Astonishing ABANDONED Florida Resort Near Disney

and when you're here you won't be far from walt

disney

world fdot center sea world universal studios come to

florida

and stay in the center of it all breaking down under the hot

florida

sun this mega

resort

was once the largest hotel in central florida largest than any

resort

, even within Disney, but this is not just any

abandoned

hotel, it is something special. In this video, I'll show you what's inside by exploring the ruins of this huge property everywhere from the spacious back areas of the house to the surreal. lobby and the vast convention spaces, we'll also find out what happened here and what could have been, so let's start where it all began.

The Disney company opened the Walt Disney World Resort in October 1971. Cars lined up for miles as the theme park was already a huge success, to the point that its two hotels and campground were constantly full. automobile orlando center multi-hotel condominium and entertainment facility just a thousand feet away from the resort kingdom would contain more than 2,600 hotel rooms and would include a motel a 22-story hotel tower and a shopping plaza the crown jewel of this development would be the 650 foot observation tower touted as the tallest structure in florida, phase one of the project would first begin in 1972 with the 960 room lando engine to support all of these rooms, a large back of house facility was built and we are going to start there with golf carts overturned and stripped of parts, looks like look at this too, this is it, uh, this is like the parking area for all the resort service vehicles, paint is peeling off the shower unit , the outside shower unit, this is the courtyard of one of the four groups of hotel rooms that made up the hotel's 960 rooms, each would contain 240 rooms and would clearly feature a garden and a swimming pool, although these buildings show the architecture from the 1970s and later we will take a look inside them to find out the price.

With an investment of one hundred million dollars, the complex was destined to be the largest hotel in Florida when all was said and done after the completion of phase one in January 1973, with the Motor Inn being the rest would soon follow in the following years in satellite photographs of This time you can see the rest of the site preparing for construction. However, this would never happen. Cara Lando wouldn't even last a full year. The company defaulted on interest-bearing loans worth about $2.2 million and lost about the same amounts for the year. At the end of his first year, those future plans were suddenly scrapped and the property passed into the hands of his mortgage lender, who put it up for sale.

The hotel was sold to Hyatt Corporation, who renamed the property Orlando Hyatt House. They spent money on new gardens and started. construction of the largest convention center in central Florida. Hyatt would continue to operate the property as a luxury hotel resort for many successful decades. Then we have the delicatessen and pizza area and the souvenir market with the faint noise of a kasemi tourist helicopter above oh wow All of this is completely completely intact, it's still okay to some extent, at least I want to say that the shelves are still here, the pizza boxes are still here, the menu, the ceiling fans and look there are just buckets around trying to catch it but obviously no intensive care and stuff like this why didn't they move all this and look at the damage caused by the water here?

Just water picking up the smashed Coca-Cola machines. Look at this trellis. Oh wow, look at that collapse over there. Wow, the water damage here it is. significantly worse than I thought, all this ceiling damage is, uh, probably not even vandals, it's probably just water leaking in and completely knocking down these ceiling tiles, the lobby is in the center of everything, guests They would, of course, register here but they would also socialize. partying and dying in the '70s, it looked quite different and was a revolutionary design for the time that combined all those amenities plus a commercial angle and is now a family-friendly hotel space in a Florida theme park locked in its final year of operation As a Small Disclaimer I understand that finding the location of this hotel will not be difficult, however, I would like to warn you that there is security on site and I strongly recommend that you do not visit this property, but if you do, please do not destroy, vandalize or steal anything and help preserve this amazing time capsule of history.

It is extremely quiet. It looks like all the carpet covering here is just a ceiling tile that fell from the ceiling. Oh my god, the ceiling is or the carpet is completely green. from the water over the moss that grows on it and a little cafe up here a very classic little Florida diner everything is dead except the fake ones the buffet is not served tonight but I still have the trays where you would put all the food a trellis on the same entrance of this buffet that is not aligned with the staircase of the buffet section, which bothers me. stand right here is like a bar right here and then oh wow it's a fountain that's a main lobby fountain so this was the whole dining room on unless I guess this would have been the main lobby yeah the benches around the palm trees, check in down there and yeah, here's the bar, these palm trees look like they're alive, I think they're just growing. on the other side of the floor I don't know where, although wow planet hollywood free appetizer I wonder if this is still acceptable oh my God, it's like standing in Kissimmee, let's see, I have the service area right here with the whole theme park, all The theme park stuff. went crazy right here, which has been closed for years, orlando sun souvenirs, oh my gosh, it's like everything is still there, at least the shelves, I should say, are showing, oh yeah, I just heard a raindrop under the ceiling, which is extremely moldy, authentic, look how moldy. this chair is oh my god, I can't be here for long, but holy cow, wow, these look extremely old, this is a huge, this is a huge blueprint, uh, right here, look at all the buildings we're in this one structure, right?

