Sad to see that vandals have already started destroying this place, but apart from that it's amazing how preserved this place is. Clearly they expected to just reopen after the main part of the pandemic, but they never did.

Hi, I know i'm 11 months late, but it's strange for me to watch this. I was a customer service supervisor here up until closure. You all might be wondering why it was left with beds made and breakfast service ready to go. Unfortunately, the night shift handed over to the morning shift who started preparing for the day, at around 9am we were called, ironically, into the conference room, where we were then told that the hotel would be closing, we could go home and await further instructions as there was no need for us to be in. A week or two went by when we were told it's not necessary for us to return, and things were left pretty much where we left them. The only people who entered after us were managers and a removal team who dismantled/removed workable items that could be relocated to other properties. There was only 1 guest at the time of our closure, but we had a recruitment event being held there 2 days later, hence why Conference Room B was semi-made.

I worked as a housekeeper when everything shut down and before they fired everyone, there was a couple weeks where travel was shut down but we were still working, so we took the opportunity to do the deep cleaning you dont get to do in the normal season, get all the comforters washed and stuff. So I could see that being done in the time right before going out of business for good, leaving it cleaner than its ever been since it first opened.

That’s seriously the nicest abandoned facility you’ve ever featured. It’s like everyone was there one shift and nobody showed up for the next.

The restaurant set up, the pumpkin water catchers, the made beds...all point out that the employees here had NO IDEA that the day they came in to do their usual duties that it would have been the last time they would ever set foot into this establishment.

It would be wild to show this to someone from 5 years ago and tell them, “yeah it’s because of a virus.” How terrifying.

2:00 Respect to the servers and bus people who cleaned and set those tables that one last time. I hope y'all are doing okay. ♥

When I think of how many people are homeless, it breaks my heart to see all this space not being used to create places for people to live.

If I was homeless and found this I'd be stoked

What makes this place stand out so much is the level of preservation. It really looks like they were prepared to reopen after the pandemic. And it never did. It looks like humanity just vanished from this place, and that is whats so fascinating.

What I appreciate about your exploration videos is that there's no cheesy sound effects and plenty of silence. Everyone else seems to want to make ghost stories out of abandoned buildings, but whenever I watch your vids I end up contemplating the temperality of everything, how the biggest buildings/attractions can fall into irrelevancy at any time.

I am shocked the owners did not have an auction. Those pianos alone go for 16-27k depending on model and condition. But I will say I pleasantly surprised to see it has not been looted either.

Honestly a lot of these abandoned hotels and motels could be easily turned into homeless shelters or cheap apartments

I can't believe how much stuff is left behind in some of these places. You'd think they would sell/liquidate or donate or something...

me and my friends just found this hotel its crazy how good condition it's in. I hate when people destroy it. It's been 2 weeks since this video and all the dishes in the restaurant are broken on the floor. I hate people that's trash these places and ruin it for the rest.

This was one of the Holliday Inn "Hollidomes" from the 70's/80's and it wasn't just for conventions. In the northern US it was a cheap vacation for people who would go to the hot, humid Hollidomes where you could walk around like you were in Florida, that also had a pool, arcade, shuffleboard, fooseball, bar and restaurants.

It's a shame that the building can't be repurposed into, say, apartments. I love seeing unusual buildings being made into apartments - my sister's old co-worker was a teacher who had retired, the school she taught at was closed right afterward and was converted to apartments for seniors. The room she moved into turned out to be her original homeroom. I wish more landowners would repurpose perfectly fine, structurally sound buildings into something other than a future pile of rubble.

I just wanna say that you mentioned "it's surprising there's so much decay on a short period of time". But I think people tend to forget these old buildings arent usually abandoned in perfect shape. Generally they're already having various issues by the time they're abandoned.

I've been to a few hotels that have a large closed in atrium, and for some reason, I have always really liked that style of hotel. You can go outside your room to the amenities without having to actually go outdoors, which is nice when the weather is really cold or hot. Something about those hotels has always stuck with me, but sadly more and more of them are closing.

