nick television programs. After that soulless trash became more popular than god, it's like the studio threw in the towel.
@@ShroudedWolf51 yeah, I've switched to c (which in all honesty isn't to far away from Nick on the shittiness scale) for my dose of daily family animation.
Now there’s a lot of merch for sponge bob, paw patrol and blues clues
I am utterly floored by the Ming Ming character costume- it so freakin CUTE. Not two feet away is dead eyes Dora, and yet somehow Nick created the single best character costume I've ever seen! I would totally go up and hug her as an adult, hell I bet teenagers would too!
right??! i still have my ming ming stuffed animal because she’s just such an adorable and endearing character from my childhood. her costume was probably the only part of this video that made me regret not going to the hotel. nick really knocked it out of the park for her
@@s.o.m3241 Honestly, it woke up childhood memories of watching WonderPets in the background. Never learned the characters' names.
I also remember the Backyardigans and Team Umi-zoomi, but I do *not* remember the designs. (The yellow hippo was the Backyardigan I remembered, while all I remember from Umi-zoomi is that cheerful little cry, I swear I hear it every time I hear something that vaguely fits the rhythm of the word.)
When I met Ming Ming as a kid I was SO HAPPY! Shes so adorable.
It does help that the actual character was made of already-real-life duck jpegs
Timestamp?
first thing they missed out on a burger restaurant theme based on the krusty krab, second thing was that a blood stain I saw in one of the hotel photo's at the end.
Time Stamp?
TheJman5683 16:08?
it was a bedbug
FOUL_ LIHP Thats still not a good sign too. I'd pack my bags and leave if I saw a blood or bed bugs in my bed.
Leanne Deetz Good point. Since I was five my parents would take me to Hershey Park every summer. For a majority of the times we stayed at the The Holliday Inn Express. A few of the times we ended up in the same room. Recently when we were there, we came home from dinner to find ants all over the tv stand, a solo cup that had a drop of my grape juice in it, my moms licorice that she left open and the beds. We asked room service to get rid of the ants the next day via calling the front desk. My dad was still in our room showering and my mom and I headed down to the kitchen for breakfast and mom asked the lady at the front desk if they will send someone to get rid of the ants while we were at the park, and the lady said that there is someone up there now yet we were just up there and my dad was in the shower. We came home from the park at around 10pm and there were still ants all over the room. And the most annoying part, were on the third floor and that is a room we ended up in at least twice. In conclusion, DON'T TRUST HOLLIDAY INN.
Nickelodeon afraid of being corporate that is the funniest thing I have heard all day
Wii Sports Senorita I’ve never heard that before
I mean this actually costed millions to begin construction you know?
@Daniel Kintigh they're still mammilians like humans, have diseases that are stronger because of those animals environment, and this wasn't even the first outbreak of sars. really, the only difference is that people didn't capture animals and sell them for foods or luxuries as much
"...but decided against it due to their constant fear of failure"
Wow I didn't know Nickelodeon was so relatable
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😂😂😂😂 I thought the same thing. I'm like shit I'm the Nickelodeon of theme parks
"Are you ready to be lawfully wedded?!"
"Aye-aye, Captain!"
"I can't heeeear yoooou!"
"AYE-AYE, CAPTAIN!!!"
"OOOHHHHH, WHO LIVES IN HOLY MATRIMONY?"
🤣🤣🤣
i am deceased xd
@BDWriter together for life for which they shall be!
This is incredible 😂😭💀
I wanna vomit everytime I hear someone say that Paris is the most romantic place in the world. Try again sweetie, the Nick hotel honeymoon suite is far better in every conceivable way.
Paris: Wack
Nick Hotel: *S n a c c*
ahhhh, playing ultra moon in a hotel room, with orange walls.
Seggs in front of the SpongeBob wall 🙌
what if we kissed in the abandoned nickelodeon hotel honeymoon suite 🥺👉👈 ahahahahahh jk.. unless???
When people talk about how they want to have a honeymoon in Paris I vomit in my mouth. Fucking uncultured swines.
“Hey baby where do you wanna have our wedding and honey moon?”
*”NICK HOTEL”*
*”A G R E E D”*
no joke, studio b looks pretty nice
If you didn't want to go to nick hotel you shouldn't have said "I do"
Do they toast you with slime instead of champagne?
If my honeymoon isnt at nick hotel I'm not getting married and that's a p r o m i s e
@@eilidhjohnson5694 agreed
I got married next to the pizza hut express at this hotel and spent a passion filled night in the adult suite before it was discontinued. The experience was highly underrated. We enjoyed all 25 inches of that television.
no way dude😭 not even outside… the wedding was in the food court??