Here in the lobby area of ​​the central building, in 1977, the hotel was sold again and then renamed simply Hyatt Orlando. It continued to operate as a favorite resort near the Disney entrance for more than 30 years, until the tourism crisis that followed September 11, 2001. Hyatt was no exception and likely saw more than 50 of its regular occupancy disappear. Disney themselves were struggling and pricing hotel rooms at rock bottom prices, as low as 77 nights, which was very difficult for Hyatt to compete with just a few months later in May 2002. It was revealed that they had stopped making payments on their debt of $22 million in September 2003.

Bankruptcy was inevitable and the resort was abruptly closed with only one day's notice. A chain link fence was erected around the perimeter and the future of the property was in doubt. now it's on, this is pitch black here, look at all the ovens, the huge mixer over there, I guess there are pictures of how the food is supposed to be prepared, oh, look at this peanut stamp, oh, like there's still more cooking in here, oh, it's a popcorn machine oh, well, there's obviously still coke syrup in there, so it's seeping through that box, there must have been like a soda that exploded in this or something it just ate the metal.

Wow, who's throwing this out a window? What is this literally? It looks like a hospital, not a hotel corridor, holy smokes, there are thousands of dishes in here. Yes, this is the convention center after an auction in 2004, a company purchased the complex with plans to return it to its original state. They also considered other ideas such as tearing it down. all and building a large tower on the sites called Landmark Sun Resort and Spa, they decided to postpone this and instead open the asset as it was, in the meantime they spent 5 million dollars on renovations and opened it under their own banner in 2007.

They called it orlando sun lexington resort wow this is a huge room oh wow a huge dragonfly i can't believe none of these windows are broken cute oh oh my goodness oh wow really oh my goodness oh look at these chandeliers it's still incredibly intact, actually, This whole room is quite dry and quite well preserved. Reviews from guests staying at the now-open resort did not return. Exactly with this, sometime between 2009 and 2011, the resort was being branded by Ramada, but this didn't help with the bad reviews. Clearly, things were being run on the cheap and many employees were living in the sites and clusters of closed hotel rooms.

Down for extended periods of time, this led to higher maintenance costs and management often failed to pay some employees for months, resulting in a lawsuit in 2011. After changing back to its final name in 2012, the occupancy was low and with maintenance costs ever increasing, the complex was closed for good, I'm just going to wear my mask for this one. From here you see the entire lobby, well, you can see how it's collapsing. Oh yes, they are plastic letters. Actually, I have an idea. Here we go, it works. Wow, that's it. great photo oh look at the hyatt orlando pool near walt

disney

world resort look at this this is from 1986. meet our new general manager 1985 hyatt orlando oh there's that ice cream shop we saw earlier in the lobby here's a map fact sheets downtown conventions stuff, oh wow, look at that guy who looked great back in the day, certainly not anymore in 2014, the site was put up for sale for $75 million, didn't sell, and was put up for sale again in 2018 The most recent news came in 2021 when it was reported that a New York company was in negotiations to purchase the property for $35 million.

Their intentions were to maintain the existing structures and reformat them into condominiums. Oh yeah, they're a little torn up. Wow, they are in very good condition. Yes, it seems that all the rooms are approximately. Same here, unless you know the history, this seemingly innocuous resort could be any other hotel outside of Disney, but it certainly was much more than that, not only was it the largest hotel in central Florida and one of the first in open based on Walt Disney World's next hit, but it was intended to be a destination in itself, if fully built it would have been the tallest structure in the area for decades, but even with what it was built it is absolutely massive , so it's rare for such a large lodging property to fail like this, but it's a series of slow-motion events spanning decades that ultimately lead to something like this happening, but it's also easy to forget the human aspect of this resort , it was a place to stay for millions of families on their way to Disney, probably having very good memories for them, it will always be the auto orlando motor inn or the orlando hyatt house the hyatt orlando or even the orlando sun.

Of course, I've stayed in many hotels around Disney property, so being here and knowing what once was is an eerie, surreal feeling that's especially true when darkness consumed my surroundings. It's a feeling I will never forget. Thank you for watching.