It's a little sad that clearly all the workers were intending to come back. It makes me wonder how much heads up they had that it was closing

Wow, two pianos in mint condition for the price of one? That's crazy! I'd hate to see them deteriorate or get wrecked

Thank you so much for this video. I'm a huge fan and love everything you make, but this one really hits home for me in a very tender and profound way. I apologize in advance to everyone for such a lengthy comment, but I've never gotten the chance to talk about this before. This is the first time you've explored a location I've actually been to myself when it was in operation. It's very spooky to me because not only do I know this place, I know it intimately: I have extremely personal and special memories of this hotel, and staying there was a formative event in my life. I attended a conference here almost twenty years ago now - I can't remember the exact date - and I got to stay in one of the first floor atrium rooms. The experience changed my life. I'm not a frequent traveler or anything, but I've stayed in a few hotels over the years and have even been lucky enough to stay in a handful of really nice ones. I'd never stayed in a hotel like this one before, and I as write this I haven't ever got the chance to do so again. No other hotel I've ever been in has left this big of an impact on me: Those few days I spent here are burned into my psyche and have continued to inspire me ever since. That atrium was so, *so* beautiful when the hotel was operational. My nervous system is hypersensitive to stimuli, and walking through those doors into the atrium for the first time was overpowering in the best possible way: To me everything felt bright, warm, colorful, inviting and welcoming, and the banners hanging down from the ceiling added just the right touch of grandeur. It felt alive and bustling as guests and conference attendees mingled, toed and froed, but it also felt cozy at the same time. It was like we were all in living in our own little community together: That wide, spacious concourse was like our own Main Street, we had our own community swimming pool (with hot tub!) and, when I was there at least, there was even a video arcade in that second floor kiosk-room you can see in a few shots. At night we'd all "go out on the town", sit by the pool and socialize, then go upstairs and hang out at the arcade into well into the wee hours of the morning. Some kids would even play tag and hide-and-seek by ducking and weaving between the atrium, the surrounding hotel and the maintenance areas! It was so lovely and so much fun. I caught myself repeatedly thinking how nice it would be to live in a place like this, especially given its location and what the weather gets like there 'round about February or March. For years and years after that conference this hotel stuck out in my mind, and I never could completely explain why. Sure, it was a delightful weekend or whatever, but something about the building itself touched my heart too and it frustrated me I couldn't identify or articulate what it was or why. Over a decade later I discovered the philosophy of themed spaces and, entranced, I read all I could about design theory, Victor Gruen and the mall concept. Only then did things finally "click" for me: The reason I felt so happy in places like (good) malls, the ski mountain I live by with an outdoor plaza stylized as an Alpine village, the Contemporary Resort and EPCOT in Walt Disney World and this hotel is because I have some kind of innate, deep-rooted affection for modernist architecture. I love inhabiting a space that's been meticulously designed from the ground up around a theme and to service a need for people in a creative, elegant way. It's probably also why I have a huge thing for ocean liners too. I now consider 20th Century design theory a true passion of mine, it's helped mould my creativity and imagination in all sorts of new ways and allowed me to learn much more about who I am as a person. I'm confident in saying that never would have happened if I hadn't stayed here all those years ago. I knew the hotel had changed hands a lot over the 2010s, went through some hard times and eventually closed in 2020. Even so, it's still so surreal seeing it like this. I'm happy it's more or less untouched (or at least it was when you were there), and I echo the sentiments of a lot of the other commenters calling it for it to be turned into a residential community. The housing situation in this country is so sad and it breaks my heart when people go homeless while places like this are torn down and forgotten. It's a cliché, I know, but in the case of this sort of modernist design in my (admittedly very limited) experience, "they really don't build them like they used to anymore". It's infuriating, too, because this is pretty much the exact problem this type of architecture could have helped solve in the first place. I don't know if anybody will read this given the absurd length and lateness both, but I'm grateful for the opportunity to share my story all the same. I literally cried genuine tears writing this. Please keep doing what you love: Art like this touches people.

