Tales of the Urban Explorer: The Rotting Hotel
When I heard that this rotting hotel had been ‘Jake’d’, I took some notice. Jake is a YouTuber, or GoonTuber as @grindle names them.
Regardless of what I think of Jake’s ethics, I follow him to see what he’s been up to as he has a habit of leaving plenty of clues.
The one had little in the way of personal possessions and may well have been sealed up since @dizzydiscovery and I visited in Mid June, so I won't be so secretive about its whereabouts.
The hotel was the first one our list of many that day and scouting the place out was the first thing. This was once the car park of a mid-sized hotel. It has seen little action of late.
I was confident of the 'way in' (thanks Jake), which was relatively easy once we managed to get around some casual walkers who were most annoyingly 'walking about' and peering inside.
Being closed since 2012 has not done the place any favours, with large bits of floor missing in parts of the upper section.
The filing cabinets held not a thing besides some name tags attached to the front.
Don’t expect banisters to hold on to, they tend to be the first things to drop off.
What a mess; it was really dark inside with creepy corridors to boot!
Being a newer type of building, we get new furniture of sorts. It always looks out of place to me when situated inside a wreck.
Something died some time ago, perhaps a fish that lost its way?
I came for the photography. It was hard to find anything great at 'The Rotting Hotel'.
These were once standard hotel fare rooms and many were the same. Not too much of interest and we didn’t delve into each one of them.
£44 quid a night and £30 at weekends tells me this was a budget hotel. £30 seems quite the bargain but then look at the date.
In 1986 it wasn’t quite such a good deal!
I love greenery coming from the outside; it makes for good shots… sometimes, but not this time.
More correspondence; I should have taken a closer look.
32 Luxury bedrooms, there were a lot of them and another separate extension.
We sought out the front area and found the toilets instead, and I mean big ones!
The reception desk has seen better days, as has the bar.
Downstairs was the cellar, cold quiet and creepy.. but we went down there anyway.
Nothing there besides a rusty safe that refused to open.
After emerging, I heard people outside and saw more walkers dithering about looking at the hotel.
It was far too dark for them to see me so I kept quiet until they left and ditched the light.
Overall not the most exciting explore with little left besides the old receipts. It was a big old place though.
Maybe not...
We checked some of the outer buildings and found another that was possibly a separate wing but it looked quite sealed.
I am surprised it has not been on the Urbex radar before now. Maybe the demolition crew has visited recently opening it up for everyone?
A good start to the day, but it was not to last. The next FOUR places we visited were consecutive fails.
The joy of the unexpected, there’s nothing quite like this!
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I like the way nature has reclaimed the car park. The red paint of the decor certainly helps in adding that slight air of creepiness. Can you imagine it at night? Yeek.
Those walkers, if you ask me they deserved a scaring!! :0D
If I could have been confident they would scarper with their hands waving in the air while screaming I would have done it hehe..
It would have been a sight to behold! Unless they turned rogue and went for you, lol!!
I'm always up for a laugh!
The trees look different. dark and beautiful green.
A combination of England's lushness, being mid-summer, and my filters!
Is it constantly raining? @slobberchops
It does rain a lot here, but in June it was very dry. Since then it has made up for it.
I heard the weather was very hot there in June and July. right.
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I think this is a great idea ... add a freaky/scary hallowe'en mask to your exploration kit ... Maybe a Sasquatch or something like that ... I imagine the walkers were already a little nervous. You could have scared the crap out of them. It would have been brilliant!!!
A full suit would be too much to carry ... but the fear factor would be high.
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Hehe, don't put ideas in my head!
I'm laughing just thinking about it.
What a mess. Another place that will be left to rot. May not be worth doing up even if it were a good idea to open a hotel now and doesn't look much good for anything else.
Another mess.., so many of them but they are harder to find than you may think.
Makes me speculate about the going-on's of this place if they had the "desk next to safe" on speed dial 😂 It looks pretty interesting! Too bad there weren't many things left behind; are there usually at hotels? I don't believe I've ever explored a hotel, not that I can think of, so excuse my ignorance but I would imagine they are usually for the most part pretty void of personal affects.
Anyways, great pictures! Bummer the rest of your day was a bust. That outbuilding looks pretty interesting. Love seein it, as always!
A hotel to me is a big pub, and there are plenty of those here. It's been left too long for much to remain and is not exactly in a rural place.
Oh it, wasn't. Just the next 4. The 3 after that were all hits.
Very suitably grotty !
And some nice paperwork to root through
I should have rooted more, they looked like similar receipts. I'm still learning to pick out the interesting bits. This was a good 2 months ago.