I worked on no man's land fort for about a year. It was a bit lonely when it was empty. There was a mannequin in the basement that made me jump out of my skin every time I went down there 😂
They are auctioning it on 12/14/2023. Can you believe it's been abandoned all this time? It's so beautiful and such a magnificent piece of history! I hope someone will purchase it and keep the same vision. I'd definitely put it on my travel list!
I’ve stayed here and the smaller sister spitbank fort. It was an amazing stay run by a company who gave full tour, an overnight stay and incredible food. Was lucky enough to pick it up on secret escapes at just under half price. It was £800 per night at full price from memory. One of our best stays ever…… please check out the raves that happened there in the 80’s!! Looked epic. The rubbish that had to be cleared up when they were renovated into hotels was ridiculous. It sits over an aquifer that comes from France and has its own water supply. You can walk around the cavity in the smaller fort and it’s a spooky walk… I could go on for hours about the place. Packed with history both ancient and recent……So sad it’s empty and now for sale….. I believe Covid was the nail in its coffin.😢
Wow! This property is absolutely amazing! The combination of nautical, brick & stone! So loving the lighthouse/ship vibe! And the history! Lovely old furniture but no fireplaces?, LOL! Would love to book a stay! What a uniquely beautiful concept and property! From USA. Thank you so much for sharing❣️
It could be a nice hotel under proper management. Lots of hotels in Thailand and Fiji are located on tiny islands and it is amazing how much is recycled and reused on the islands with as little impact to the land and water on the island. They collect all the gray water, ie water from baths, kitchen except the toilet waste, and it is treated on site and released in retention ponds which are beautifully landscaped into the hotel with koi fish. The water then treated and used everywhere except for drinking. All garbage and kitchen refuse is treated with the organics used to make compost which helps to grow the herb and vegetable gardens. Very little is incinerated. The heat from the incinerator is used to heat the water for bathing etc. And sola energy is used to provide all the power needed. The toilet waste is placed in holding tanks and pumped out with equipment from the mainland using trucks and boats. Of course all plumbing has to reworked to separate the gray water. But this place can easily do it too. It could be almost self sufficient. The hotels in the Maldives all have their own sea planes for guests at the hotel.
Hi Alex, whoa why on earth is that place abandoned, it looks ready to receive guests, what a great place to get away to. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 🥰
it had been open for 8 years then In 2020, use of the hotel was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The hotel was unable to reopen as other English hotels did in July, "due to their unique requirements in both transportation and sanitisation requirements"
@@marcushull12sad. I am all for saving the environment but of late it has just gone too far. The people that make up the rules and regulations have no clue about operating these places etc They are usually a bunch of lawyers and some environment biologist etc who have nothing better to do but sit in a nice office making up more unnecessary things one has to abide by. They don't take into consideration the consequences to small businesses with all their impractical rules which make little impact on the environment. Just like the US now trying to stop the use of gas stoves/cookers in US households, yet the VP Kamala Harris was photographed this Thanksgiving next to her gas stove. I do as much I can for the environment, always recycling and re-using, as I buy most of items/clothes from trift stores being on a measly disability income. But these darn rich lawyers who write these regulations are always spending their money on the most expensive handbags, fancy cars and flying all over the place. It is same as Harry and Meghan educating us on the environment yet they are constantly flying private all over the world. Now these mom and pop businesses have to suffer the blunt of their ridiculous regulations and taxes putting them out of business!
@@marcushull12 that's a shame beautiful place definitely sad to hear the rona bring down so many beautiful locations only to be bought by the friends of the people responsible for the rona debacle in one way or another.
Would have been more enjoyable if we actually saw more than two seconds where you werent following your mate and swinging the camera all over the place.
The best bit was the drone footage of everything that he didn’t explore 🙄 also a narrow angle lens was useless along with no camera stabilisation. Feel like he missed a lot of film opportunity here
I was lucky enough to stay there once with my husband, as a surprise for him when it was an Amazing Venues Hotel. It was an amazing place and the walls in our bedroom were about three or four feet thick. Such a shame its been abandoned all that time, I really hope that it becomes another hotel as I'd like to revisit it again one day.
Definitely zombie proof, I'll turn it in to a community place grow food in the middle greenhouse full self contained off grid living love it thankz guys.
Alguien cuida este lugar esta limpio y en orden---------- por favor no muevan tan rapido la camara no se puede ver nada con claridad y creo que un lugar asi vale la pena dedicarle mas tiempo gracias
Guys i would love to stay here for at least 3 months of every month or year.Love your videos and love to you lads, Cheers friend long time :). HAPPY HOLIDAYS- MERRY CHRISTMAS thanks for all the work you do .? Barbara NWP, FL USA baby
IF that is Abandoned….where exactly is it, I’m gonna go “squat” it! But seriously, That place is too clean,no dust, bugs anywhere to be abandoned. Even the bedsheets look clean and fresh! I fear you have broken into someone’s property. You should leave STAT!