It's a shame how vandal's have already started trashing it. Extremely eerie how a virus can do such damage. You see it in the movie's but never think of it happening in real life.

This could've easily been rented out as a low budget filming location. Not just as a hotel, but all these rooms and such could easily represent anything else. There is even plenty of room for sets.

Imagine renting one of those convention floor rooms and then right outside your door is the full-blown convention that you'd have to fight your way through if you want to leave your room for anything 😅 And even if you don't leave, everyone is just right there, making noise.

Breaks my heart. So much could be given away. What waste.

The Last of Us, the early days :P Kinda reminds me of an old retirement home I visited during my school work placement week. Everything had been left behind, including belongings, coats hanging up. One door in a hallway had been smashed, but other than that, looked like everyone had just vanished. Was very eerie.

I remember those Holiday Inns designed with all the rooms facing an indoor pool! So fun for us kids on road trips to swim at night.

What is really spooky about this is there were people who went home one night in early 2020 and never went back to the same work place again.

your videos are always insanely good, i've reccomended them to countless friends

My brother worked as a security officer at this location when the pandemic first happened they and the whole staff would be notified when they could return to work. It never happened! To this day it's still not known why it never reopened and impossible to contact anyone in control. My brother always questioned why they were so concerned about security in this place. He said it was like guarding fort Knox. They spent a third of their revenue on security alone. They had backups on top of backups! Your every move was more than likely recorded!

There's absolutely no one that delivers such amazing content like Jake and Company! Six stars rating!

It always amazes me that businesses are allowed to just "walk away" and leave a building to rot. Somewhere down the line it becomes someone else's financial problem.

I grew up a few miles from this hotel. I recognized it as soon as I saw the placement of the pool in the middle of the courtyard. My family actually had a swimming membership of sorts here that the hotel offered to locals who wanted to swim indoors during the winter. It's a bit odd now as I think back but it was so fun as a young kid getting to swim and play at the arcade in the middle of winter. The arcade consisted of 3 games at the time - one was Asteroids. The restaurant was actually pretty decent at one time. I recall a Mothers Day buffet one year. Sad to see it in this condition but I'm surprised it made it to 2020. It was pretty dated in the 90s when I last saw it. I hope people don't destroy the place while the new owners figure out what to do with it. I think it would be rather nostalgic to stay here on a visit home with my family if they could bring it back to life. I wonder if the area could support another hotel - there are plenty of others that popped up around it - but none with a cool history like this place. Thank you for sharing the video.

Omg Brenan and the "wheelchair accessible" room had me Rollin 🤣

It is a shame we have overpriced housing and so many issues related to the subject, yet so many abandoned completely livable spaces like this. This would make a super cool community.

I love old atriums or 'holidomes' in those hotels. I stayed in a hotel like that with my aunt as a child on a staycation. We had so much fun. Indoor pool, mini golf, water features, tropical foliage, globed lights elicit nostalgic feelings for me.

I never understand why they don’t just give the furniture to another hotel. Everything looks so pretty, besides the small indications of decay. The restaurant was beautiful, and apart from a few cracks and dust, it still looks wonderful. The furniture doesn’t look bad at all. It literally looks frozen in time, when you don’t notice the little decays. The architecture is beautiful, and the beds almost appear to be clean. I’d camp out there on a cot, and just enjoy the scenery for a couple days, taking pictures of the almost pristine looking restaurant. It’s so strange to see a hotel so clean, and with little vandalism. I might lay on those made beds, but it would feel wrong to disturb them as they’re frozen in time.

He said “it’s so quiet” I sure would hope it’s quiet. I’d be reallllllly scared if there were ANY noises other than his crew. 😅😂

This would make one hell of an assisted living facility!