I’m not sure I like the idea of that 🤢
How was the whirlpool??
Man, I feel sorry for your wife. I'm glad that you enjoyed 25 inches though.
@@nightshadehelis9821 that is the wife😭😭😭
God, imagine the pure potential of the “weirdcore” images you could take at this hotel
Holy shit. Imagine the backrooms levels.
But the nick logos and characters, it would no longer be liminal.
Complete with Yume Nikki music playing over them.
i heard it’s coming back to orlando!!! but i really hope they keep the original 2000s design, and not with whatever crappy shi the new nickelodeon theme is. old/kinda old nick hits different (i’m only 14) most new nick commercials and tv shows are so dumbed down to cuteness and stuff, and not THIS PEAK DESIGN AND ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!! i was diagnosed with autism when i was about four, and spongebob is my #1 “special interest”. and yea, that means i want the creepy ass costumes back too. either way, the only point of this comment is that: if they don’t have the original interior and exterior design of the resort the same if it does open again, ITS A WASTE OF MONEY (half joking)
90’s anti-corperate Nickelodeon is so different to how corporate Nickelodeon is now.
Weird to expect a for-profit corporation not to act like a for-profit corporation imo
@Ajax Hopper now days is all about money and that sucks.
Nick canon has a say now Lmaoooo
You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain
@@azia5051 always has been, companies always exist to make money first no matter how they might convince you otherwise
The lack of foresight on this is amazing, they themed this place after children’s tv shows, ya know the kinda shows that last 2, 4 years max.
I mean one of the physically biggest characters on that slide was Aang, from a show that ran 2005-2008, I mean it's one hell of a show, but the show didn't have much longevity for new kids who hadn't grown up on atla.
@@SlimTheydy and Jenny too, her show only lasted 3 seasons and the 3rd took years to even start airing.
Compared to the construction and operation costs of the resort, replacing the characters every few years is worth pennies on the dollar if it would keep guests coming in
They also had an immortal sponge and the Fairly Odd Parents outlasted the theme by about a year, but those are the only exceptions that I can think of.
I feel if they leaned into Avatar it would have been good. One of the few nick shows that is adult enough to maintain a loyal fan base.
I love how you can hear his slow decent into madness while naming the character costumes at the resort
“And little bill”
“A n g e l i c a”
Ming Ming Duck... Ling
Pablo
The...Bubble..Guppies??
Can't wait to see the Defunctland on the Star Wars Hotel that lasted, like, a year.
Probably going to be the season three finale
I have GREAT news about Jenny Nicholson’s most recent vid
I really didn’t appreciate how good those Disney costumes are until now
I miss those damned disney princesses
Me too 😋
…
Tbh Disney costumes are a really cool addition to DisneyWorld and Disneyland
The disney costumes are amazing, and they didn’t ever give me nightmares
So glad that i was into disney and not nickelodeon…
I love how your hesitance just keeps building up as you become less familiar and more confused with the characters.
And then, “and little bill”
Pablo
The way he says Angelica 😂😂
“Fanboy and ... _Chum-Chum_ ?”
OtakuUnitedStudio "and chase and marshall from the......... paw patrol???" XD
Private parents room. Imagine getting freaky in the nick hotel 💀
ahaha.. just kidding.... unless 😳😳
@@Konpeitokit these comments- I can't
are you feeling it now mr Krabs???
I would tbh 😳😳😳
RIDES OVER CREEPO, TIME TO DIE
"Would have been neat to have stayed here once"
I say seconds before images of
the rebrand pop up, in which I realized this is exactly where I stayed on my last Orlando trip.
the only memory i have of this place is when i didn’t eat my strawberries for breakfast, sandy came over and shoved one in my mouth
big mood
Dude the characters were ruthless during the breakfasts.
that totally happened!
sandy wouldn’t stop harassing me so i finally took a picture with her and she pulled my hair. fucking bitch
bRO WHAT
The kids spa package includes an exclusive dan Schneider foot rub
Fucksake
R/cursedcomments
LMAOOOOOO
Dan Schneider has a fetish
gwendolynn ford yes, that _is_ the joke
Sometimes I like to think about how in one hundred years some one is going to find that man made pond in the back of Nick hotel with the Dora statue and it'll be all old and shabby and covered in Vines and people will think it's some sort of horrific grave site or shrine
I found it, was an interesting discovery
The Egyptians have pyramids, the Chinese have a Great Wall, the Romans have colosseums, and Americans have statues of cartoon characters.