Something is up, the place is too clean and kept up. Someone must be living there to maintain the facility. If that's the case, how did you guys really get in? Or were you invited to review the property to help promote the auction? I don't believe for one minute this place was as abandon as you claim it is or was.
Bit eerie, being in such a good state but no 1 about. Slightly odd place, with a mixture of high end decor mixed with tat, which I;m not sure makes commercial sense as to customer appeal. Well filmed again, thx
I HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THE OWNER PAID £24,000:00 FOR IT. way way back. I watched the builders use a conveyor belt chucking all the crap into the sea, through one of the gun ports with the idea of picking it up later with a barge, not sure what actually happened to it in the end,,, yes they have a sewage problem,, which can be overcome, if approached properly. In the 1970's this was my playground on many occasions. There was a gas training room were servicemen would test and learn how to use their gas masks. There was a cinema, with a stage for performers, to entertain those stationed on the forts. There was also a huge great big bellows for the blacksmiths forge. The toilets were outside stuck on the outside walls. All the lower magazines were duckboards, and there was a room into which he just looked over a (wall (a recent addition) that led out to the open sea. the place was home to hundreds of seagulls. The magazine was protected from sparks by lanterns placed behind glass windows. That centre walkway was littered with batteries discarded by the person that tended the light. All the internal floors in the centre colum were timber tongued and grooved, at least 25mm thick in excellent condition. Most if not all the stuff in there is junk and was not in there when I went on, just junk collected from local junk yards, There was military noticeboards with instructions for manning various guns and searchlights, etc (which should have been preserved.) The ammo lifts should have been retained and refurbished. The person who owned the fort, and who was responsible for the restoration, has spoilt the history as it was when last manned during the war. I was lucky enough to have met a chap who was stationed on No Man's Land Fort, who told me a nice story, he ended up as Station master on Ryde Pier before he finally retired. I'm 83 now so he must be dead by now. The last of the few. The part I can't understand is< what was the opening at sealevel used for?
Please help me out,as I am confused! What happened? This is an abandoned hotel?? Why was it abandoned?? Why are there so many historical artifacts just left behind?? What happened?? This seems like a tragic failure,I just need to understand what happened here,and why,and when did this place just close like that,the hotel rooms are stuck in time,I am baffled. Please tell the story of how this happened!!
It just so happened (see what I did there) that the costs associated with running a seafort hotel do not cover the running of a seafort hotel and the place went under (so to speak).
it had been open for 8 years then In 2020, use of the hotel was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The hotel was unable to reopen as other English hotels did in July, "due to their unique requirements in both transportation and sanitisation requirements"
This asking what happened, not 100% sure but I know they had some high profile injuries there. There were stories on the news of coastguard helicopters having to go and get guests who were hurt. Possibly just became a health and safety nightmare.
I could totally live there. Would be a phenomenal home. Can't believe it's still abandoned
100%! Id go tomorrow if it had running water and was close enough to make bi weekly food runs or something. And fishing. This IS fantastic! AGREED!
Same here. A harden, some chickens and maybe a few sheep, a fresh water holder, and I'd be set !
@jomama5186 what is a harden?
I worked on no man's land fort for about a year. It was a bit lonely when it was empty. There was a mannequin in the basement that made me jump out of my skin every time I went down there 😂
It would have had to take swim w the fishes.......nah
The owners of this place should turn it into the world's first airbnb in the middle of the ocean. This place is absolutely gorgeous.
They are auctioning it on 12/14/2023. Can you believe it's been abandoned all this time? It's so beautiful and such a magnificent piece of history! I hope someone will purchase it and keep the same vision. I'd definitely put it on my travel list!
And so many homeless.
@@Flat_Earth_Sophiaand yet no matter what happens to this those people will still be homeless 🙄.
I don't really understand your point!
@@Doggmatt That's wrong. What don't you get?
Sad to say, but they would never put one homeless person in this forte. They’d fill it with migrants first. Welcome to the new world.
@@IAmHisSword True enough.
