Ha I recognize this place. This has recently been torn down for those that would hope to visit this place. For some strange reason they left only the playground.. Nice video by the way. I used to drive by this mess every day when I worked for the mouse. It has been in that state since Hurricane Charley. Many motels up the 192 strip fell victim to this. Especially on the east side of I 4. For this one in particular it got worse and worse. They went so far as to pull entire walls out and remove beds they were stacked in piles in the parking lot.

Your voice is so soothing. I could listen to you all day :).

@TikiTrex

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nice compliment :)

@MonicaGalang

10 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I'm a new subscriber and I excited to see all the places you have explored. :)

Thanks! It's actually hard to find explorations in this part of Florida because places are so heavily boarded with posted signs. I was surprised to see how open this place was.

@thebrunetteinroom7

2 жыл бұрын

I love your Florida vids the most. Great job

Another great video Tiki. You find some great places to explore. Always great to watch and great you research the best you can. Keep up the good work;)

enjoyed this video,you do such a nice job with your commentary!! so glad you're back Pam,missed you!

so brave of you to do this alone

"And I smell vomit" LOL

I've passed this so many time on my way from the dentist and every time i say "I really wanna go in there" now i don't have to lol

I'm gonna watch all your vids, I like your running commentary and sweet voice. You're a brave young lady going alone to places like abandoned motels, which is often a place for drifters & junkies...you seem more afraid of spiders ~ bless you :) Did you find the lobby and restaurant?

I going to watch every vid you have posted I love looking at the things you post

Awesome Find, Thanks Ms. Tiki

Neat find! The pool looked like a cement pond. Actually, I've seen cleaner ponds! Thanks for sharing!

Great video Pam,thanks so much for your videos

Nice work. Believe it or not, I recall staying at that place with folks back in the 70's. Glad to see you back on the job as well, I've always enjoyed your work.

Very well done video, TikiTrex! Very enjoyable!

I love your videos. You have a soothing voice.

I really like your abandoned hotel videos. I hope you do more in the future. I do remember seeing an abandoned Howard Johnson off of I 95 in South Carolina. Not sure if it's still there anymore.

Hi, loved this video...Drove by here a few weeks ago while doing some exploring on vacation, and the whole area is flattened except for a huge dune of sand in the middle ready for building work.. no sign left :(

Just found your channel today ...you rock ...keep posting I love your vids! !

So funny about your fear of arachnids considering some of the places you explore! lol Great video, glad you squeezed in the pool at the end

I'm happy when I see comments as yours. Someone who have been to the place when it was functional.Thanks.

Just stumbled across your vids... and I am in LOVE! You do a wonderful job!!!! I love abandoned buildings... but honestly I am just scared to go in them. Besides the fear of spiders (I am just as bad as you...lol) it's fear of the weirdos out there that stop me. Thankfully, you are doing "the job" for me! I love your commentary and you have the sweetest voice and accent. Thank you so much for posting. PLEASE be safe/careful out there!

Nice video guys !

I love these videos! You rock!

Interesting: before this I always thought paper wasps didn't build nests on metal. That nixes my idea of tacking metal sheets under the eaves of my house. Thank you!

Nice video!!! I used to work for a couple of hotels in my early years and the reason why that one room is so big is because some hotels have the manager live on site so the hotel will make them something like an apartment. It's one of the perks for being a manager at some hotels, living rent free so they can keep an eye on things 24/7.

so cool, thanks for posting!

Love this . Thanks

awesome video. great job.

I love video's like this! I subscribed. 😘

@TikiTrex

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

maybe the former owner/owners couldn't afford the upkeep..plus all the repairs.and what with the motel itself,being in such a prime location,i think they went under..sad great footage,Tiki..and as always,enjoyed your commentary..

Saw this place when on vacation from the UK ,but did not have the bottle to go in. Well done,Great video

You are so brave to explore that place by yourself... I could never ever do that.... scary...

I love this, please film more Hotels/Motels.

i know another viewer commented on the Brunos menu. from what i could find on this restaurant: There is a Bruno's Restaurant in Kissimmee that dropped the Cafe Italiano, but is still in the same place. i think the phone number is different now. the neon sign stands for carving station; there is a LUNCH DINNER sign behind it. the restaurant must have been a good sized room! Your videos are the best!

+ Tiki Trex That's crazy! I used to live in Kissimmee in the early 80s and remember this place as a busy, popular motel off 192, then it was a Super 8. I think Disney owns all this property. Thanks for another great video

@TheJohnDShow1

8 жыл бұрын

+Cin Dee I stayed at that property with my then Girl friend now wife back in 1997.

@CinDee

8 жыл бұрын

Hotel Travler Crazy! It was a really nice place! Then!

@TheJohnDShow1

8 жыл бұрын

It was nice and not too expensive for one night back then. We stayed on the first floor. I remember staying in the back area away from the office and Restaurant.

Thanks, Michael! Yeah, I always wonder that, also. I think that is part of the fun for me while exploring them trying to search for clues.

great job Tiki

Good video. In Florida, you don't have to worry about the really big spiders...you can hear them breathing before they get too close :)

Neat find tiki. I wouldn't be surprised if people were living in there. Great Video

Oh no don't let the ivy strangle you! Great video!

I like spiders, very beneficial. But, the Brown Recluse spider, very dangerous, and sneaky. Nice vid keep on truckin..