@@mackpines That's capitalism, baby.
@@mackpines based
i have a picture of me and my cousins next to it 😌😔
I still crack everytime at the fact that Kevin broke on the "Bubble Guppies" and not Pablo. Like Nickelodeon had so many cool and creative character names, like TMNT, Spongebob Sqaurepants, Paw Patrol, and then there's Pablo. Just Pablo.
Put some respect on Pablo the Penguin's name
@@flashyhero4850 He's the GOAT of baseball after all
@@TheGraveKnight and in The Backyardigans as well
and little bill. so silly
We love pablo
we don’t want a hotel, we want glove world
YESS!! With Heironymous Glove!
YES YES
YESSSS
YESSS!!!
I would not object to that at all.
10:10 so no one’s going to mention how Patrick fricken *YEETS* the menu off the table?
I just laughed at that!
SpongeBob: Oh Patrick I had a bad dream let's meet kids!
Patrick (on drugs but still in his normal voice): Ok let me just get this menu off the table and we're good SpongeBob.
Also Patrick: *knocks it off like he does in the video
*
Me and SpongeBob: *confused laughing*
I'M DYING LMAO
YOOOOOOOOO PATRICK GOT NO CHILL
He was on drugs
Feels like there's a missed opportunity for the employees. Imagine if the employees got to act like Squidward & verbally say how much they despised the guests & they could get away with it by saying they were staying in character?
That would have been beautiful, my fellow person...
I love how the nick time capsule just wants to sleep but it keeps getting moved
Does anyone else just comeback and occasionally watch this video? I swear to god it’s a masterpiece lmao
yes, all the time lol
I am right now.
I don’t know maybe
me too!
Yup
I wanted to stay at the Nick hotel so badly as a kid, but looking back I can kind of see why my parents always said no...
Megan Weller I went there ALL the time it was nice enough from what I remember
i actually went there when i was young and i gotta say, not so fun after a day. i was very excited as this was my birthday present, but to be honest everything there stunk but the water park, which as a kid was very fun.
i promise if you didn't get to this resort, your not missing out on much.
Megan Weller I stayed at it when I was 4 trust me you didnt miss much a lot of the big activities like game shows and the real sliming were lottery basically like when I went out of a crowd of prob 300-500 my brother got picked which made me mad
It's a little fuzzy, but I stayed there when I was 5. I remember the red bunk beds, and finally staying on the top bunk. But you're not missing out on much. I really just remember being chased by a squirrel, being slimed (which was awesome by the way), and the food court. 3/4 of those experiences were nice. But most of the time we were at Disney World. All we did at the hotel was dipping in the pool, eating, and sleeping. (which is all four/five year old me needed) But it's quite sad that it's gone. I wasn't even aware of it being closed down until now.
I did and it was awesome
I stayed there for my tenth birthday in 2006. The ads for the place really got to me, and I was desperate to go there for months before it opened. I don't remember it super well, but I made it to both of the pools, got slimed (I remember being disappointed that the 'slime' was just green water, and clearly not the stuff from Figure it Out and the like), and spent a lot of time at the arcade.
The first day we got there, me and my brother saw some lava lamps available as prizes in the arcades. They were some of those thousand-ticket prizes no one ever actually gets, but we both wanted them, so we made a pact not to spend any of the tickets we won at the arcade on anything else. You need to understand, for a ten year old, that is a trial. There were a lot of temptations, but I knew I was only going to get that lava lamp with all the tickets I would get during my time there, so I used all of my willpower and finally managed it. I bought that lava lamp on the last day I was there, and I still have it now.
ThePuppyTurtle awe that's great, you stayed strong till the end : )😊
It would be better if they used actual slime.
ThePuppyTurtle omg the slime disappointed me too
250th like and good for you
that's awesome dude.
god, this is my favorite defunctland vid. while there are plenty of other equally high quality, high effort productions from this channel, no other subject is as intrinsically deranged as a nicktoon hotel with a damn honeymoon suite.