I remember climbing on that fort 60 years ago when it was abandoned and deralict ,wonderful to see it now 😊😊
I’ve stayed here and the smaller sister spitbank fort. It was an amazing stay run by a company who gave full tour, an overnight stay and incredible food. Was lucky enough to pick it up on secret escapes at just under half price. It was £800 per night at full price from memory. One of our best stays ever…… please check out the raves that happened there in the 80’s!! Looked epic. The rubbish that had to be cleared up when they were renovated into hotels was ridiculous. It sits over an aquifer that comes from France and has its own water supply. You can walk around the cavity in the smaller fort and it’s a spooky walk… I could go on for hours about the place. Packed with history both ancient and recent……So sad it’s empty and now for sale….. I believe Covid was the nail in its coffin.😢
I visited this in the 80s with school , crazy place before it was renovated, looks amazing now
The trouble is that we have stopped fighting them on the beaches!
What an amazing place just imagine making that into one big home. Absolutely stunning😊😊
insanity in 2 weeks awaits
Wow! This property is absolutely amazing! The combination of nautical, brick & stone! So loving the lighthouse/ship vibe! And the history! Lovely old furniture but no fireplaces?, LOL! Would love to book a stay! What a uniquely beautiful concept and property! From USA. Thank you so much for sharing❣️
The chap who owns “Dreams Beds” bought this fort at one time, apparently, In Portsmouth we have so many historical buildings and things to see.
That's such a shame, it looks so good and is now falling apart again. It looks beautifully designed and lovingly and cozy.
It is wonderful that urban vandals could not get to this place to destroy it.
Amazing, hope new owners can make a go of it, I’d love to visit.
Alex’s hidden talents-guitar playing…enjoyed seeing the Reno’s of that former bunker,is definetly going to be a classy get away hotel site🇨🇦
🤣🤟 thank you. Yeah it's apparently £500 a night here, but just sat in the middle of the sea abandoned.
It could be a nice hotel under proper management. Lots of hotels in Thailand and Fiji are located on tiny islands and it is amazing how much is recycled and reused on the islands with as little impact to the land and water on the island. They collect all the gray water, ie water from baths, kitchen except the toilet waste, and it is treated on site and released in retention ponds which are beautifully landscaped into the hotel with koi fish. The water then treated and used everywhere except for drinking.
All garbage and kitchen refuse is treated with the organics used to make compost which helps to grow the herb and vegetable gardens. Very little is incinerated. The heat from the incinerator is used to heat the water for bathing etc. And sola energy is used to provide all the power needed. The toilet waste is placed in holding tanks and pumped out with equipment from the mainland using trucks and boats. Of course all plumbing has to reworked to separate the gray water. But this place can easily do it too. It could be almost self sufficient. The hotels in the Maldives all have their own sea planes for guests at the hotel.
Very nice place to stay , If you could afford it !! Thanks for the look round , Stuart in Canada ..
This abandoned sea fortress ,will make someone a fabuloushome 🏡 .
We cannot believe its empty ,and hope the new owners really appreciate it ❤❤❤❤
Hi Alex, whoa why on earth is that place abandoned, it looks ready to receive guests, what a great place to get away to. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 🥰
Can't believe this place is abandoned! Its awesome.
Why is that abandoned? That place looks nice. I would convert it to a house and live there.
it had been open for 8 years then In 2020, use of the hotel was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The hotel was unable to reopen as other English hotels did in July, "due to their unique requirements in both transportation and sanitisation requirements"
@@marcushull12sad. I am all for saving the environment but of late it has just gone too far. The people that make up the rules and regulations have no clue about operating these places etc
They are usually a bunch of lawyers and some environment biologist etc who have nothing better to do but sit in a nice office making up more unnecessary things one has to abide by. They don't take into consideration the consequences to small businesses with all their impractical rules which make little impact on the environment. Just like the US now trying to stop the use of gas stoves/cookers in US households, yet the VP Kamala Harris was photographed this Thanksgiving next to her gas stove. I do as much I can for the environment, always recycling and re-using, as I buy most of items/clothes from trift stores being on a measly disability income.
But these darn rich lawyers who write these regulations are always spending their money on the most expensive handbags, fancy cars and flying all over the place.
It is same as Harry and Meghan educating us on the environment yet they are constantly flying private all over the world.
Now these mom and pop businesses have to suffer the blunt of their ridiculous regulations and taxes putting them out of business!
@@marcushull12 that's a shame beautiful place definitely sad to hear the rona bring down so many beautiful locations only to be bought by the friends of the people responsible for the rona debacle in one way or another.
I hope that nobody decides to just break in to vandalise the place that would be such a shame.
What a amazing Place.. That's a WOW.
Just watch this and im blown away . WOW ❤
Would have been more enjoyable if we actually saw more than two seconds where you werent following your mate and swinging the camera all over the place.
I’ll wager you complain about everything.