It's so weird to me how a building can receive little to no maintence over 3-5 years and be total fine but as soon as people are no longer around, it starts to decay quite quickly

My wife had her bridal shower there 20 years ago. I don't remember it being open in December 2019, and we literally stayed right next door. Sad to see a building like this, but travel priorities have changed, and it would take $3-5 million to get that place up to spec. With as many hotels on that strip, and sandwiched between 2 very new ones, it would be a tough uphill battle.

Great video. Unfortunately the vandalism has become worse and there was a fire last month. The new owner claims that they are going to make changes but none have been forthcoming. The local newspaper has been covering this fairly well.

I remember this hotel from the 70s. It was at about the mid point when we’d drive from the Philly burbs up to visit my aunt and uncle who lived in Burlington VT. I used to think that place was the coolest kid paradise.

I get the sense that one afternoon, staff was about working and suddenly just ‘walked out’ by security and the hotel closed (I’ve known of situations like that). Too many things were left as just is. The restaurants, though, seemed to have been cleared out of food. I remember going to conferences in mega-hotels like this, so many attendees with sometimes multiple events happening at once. Like a small city. Weird seeing it still basically in place but void of people. Great video.

Reminds me of Pripyat, like one day people walked away expecting to return but they never did. As though a catastrophe happened, and I guess one did.

That pool is perfect for skating!! Just drain out the rest of the water, grab your board and go. 👍

It’s even spookier and more haunting than most of your more decayed expeditions. It looks like everyone just left midshift and I’m so glad you got there before vandals did.

Jake, this is crazy. I know this hotel; I grew up nearby. I went there once with my dad in the mid-00's and there was some sort of boring event in the center atrium that I had to be at. I don't remember what it was. I just remember finding the indoor pool afterwards and wanting to go swimming. Probably won't come as a surprise that all that decor was the same back then. Sad to see it like this now.

It’s so sad to see a hotel that was thriving to now being abandoned. Wish this hotel would be still thriving.

I've watched a lot of abounded hotel videos on here, great find and thanks for filming it. Crazy, how clean and untouched the hotel is .

Honestly, this hotel is in better shape than a lot of hotels that are still running.

I Visit a ton of Holiday Inns on Road Trips, so seeing a modern one in a condition like this is very eerie.

Cool video. You said "it's interesting to see a place this early on after being abandoned" like 4 times lol. I'm a building inspector and I've been in a couple creepy abandoned buildings. They are definitely unsettling. One was a midrise office building that had 1 small tenant on the first floor. It had been Compaq computers building but they went bankrupt. I walked around the abandoned upper floors alone and it was creepy. Another was an office tower that had done some remodeling in the basement. Went to inspect it with maintenance guy and we walked through an abandoned basement tenant space frozen in time. The basement had flooded like 7 years earlier during a tropical storm and so all the calendars on the wall were from 2001. It was very strange.

So sad to see such a unique place go down, and those vandalizers going in marking it up, so very sad.

Very cool video Jake. Interesting to see a hotel in the early stages of decay as opposed to many of your other videos like the snippet you inserted in this one.

“You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.” ― David Levithan This quote couldn't be any truer, than in an abandoned hotel that was lost to the COVID-19 economy, literally frozen in time. Just like the one you have shown. Thank you for filming this video.

I wonder if they ever get nervous going in abandoned places. What if you accidentally stumble upon someone's living quarters, or come across a dead body. Its amazing that you risk your safety like this to provide us first hand footage of the abandoned places of America/Canada. Love from Toronto 🇨🇦

Very beautiful life and such a pure soul this child. Treasure your elders and live the life you have, in a pure way. God bless you Ahmet

Very eerie. Hope they do something with it before it gets worse. Thanks for sharing. ❤

Holiday Inn had a few of these same convention/hotel with covered atriums spread across the northeast. They did well with trade shows during the week and wedding expos, car shows, home improvement shows, Sunday church services, etc on weekends. The rooms need an update for this to reopen. Figure $10-15K per room times 300 = $3-4.5M and $300K minimum for common areas.

its truly sad to see how a building can be let so perfect and get no use. Great video dude. love the content.