I went here as a kid and there was a lifeguard at one of the big slides who told the kids when to go down the slide with time in between so we wouldn’t hit each other. The lifeguard was on his phone and just said “go,go,go” without any time in between kids. I noticed this and waited even when he said go to me and he got furious and started screaming for me to go over and over again. I went and hit a kid that was sitting right near the bottom of the slide. One of the worst experiences for me while I was there😭😭
In that moment, you were smarter than the person in charge
hopefully that guy got fired
You’re too good 😭
I’m assuming that’s the net one you climb up? The lifeguard when I was there told me to wait. I think it was just me and one other kid swimming that day
omg the same thing happened to me, I went back in maybe 2012-2013 and the life guard told me to go maybe 7 seconds after another kid, lucky we didn’t hit each other on the slide but when he was under the water I ended up going super fast and running him over 😭 my dad screamed at me and I hid under a towel for the rest of the Time we were at the pool
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6:26 As a wedding photographer, let me just say that you cannot even imagine where some people want to get married. Plus, almost as a rule, if you own a large indoor space and you are not using it for industry or warehousing, you're probably renting it as a venue on the weekends. It's just a natural consequence, it seems. I've shot in so many nasty old "shabby chic" defunct factories and the like, what people want is always far more strange than you'd think.
what’s the craziest place someone got married at?
@@froggers8945 sounds like one of those text to speech reddit ama videos
You’re lucky, at the flower shop I work at we only get regular old country club and hotel weddings. The the most interesting wedding venue I’ve set up was at a university, nothing like a creepy old factory
I have some interesting funeral stories though
@@andynonymous6769 tell funeral story
@@froggers8945 One time I was transporting this massive casket spray (a big arrangement you lay over the casket) and 2 bouquets to a funeral home. Usually I don't actually go inside the funeral homes, just to the loading dock. I unloaded the casket spray in the usual place and opened up the packaging, revealing some brown leaves and bruised petals- I'll prune them later, I told myself. When I got back to the drop off area with the other bouquets though, the casket spray was gone. So I freak out, like did someone steal it? I had to find it or my boss would kill me.
I closed the loading dock door and headed into the funeral home. I knew the funeral director was somewhere around, and that I was in the area that guests weren't supposed to go. I was a sketchy looking high schooler so I was worried that I'd get in trouble because I was too awkward to explain what I was doing back there- I just wanted to see if it was put a bit further inside, no talking if possible. I prowled around, trying to avoid the funeral director and to find the damn casket spray. I found it: on the casket. That was a relief, now I could prune off the ugly shit. But when I got close to the casket I realized that it was open, and poor Elsie (I remember her name because I wrote a condolence card from someone who sent the family a bouquet earlier that day) was lying there, clutching a rosary, looking very stern and very very dead.
Ok, I thought, This is creepy. I'll just pretend she's not there and prune the leaves I guess? Is it disrespectful to prune a bouquet directly over a corpse? No choice. I got to work aaaaand a leaf promptly dropped into the casket, directly on her face. I swore and considered just leaving it there- is it more disrespectful to leave a leaf on a corpse's face or to take it off? Maybe I could just... blow it to the side so that nobody could see it? I really didn't want to reach into the casket... Well, sucks to be me, again I had no choice. So looked around to see if any family members or the funeral director were around to yell at me- clear. I reached in (and if I was worried I'd be too awkward to explain why I was in the funeral home before, imagine how anxious I was to explain why I was elbow deep in a casket) and grabbed the leaf. I couldn't do it without touching her face- upper lip to be exact. Squishier than I expected.
I did a couple circles around the casket to make sure I got all the ugly leaves and stuff off and then booked it out of there. The funeral director was actually in the loading dock. He gave me a pleasant wave, and I responded with a curt "hey" and then I fucking left lol
Everything about the resort, the orange colors, the attractions, the claustrophobic yet large scale, all of it gives the place a slightly unsettling and eerie vibe... I can't really explain it.
almost like the backrooms
The hotel itself was quite cheesy 🧀🧀🧀🧀
Liminal space you know?
Nostalgic yet familiar that's Limnial Spaces for you.
being in this place alone at night would be terrifying lmaooo
I- dear God imagine being locked in a windowless room with spongebob just STARING at you
Could be worse. At least The Clock Man (Eastern European Cartoon Short aired on Nickelodeon in 1979) wasn't much of a thing outside word of mouth and some Gen X-er looking for it. The Clock Man on those bedroom walls would have prompted many a visit to therapy for anyone who who stayed there
@@NeurospicyBitch88 FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE TALKS ABOUT THE CLOCK MAN!!!!
Mrs. Puff in the asylum
Room with a moose
MENACINGLY!!
If 'The Shining' is ever remade, I want it to take place at a Nickelodeon Hotel, and all the ghosts are replaced by mascot characters, one of whom must be Jimmy Neutron.