The best bit was the drone footage of everything that he didn’t explore 🙄 also a narrow angle lens was useless along with no camera stabilisation. Feel like he missed a lot of film opportunity here
A bit rude. You’re not wrong. It’s dizzying, agree there, but your delivery could be better.
The filming is terrible, my vertigo has kicked in.
@@Mike-h1kthat's a wager you'd lose
I was lucky enough to stay there once with my husband, as a surprise for him when it was an Amazing Venues Hotel. It was an amazing place and the walls in our bedroom were about three or four feet thick. Such a shame its been abandoned all that time, I really hope that it becomes another hotel as I'd like to revisit it again one day.
I have no how i missed this one #Alex! I loved this one! Just going back and looking at the ones i missed! ❤
9:14 Pembroke Dock my hometown mentioned, didn't expect to see that on this vid. Cool!
They made that bad boy to LAST! WOW.... I would love to live there. Make it a single home...
you'd go crazy in two weeks, studies show
Wow what a badass solid location great content guys
Awesome video,and great to see the fort being restored and reused.Keep up the good content 👊
This place is being quite well maintained for "abandoned".
Georgous Georgous hotel never in my life have I seen anything like it good video guys 💙💙🥰🥰👍
Imagine getting a caretaker job for this place. That would be a dream job
Definitely zombie proof, I'll turn it in to a community place grow food in the middle greenhouse full self contained off grid living love it thankz guys.
You should concentrate on the camera instead of waving it all around and pointing on a wall while you are discussing
I think this fort was famously used in the filming of a doctor who story in the 1970s.
The story was in 1972 and featured Jon Pertwee as the doctor.
One of the was I'm not sure which one though.
Hi from Portsmouth sad I didn't know about this video when you put it out! But here I am so glad I finally get to see it.
Good music to finish off an interesting programe! Your programmes have come a long way!
Blinder chaps..proper turn out when you started talking about flange 😅😅im cracking up aint heard that in donkeys proper 🤣 ❤😅😅😊
Alguien cuida este lugar esta limpio y en orden---------- por favor no muevan tan rapido la camara no se puede ver nada con claridad y creo que un lugar asi vale la pena dedicarle mas tiempo gracias
Ma perché, quella è un idea fenomenale! Non c'è qualcuno che la sfrutti prima che venga vandalizzata?
Abandoned? Wowza. I love these videos
What an amazing fort in the Solent No money spared on that furniture in there
Crazy how good it looks compared to the fort boyard days ❤
could live easily on it if amazon delivered couple of times a year supplies half world lives with 1000 times less and makes it
Super Video, amazing what a bit of money and dedication can do to something which would be a derelect wreck.thanks for posting it . the business !!!
Loved it dude.... a bit angry about such a thing goes to waste. Enjoyed every sec of it.
1:08 Did i hear someone say "can we not just get the ladder?" 🤣
You think they would supply security to live onboard to prevent trespass AND keep operational...
Such an awesome place. Well worth seeing. Beautiful inside and bright. Still need that bath ☺️😸
Thank you Jackie and yeah I thought about running myself a bath there 🤣🤣🤣
@@VacantHaven I just love the shape of the bath, and just know it would look great in my bathroom. 😁
Guys i would love to stay here for at least 3 months of every month or year.Love your videos and love to you lads, Cheers friend long time :). HAPPY HOLIDAYS- MERRY CHRISTMAS thanks for all the work you do .? Barbara NWP, FL USA baby
Hope it is open again soon !
Used to do raves on here 20 years ago
They had a rave on that thing years ago
To Scottlee. Had a rave there? How perfect is that!
IF that is Abandoned….where exactly is it, I’m gonna go “squat” it! But seriously, That place is too clean,no dust, bugs anywhere to be abandoned. Even the bedsheets look clean and fresh! I fear you have broken into someone’s property. You should leave STAT!
What a great 👍 property
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Thanks for the visit very interesting something for the Uber rich would consider ,better have a good maintenance staff you'll need one
good place fishing round there in the summer , when i had my Hardy with a yam 60 on , before it got smashed up in the hurrican of 1987.
Wow this place looks amazing what a great explore and great video nice drone work too 🤗👍👌
Thanks Kev ✌
What a freaking cool place! Shame! 🤔
We used to have raves on there bout 15 years ago it never looked like that tho used get a few hundred people was brilliant
Really good. Thanks
Wow that place is amazing mate.
Something is up, the place is too clean and kept up. Someone must be living there to maintain the facility. If that's the case, how did you guys really get in? Or were you invited to review the property to help promote the auction? I don't believe for one minute this place was as abandon as you claim it is or was.
It is very well built and water tight. Very few points of entry. Why would it get dirty? You can tell it has not been kept up just generally.