It's absolutely wild to think that you could house 300 families here with little issue, but instead it's left to rot because making money is more important than using the structure.

8:50 pool and restaurant photos look amazing!

Just love your channel - great video!!! You’re right, it’s amazing to capture a place like this in a unique stage of decay.

2:18 Actually pretty reasonable prices. Of course service might be a bit slow 😜

My cousin travels thru that area regularly. He told me that it seems like all the ground floor windows are now boarded up, whereas originally it only seemed like a few were. On his last trip driving past, he saw graffiti showing up on the outside of the building or at least the part facing the road. He won't go inside, due to occasional sightings of police cars nearby, but I can't imagine the inside of the place is much better off.

It’s sad that in two years it coming apart, I don’t understand why they let it go and not re open. I heard stories of this place, that ppl were asleep when everyone was being notified that they needed to abandon the hotel due to the pandemic, I believe this story is to this hotel cause I seen same hotel in other videos.

This is so sad.... when I was a teenager in the 70's, one of my friends had a pool party for her birthday here. This used to be a really nice place! Thanks for the tour and memories.

I stayed in an open and functional hotel in MUCH worse shape than this in Lake Havasu a few years ago. It’s really a shame to see such a nice property go in to disrepair like this. Thank you for sharing!

You sure do know how to capture the feeling of EMPTINESS! Love your vids bro !! 🙂🙂

I love these shorts, so well done in telling the story. His voice is perfect for this!!

This is so wild! I have always wondered if this hotel was going to make it. I stayed there for work in 2018 and it was very slow and definitely needed a remodel. Also, those buttermilk pancakes were amazing ! :) Great video as always!!!!

Woah it looks like the rapture happened the way everything is in the exact same place. This is spooky and awesome

The audio that begins at 5:38 reminds me of the Safe Room in Resident Evil. Great exploration video!

Great all-around presentation. Thanks. Take it easy.

Great video Jake! My first job while still in hs was as a "isle attendant" at our local Marriott. When it was discovered I could cook I was promoted to "omelet boy" as a member of the Sunday brunch crew. I quickly found myself doing just about every F&B job the hotel had and really enjoyed working there. The '90's corporate aesthetic defined my hotel. Mostly business travelers. We also took in many flight crews coming in from international flights. We enjoyed serving all our guests. Over the years I have stayed at hotels like this one and it always brought back fond memories of Marriott when times were simpler.

This was pretty cool. High five to the graffiti artists who just chilled out and didn't decide to destroy the place.

An incredibly liminal space. Great find and explore!

Reminds me of how I was working in a hotel as a network technician just as the pandemic hit back in March 2020. They'd started the year off talking about their plans for said year, and the hopes they had for growth. And then the pandemic hit, so we had to close for what we assumed would be temporarily. Unfortunately the hotel permanently closed down later that year as we all lost our jobs due to financial issues. I still remember getting the message from my supervisor about how we weren't allowed to go back to the office the following day due to the temporary closure, on what I didn't know at the time would be the last day I worked there. I've been back to that building where I've worked at since then as recent as July of this year, and from the outside it looks pretty much the same, but all the signs of the hotel are gone by now, and I'm left wondering what the interior is like now.

This does a good job of showing why so many buildings decay so quickly when empty. So many little things that add up, a drip here, a broken window there...it's a full time job for more than one person to simply secure a building like this, let alone fix it. If it isn't making money they aren't going to pay a crew six figures to keep it like it was... Once it gets to the point of no return and they have to tear it down, they just leave it because that cost money too and now at least they have nothing else to lose. You can't steal the land. So many people don't realize what goes into maintaining a building...especially anything of this size. Including the dumb developers that tend to buy the old hotels on their 5th, 6th, 7th owner/brand name...