Or more like The Banana Splits movie
Or fanboy and *Chum Chum*
HERE'S JIMMY!!!
ROFL
Lil and Phil would be the creepy twins in the hallway.
I find it absolutely hilarious that this place has a honeymoon suite. Can you imagine asking someone "where did you go for your honeymoon, Paris, the Caribbean, Vegas?" And they reply with "the honeymoon suite at the nickelodeon hotel, we had breakfast with Dora and SpongeBob too"
True lol
I mean at least it'll be a more unique and original story xD
Honestly, I've met some people that this would have been their dream honeymoon. Those people are usually a lot of fun.
People would think you were insane lol...or developmentally delayed.
Sounds good to me. Probably less expensive than taking her to a luxurious place. Which if she’s down for that. She’s a keeper.
I love Kevin's growing confusion over the newer characters in that costume run down (The... Bubble... Guppies?)
Raymond Gallant right lol he was saying the names like he was confused on who they were
Raymond Gallant
Ya gotta love how he immediately recognizes Little Bill though!
Cosby's shown up in a few of his vids before.
I can just hear a bit of disappointment when he said Fanboy and Chum Chum. I mean...he's not wrong to be disappointed?
-M I N G M I N G D U C K L I N G-
Raymond Gallant Lol, me too, I felt a ting of jealousy if he really didn’t know who they all are. I tried to ban Sponge Bob early on in my house, but I eventually caved. Paw Patrol is the only one I could stand, but Puppy Dog Pals on Disney Jr. has taken that spot. I admit I even watch it sometimes after my sons fallen asleep and it’s still playing 😋
Yeah. For me i know the later characters because of my daughter.
The fact that they didn't do much with the original Holiday Inn look besides paint it orange really gives "college needs more dorms so they repurpose a Motel 8" vibes
The Cosmo, Wanda, and little Bill costumes had me rolling
The Cosmo and Wanda suits look like those creepy, bobble-head looking character costumes that you'd find in a Disneyland parade photo from the 1950s/60s.
And jimmy neutron
Little bill is especially weird because Bill Cosby...
the good ones are the power ra.ger ones and the TMNT ones are kinda good
@@Flome810 I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the costume
When I was younger I stayed at this hotel and I loved fanboy and chum chum when I got to meet them I ran right up to them and hugged them the logo on there chest was hard plastic and I hit my chin on it and it hurt like heck
How in the world they didn't cosinfer things like that?
You liked Fanboy and Chum Chum? Their designs gave me nightmares 😭😭😭
First mistake - being a fan of Famboy and Chum Chum
Guess you could say you were a fanboy of Fanboy and Chum Chum
Hotel fatalities.............But awesome.
Funny story. Years ago I was in Florida at a business conference and my parents decided to fly over so we could all go to Disney world. My mom was in charge of booking the hotel. She booked THIS hotel. She had no idea what Nickelodeon was, so driving up to Jimmy Neutron's giant head peering down was quite a shock.
When we checked in the lady asked if there were any children. You can imagine the look we got when we said no. My mom thought she was booking a two-room suite. My "room" was the bunk bed kids room with a curtain for a door.
Three grown adults with no children at the character breakfast buffet was pretty hilarious. We ended up doing the 4D show and getting slimed, though. She has never lived it down lol
That’s incredible, I can’t imagine what the conversations were like with the characters. Hi bubble guppies I have no clue who you are
Holy shit I’m so attracted to the way you write
This is hilarious. Do you remember what your kids' suite theme was?
@@AnnaZverina jimmy neutron at 4:45 :)
@@amhar5748 - 🥺 Aw! This is actually incredibly adorable and very wholesome. What a cute little memory that you can always associate back to your mom.
So this one actually had a HAPPY ending! That hotel closed....because they opened BETTER Nickelodeon hotels
Now that you mention it, yeah pretty much
@@Angelomendez75and in the Dominican Republic
i guess so but none match the vibes of the original
@@diskdem0nthe original was an overpriced children's playground with terrible food anyways. The new ones are far better
@@dtxspeaks268 i really don't crap man i just like how it looked and the vibe was fun which is a hell of a lot more than i can say of the new hotels
even if the new hotels are, frankly, objectively better, the old one was more nickelodeon. (also, did you seriously reply to two of my comments just to specifically hate on me? thats kind of sad)
I stayed there as a kid. According to myself and my siblings, it was a blast and we genuinely loved it. According to my parents.... It was a disgusting, booger hellhole.