Bit eerie, being in such a good state but no 1 about. Slightly odd place, with a mixture of high end decor mixed with tat, which I;m not sure makes commercial sense as to customer appeal. Well filmed again, thx
This is the best video that I’ve seen on UA-cam. Thanks guys I really enjoyed this video
A safe place to be during a hurricane. Lots or protection.
I’d rather be well inland.
Me too.
4 days till auction. i should buy this and turn it into a studio.
To Wsfore. I was THINKING it LOOKS like a studio!
Surprised how owners just leave everything open for anyone to walk in …! 😊
Better than locked and then graffiti appears where things are locked, nosey but not vandal people just poke in, and leave.
2 years later, has anything been done with this place or is it still there empty rotting away? Amazing place, what a waste.
I HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THE OWNER PAID £24,000:00 FOR IT. way way back.
I watched the builders use a conveyor belt chucking all the crap into the sea, through one of the gun ports with the idea of picking it up later with a barge, not sure what actually happened to it in the end,,, yes they have a sewage problem,, which can be overcome, if approached properly.
In the 1970's this was my playground on many occasions. There was a gas training room were servicemen would test and learn how to use their gas masks. There was a cinema, with a stage for performers, to entertain those stationed on the forts. There was also a huge great big bellows for the blacksmiths forge. The toilets were outside stuck on the outside walls. All the lower magazines were duckboards, and there was a room into which he just looked over a (wall (a recent addition) that led out to the open sea. the place was home to hundreds of seagulls. The magazine was protected from sparks by lanterns placed behind glass windows. That centre walkway was littered with batteries discarded by the person that tended the light. All the internal floors in the centre colum were timber tongued and grooved, at least 25mm thick in excellent condition. Most if not all the stuff in there is junk and was not in there when I went on, just junk collected from local junk yards, There was military noticeboards with instructions for manning various guns and searchlights, etc (which should have been preserved.) The ammo lifts should have been retained and refurbished. The person who owned the fort, and who was responsible for the restoration, has spoilt the history as it was when last manned during the war. I was lucky enough to have met a chap who was stationed on No Man's Land Fort, who told me a nice story, he ended up as Station master on Ryde Pier before he finally retired. I'm 83 now so he must be dead by now. The last of the few.
The part I can't understand is< what was the opening at sealevel used for?
Cheers for the info, very interesting 👍
To Bazzra. WOW! You certainly have some tales to tell
Please help me out,as I am confused!
What happened? This is an abandoned hotel??
Why was it abandoned??
Why are there so many historical artifacts just left behind??
What happened??
This seems like a tragic failure,I just need to understand what happened here,and why,and when did this place just close like that,the hotel rooms are stuck in time,I am baffled.
Please tell the story of how this happened!!
Could I possibly use the word ‘happened “ more?🙄
It just so happened (see what I did there) that the costs associated with running a seafort hotel do not cover the running of a seafort hotel and the place went under (so to speak).
after the initial hullabaloo people tried it and just got bored.
it had been open for 8 years then In 2020, use of the hotel was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The hotel was unable to reopen as other English hotels did in July, "due to their unique requirements in both transportation and sanitisation requirements"
why didn't you spray paint a phallus on the wall? All the cool kids are doing it.
I'd like to know how the place was powered. Didnt see any solar panels.
I wanna stay there!
What is it called? I could imagine it was abandoned because of the expenses to maintain
How did you guys get out there? Did you have a boat??
You're shaking the camera like it's Blair Witch project.
lol
Shaky jerky camera work gave me a headache. Stopped at 7 minutes
i don’t know why they would leave the doors open and not locked crazy
Looks intriguing, but at what cost to stay there
Very nice
Looks well kept. I am sure it's somebody's
Would make a nice ARK in an apocalypse kinda scenario...
Será que está á venda,gostaria de adquirir !
Great tour, but for the love of God and all that is holy, get some image stabilization/steady cam or just try to be a bit less frenetic.
There must be some booze somewhere.
Amazing footage drone footage thanks enjoyed it 😀
Thank you Melissa much appreciated! And thanks for your kind donation 🙏😊 glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool
Why is not used anymore? Covid take it too? It was really nice and historical.
Adónde está ubicado ?
Seems like a bargain for £4M. I don't have the money though.
I did totally work there.............................
Camera stabilization?
This place is nice sad its just sitting there
This asking what happened, not 100% sure but I know they had some high profile injuries there. There were stories on the news of coastguard helicopters having to go and get guests who were hurt. Possibly just became a health and safety nightmare.
maybe the ravers before this
I want that fort.
Where is this locadet