Been a while since you done a walkthrough, absolutely loved this! Hope to see another full length documentary from you guys, Closed for Storm was fantastic.

actually i didn't expect it to be this clean and untouched, such a great video love it!

Beautiful place. Sorry for it's lost! I like it very much!

There's always something sad and mesmerizing about places like this. Especially one in this condition. I do wish this place gets rejuvenated.

Back to the original format of abandoned exploring, love it!

This is crazy! This hotel is right in my area! When you passed the 518 rainbow thing I knew it was in my area, it’s a thing that happened during covid that attempted to brighten people’s days, it’s an interesting hotel. Me and my friend have road around it and peaked inside! Super cool find!

Video after video like this it breaks my heart to see things just rotting away when they could totally be put to good use if it weren't for money; it's often money that causes this abandonment to happen in the first place. Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks so much for this Jake! I stayed here once when I was a kid, but I recognized it right away (I’m local to the area). I remember staying in one of the rooms overlooking the pool. Amazing to see it again one last time!

I like the graffiti artist who made the pool-based puns like “don’t be so shallow” and “it’s not that deep, bro”. If you must, that’s how you vandalise something.

This is the first time I've seen an abandoned place video that REALLY accentuated the creepy "liminal space" feel, and the added music at the beginning when they were going through The Grille gave me the most uneasy feeling I've ever experienced. I honestly enjoy these kinds of videos a lot, but yea, this one is the first to give me the heebie-jeebies. Backrooms vibes in abundance.

3:52 real backrooms vibes. You get alot of inspiration in these shots- who ever thought that whatever architecture they make have a shelf life? At least in the sense that it once fulfilled a purpose instead of it’s physical structure.

I love that old holiday inn hotel style with the large atrium with the pool, there’s on like that in Massachusetts and it will probably be adbandoned soon too

Woah! I've stayed there. Still looks almost exactly the same as when I stayed in 2003! I was part of a big group, so there were lots of us. I did enjoy it there! It's shame it has been abandoned now and that nothing has been done to it yet.

This looks like a it was a Holiday Inn Holidome. The open areas may have had a bar and a playground area. They were really popular in the ‘70s and ‘80s. They were designed to feel like a year-round resort and had lots of indoor activity space. Just my guess from staying at a few when our kids were little.🌸

Man, that is so crazy to see an abandoned place in its infancy. You should come back a few years later to compare and contrast. Still can't believe they left two pianos in pristine condition here. I'm going to be honest, when you were approaching one of them in the dark, I was imagining it coming alive with big sharp teeth ala Super Mario 64. Lol

So crazy! You should do an abandoned video on Chippawa lake in Medina Ohio. Neat little amusement park, it’s famous around Cleveland but not as famous as Euclid Beach Park.

thats insane i was there in 2020 in February for a convention and saw it in working order. this was literally right before covid. it was strangely cool to see this place that i have been in before closing now abandoned. sadly the area around it is very uhhhhhhh sketchy to say the least. but hey theres a mall down the road that's not been doing so well and since its so close to the airport i bet it'll be a real soon

omg i used to stay here! this has been aggressively suggested to me for months, so glad i finally clicked. i had no idea it even closed!

I stayed here twice, once for a convention, once when I was in town teaching. The first time I got a room near the pool and the chlorine smell was so bad I had a headache within hours. The second time spent half the night in the arcade playing video games! We always speculated that the design was a true motor inn (motel) when built (the rooms facing the pool would originally have been outside, and thus no smell) but were enclosed to provide the indoor convention space to compete with nearby “resorts.” The structure of the steel supports for the metal ceiling (and the generally echoey, poorly lit result) kind of lend credit to that theory, but we could never prove it. Love to see some original photos of the building from the 70’s to see if it was a motel first.