Sounds about right.
a disgusting, booger hellhole 🤣🤣
@Conker I'd say both you and OP's parents are right. To a Kid, it's the best vacation of their life, to the parents, it's a nightmare.
Two things can be true at once.....
i stayed there in 2016 while they were making renovations. it felt like we were the only guests there. it seemed like i was in a weird alternate reality where everyone had disappeared and i was just wandering around this abandoned, nostalgic hotel
Sounds awesome! Was the buffet open?
Did they ever deny a guest?
Damn, free backrooms trip without the skin stealers and impossible way to get home. Lucky you
@@arstulex Even with the most ridiculous request?
so did i, i was confused why there were no mascots
i'll never forget my intense 12 year old disappointment when the bucket of "slime" at the pool i waited all day to be dumped on me was food-colored water.
Yeah you had to pay like $150 for the real slime
same
We only made real slime on property twice. The stage shows used a powder mix, the bucket used food coloring. Real slime was nasty.
@@DsWildfire Isn't the real slime the powder mix used on the stage shows?
@@DCol real slime "you can't do that on TV" had a base of apple sauce and oatmeal. The powder has replaced it on TV shows and was at the stage. So really depends on your opinion. They two times they made the apple sauce mix a person from nickelodeon flew into Orlando to make it, only 12 people in the company knew the recipe. I worked in purchasing/the storeroom at the hotel and ordered what they needed, so I know what was in it but not the ratios. Had to sign a NDA.
It’s wild. I was part of the Disney College Program in 2016. The company sponsored apartments were right down the road from the Nick Hotel. Our busses to get to and from work (Disney properly traveled right by the hotel’s property. I remember always being intrigued and wanting to visit on a day off of work. It’s surreal to think I was admiring this property from afar quite literally in its final couple of months.
I remember my cousin saw the finale of Avatar while staying in this hotel. Probably the coolest experience I always wish I got to have.
Avatar is a masterpiece
@@Flome810 Yes it is
I would have LOVED that so much
12:37 who the hell thought they should put a piece of the berlin wall in a Nickelodeon time capsule
its actuallyalex the Germans making the executives be reminded of their unfortunate past
And how did they even get it, did the Germans just give to them
@@thehamburgler6970 David Hasselhoff gave it to them in return for a cameo in the Spongebob movie. At least that's my headcanon for it.
@@BRAINFOXINFINITE So this man traded in a peice of history and a reminder of the cold war for a cameo in a children's cartoon movie!?!?
@@thehamburgler6970 You guys are thinking of the large segments of the wall, the ones with full murals. Small pieces are really common, it was a huge wall, you can get them for less than $50.
"is this the Nickelodeon hotel suite"
" No this is Patrick"
Exodus Prime Yes this is Patrick
10/10 -IGN
I went towards the end of its days. We stayed in one of the deluxe SpongeBob themed rooms.
I have 4 distinct memories.
1) there was a statue of Blue from Blue’s Clues and I took a photo with it even thought it had sitting water that had grown algae
2) we were sold on the “kids club” by being told they had edible slime, it turned out to be applesauce dyed green.
3) there was a competition to be slimed where kids had to pick out their moms’ feet from a lineup
4) someone peed in the pool and we all had to get out
Damn who let Dan Schnider design a challenge
@@trollcop4504 Danny boy doesn't go for that. The moms are too old for him.
Has horrible nightmare
Turns on light
*Sees Jimmy Neutron*
Gamer Over *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
**insert screams of horror**
Better than Kimmel
jack mehoff god i hate that dude. he thinks he is SO funny
Me: *Gotta Blast!*
It’s shocking how the hotel couldn’t do the absolute minimum of what should be expected from a hotel. Clean and updated rooms. If you can’t even keep rooms clean then nothing else matters. Especially for hundreds of dollars a night.
Absolutely. How expensive can a routine maintenance be? Schedule it in a way that every room gets inspected by an engineer who at least repaints and redos those nasty spots. Of course, some of these can be fresh - I guess if it's themed at kids, especially like younger kids, and mostly seems to be also aimed at bigger families, then you'll have to repair every suite every three months in order to keep it up to date. And you're still paying off that 18 million dollar renovation from earlier... But some of these look like they were neglected for weeks to reach this state. Like, the torn mirror or the torn curtain can be literally from a previous stay (or... their own, if they try to blame the family before them...) but the state of the fridge and the stove at around 15:56 show that that's probably not the case. These are years of neglect, there's rust that's well settled, it doesn't do that overnight.
@@TheWinjin You don't even need an engineer. Just quality housecleaning that knows how to place a work order, a decent pest control guy once a week, and enough maintenance to keep up. Then again, it would also be EXTREMELY easy for Disney to price you out and poach your management.
They were updating it to be a holiday inn so it is on brand
As someone who frequently travels to Florida for work, and basically lives out of hotels all over the country most hotels look like the pictures shown later in the video. Florida is incredibly humid and it's hard to maintain the "brand new" look of a hotel. Mold, bugs, peeling paint, etc. can be commonly found in even the nicest hotels in Florida due to the humidity. You also have to consider the primary demographics of people who would stay at a kid-themed resort - kids. As a father myself, kids are incredibly messy and destructive. Adults aren't much better but at least at a hotel more geared towards regular adults, you don't see trim pieces pulled off of walls, peeled paint, stained furniture, etc. Yes, housekeeping should do a good job but there are some things you can't change, such as the messy nature of kids.
@@ericg6886 yea messy kids don't cause five year old rust and if they did they still didn't upkeep the hotel as it should have been. you probably tell your kids it's ok to be a little shitstain cause someone will come and clean up their mess kids can be messy and you should be a parent and teach them not to be such a fucking slob
Having the Nickelodeon character’s designed on the walls, staring at you while you sleep and having no windows in the kids’ rooms is a bit creepy
Imagine Dora watching you sleep
I remember sleeping with Spongebob.
personally I would have loved it
Its a more dangerous version of SCP 1155, worse since it was less unsuspecting at the hotel
The no windows was Dan schneiders idea
13:48 shoutout to the people in fish costumes rollerskating with heads they probably barely see out of
i could have gone my entire life without seeing blue from blues clues doing the dance from gangnam style
When?
Thomas Ray at 11:48
@@nessmastergengar4686 danke
That really really hurts
It’s the same vibe as watching Nazo Unleashed as a kid while wearing a troll face shirt.
I stayed here in 2006 and I gotta say, it was the best weekend EVER. As a kid, you LOVE the cheesy stuff, character rooms, and the water park! Getting slimed was a dream come true. Being local, my parents had taken me to Disney every year, but staying at the Nick hotel was by far one of the best vacations of my childhood. I was so upset when I saw it closed 10yrs later because I knew how exciting it was to go there.
@@aidankoliopoulos1196 *ripped
Vicky Hp I'm local too and always wanted to go but never did
You're sexy a.f
Andrew Christiansen simp
@@andrewchristiansen8311 calm down dude, this is the internet, not your inner thoughts
I love how they had character wake-up calls even though the people most likely to answer those calls were the parents
LOL I can just imagine the parents being unimpressed
Wake-up call: “Hola! Soy Dora! It’s time to wake up!”
Dad: “mmmmmph”
i dunno but yay Dora would be out of luck if the dad were Border Patrol.
The SpongeBob wake-up call was probably a s** joke about sponges.
A joke or for real
So my family took me here for my first trip to Disney World. I had been begging to stay at this resort because I loved Nickelodeon, so they booked it as another surprise for me. We got there and I instantly felt a little bit eerie, and I don't know why. The pool was closed and I cried because I was so excited to be slimed. There were no character breakfasts, very crappy food, and the toilet didn't even work in our room. So we left and went to the All-Star Music Resort at Disney World and it was SO much better and now whenever we go to disney world we stay at a disney resort. and we also left the nick resort within two hours lol. And the only characters that I saw were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who were walking around in the GUEST AREA and they looked really creepy.
What year was this?
@@bernlin2000 prolly later on like 2012-2014 basing off the fact the ninja turtles were there
@@bernlin2000 it was in the summer of 2014
I remember some comment on a news article of a teen saying he made kids cry by saying a dead squirrel in the pool was the real Sandy
So that was real? Ahh Humanity!
The hood lost a real one that day
*w e l p*
That just sounds like a 4chan shitpost
We're just going to ignore the fact that there was a dead squirrel in the pool?
Just imagine having your wedding hosted by Spongebob or Timmy Turner instead of a priest.
Actually,that doesn't sound bad-the SpongeBob one though..
SpongeBob as a priest/wedding official,now think about that..
To be fair, the band would have played sweet victory
Harry Morris Unlike the Super Bowl
Spongebob will be the only one allowed to officiate my wedding.
My spouse will agree to this or they prove that they don’t truly love me
SpongeBob hosts the wedding, Jimmy Neutron is the ring bearer, Angelica Pickles is the flower girl, and it ends with the newlywed couple being slimed.
omg I remember literally begging my parents to take me here when I was a kid and I was so confused why they always said no. As an adult I can see that that would have been pure torture for them
Wym as an adult you look 17
@@jaisydaisy
Awh you missed the compliment
I remember going here as a kid for a girl scout trip in like 2009. The general vibe I remember was that the kids room themes were not updated at all... like they still had rugrats/danny phantom/my life as a teenage robot rooms when these shows ended years before. or at least taken out of primetime cable slots for kids, so you could only see it at night. i feel like if your target audience are kids between 5-10 years old, why would they be interested in something that ended when they were like 2-5 you know? and probably haven't seen or remember the shows?
also could be that I was a salty 9 year old who didn't get the a:tla themed room lol
I mean, the hotel had pics of Rugrats, Chalkzone, Hey Arnold, Rocket Power and WTB, which are all shows from the 90s-2004.
This is also something I would agree on, even if I do love classic nick, I feel like they were too dated, hell why the f##k did they put up pictures of rocko in a repaint they had in like 2013, when his show was basically the first Nicktoon to be cancelled
Kinda defeats the purpose of having a time capsule if you keep digging it up
tell that to the animal crossing villagers
Oh, you don't open it. Just move the unopened capsule elsewhere.
12:38 I espescially like how that time capsule starts off _extremely_ depressing with a piece of the Berlin wall, and then almost everything else is just kinda fluffy
Fif Gallag oh god even worse the book of endangered species.
@@dillonleon5558 a fun finale for the whole family
Defunctland: (confused character names)
Also defunctland: AND LITTLE BILL
Our son BEGGED us to stay there in 2010. The rooms were musty, wet carpet, smelly, small and gross. The reception on the TVs was like something from 1960...SO BAD! The pools were nice, the show where they slimed people was kinda cool, there were a lot of characters running around to take pics with. The food at the resort was TERRIBLE and over-priced and so was the service. It was like a Motel 6 experience compared to Disney. Our youngest son was 8 and enjoyed it. We stayed in the Sponge Bob room. Our middle son was too big to fit in the bunk beds and ended up sleeping in the living area. I slept on top of the covers with my clothes on. It felt like something was biting me the entire time.
Delisa Richardson That sounds horrifying lol. Funny when you’re a kid everything is awesome you don’t notice the shitty things in life because you haven’t existed long enough to have a frame of reference.
I don’t blame you for being annoyed, from what I saw on those images it definitely looked very uncomfortable, unconditionally dirty and unstable, I wouldn’t want to stay at a place like that either.😳😑
That, my dear, was probably bedbugs
At least you did it for the kids so they can have fond memories of looking back and remembering how much fun they had, lol. What we put up with for our kids...
See the blood on the mattresses here? Guess what that is? Probably bedbugs. Maybe lice, too.
I would have called Visa 30 seconds after I got my bill with piles of photos and disputed the charge...
Every fix here looks totally half-assed.
For some reason, the fact that this place at one time had a honeymoon suite is the funniest part.
"Where did you guys go for your honeymoon?"
"We went to the Nickelodeon Hotel!"
"Huh?"
"Yeah. When we consummated the marriage... WE MADE SPONGEBOB AND JIMMY NEUTRON WATCH!!"
The real reason they had to remove the Nickelodeon characters. They saw things...
Imagine getting your wedding pictures in front of squidward's big ass nose.
BRUH 💀💀💀💀
The perfect wedding
You can still arrange weddings at Nick Hotels so you know where I'm taking my wedding pics...
I’d do that, sounds sick
Its not even his nose when you actually consider his anatomy 😳
My friend Rachel went there when I was in middle school. She won some competition where she got to find out the secret ingredient to Krabby Patties. Apparently spongebob told her it was pickles. Lol
I just read this to me little sister and she laughed her ass off
I was photobombed by Patrick in my picture with Dora
LMAOOOOO
Now we know
It’s imitation crab tho
The Nick Hotel rooms give me liminal space/ nostalgic creepy vibes even though I've never actually been there..
There are videos exploring the abandoned Nickelodeon Studios and... it gives me the same vibes.
I can tell the rooms Stink
It reeks of 2000s energy
They were infact pretty small
@@notlulu5479 they suprisingly didnt.
For some reason the hotel commercials also aired is South Africa. Probably one of the main factors that made me believe i lived in the USA when i was 5
Hey, when I was four, I thought that you could drive to China and our state capitol was Cinderella's castle 😅