I used to travel a lot when I was young. I mostly slept in rest areas, but sometimes I'd splurge and stay in a motel. It's kind of sad seeing a place like this abandoned and in such disrepair. Watching this I can imagine all the people who stayed there over the years, and the people who worked there.

this is so much the style of the hotel i was in last october. and that was also in kissimie i think also somewhere on 192 and near disney i did not see this, maybe by now it has been destroyed or maybe i did just not see it ;) but the style of the buildings is so much like where i stayed

nice job with this 1 =)

Thanks, Chris. Sounds like you're in a good location.

so sad ...vacationed here back in 1996 and it was beautiful then ..well kept ... so sad that all remains are memories ...

Thanks, Jim!

Down in Florida, not far away from where I am. Great video though.. Nice job

Oh yes, u saved the best for the last An Abandoned pool, yeah man, my favorite!! Creepy and fascinating!

I know it's been awhile since you made this but wow what a disaster!

Hi, thanks! An interesting thing to mention: Kissimmee was THE place to visit if you sold Tupperware, esp. in its earliest days, as it was the resort-headquarters where glamorous conferences and award ceremonies were held; in the 1980s when the basic patent expired on the design of the Tupperware seal, business practices changed and the glory years of celebrating Tupperware in Kissimmee too...see the video online at: www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/tupperware-tupper/ btw, this video shows how some really old kitchens used to look and they remind me of the houses you video, really amazing!!

Thank you! I appreciate that!

I enjoyed it to. well done miss.more more ! please

Thanks so much for your comments, Walker! I'm glad you like them :)

When you said better watch out for snakes I got excited because I love all animals and snakes is definately one of them

Thank you!

My wife and I stayed at a Super 8 in Kissimme FL and this place looks familiar. Was this location off of Hwy 192?? We stayed back in 1997 or so.

That place reminds me of some college dorms we once had on the college campus where i used to work..Most where once old motels that the college bought and remodeled for freshman students..20 years later or so we torn them down and built new housing in the locations that these once where..

Too bad I missed it. Sounds like a great time to explore, and a great time to go to Disney without the line-ups :)

Worked Security at Hertiage Park in Kissimme Fl, 3 days country music event.I think that we passed by this. I will be heading back to it one day

Wow! This makes me sad, my wife and I stayed at this very place in 97, when the whole of that area on the 192 was buzzing. We returned in 2003 (I think) but we were lucky enough to stay at the Mystic Dunes golf resort off the 192, again it was all still a very busy area. I remember there being a big inflatable Elvis on the corner, that was our marker, haha. Having watched some other videos it's shocking what's happened to the area since Disney built all their resort hotels. Very, very sad.

Hy Tiki , again a nice video.. I'm amazed how you find these plases Wow. Just like I red in one of the comments, yes I'm also wondering what the story is behind a place like this.. Greetz from your fan in the Netherlands..

I remember this its abandoned because it caught on fire I use to live on room 205 with my kids and husband I remember this like yesterday. It was terrible many of us lost everything.

Another great video tiki; I know it was may a while ago but it's new to me; it was a very detailed video showing everything including the small lizard, I think that spiders are creepy also...but nothing freaks me out more than those "Palmetto Roaches" flying around then they land on you an kinda cling there..ah!!! its like they just left everything behind; there must of been thousands of dollars worth of equipment left behind; those door locks and key cards are worth $250.00 each after they have been used...do you every worry about why the folks left in such a hurry? you know...bio-hazardous stuff?

@TikiTrex

8 жыл бұрын

+David Rodriguez Thanks! Yes, those palmetto bugs are something else! There are a lot of abandonments along this stretch. Ever since the resorts opened on Disney property, less people are staying at the smaller motels off grounds causing them to go bankrupt and subsequently, close down.

cool,, you were in FL,, right by Adam the Woo, he also did this motel, I like when 2 different people do them,, different looks and all

Good job...

Thank u n b safe

I stayed at that hotel when I was little with family mid 80s it's close to Disney world

Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate that! :)

I stayed in this motel in March 1978 when it was called the Royal Scotsman Inn. It was out there all alone as nothing had been developed on US 192. All I remember seeing when driving from the motel to Disney World was a real estate/developer's office along the way. I don't know if the motel pre-dates Disney World or was one of the first off-site motels. Motel is on Sherberth Rd just off US 192. In 1978, Sherberth Rd didn't turn to cross 192 at a right angle and was right next to the pool.

That is very nice of you to say. I'm glad you are enjoying my videos :)

Awesome video! I am still wondering why this hotel closed. You would think with it being so close to Disney World someone would pay for the upkeep of the place....

was this under the highway that had a tollbooth on it? it looks so familiar..looks like the place we stayed with our friends and the kids back in 1992..

would be awsome to find the most obscure out of the way motel room and secretly fix it up and live in it. LED battery lighting, clean it up and paint it. Put a new lock on the door with a sign on it that states "sewerage flood inside do not enter"

My pleasure! I'm not away right now. I spent the winter in Florida, so I had shot this during then.

Could of taken damage during a storm and they didnt have the insurance or funds to come back from it. There may have been some unseen structural damage as well. Or possibly the main building for the office and resturaunt caught fire and was demoed already and the salvaged items kept in the rooms.

Tell me, "that pool did not have lily pads in it"!

I keep thinking left for dead 2

Thank you for the sweet comment! Yes, definitely an arachnaphobe. There was a separate building where the restaurant probably was which is still being used as a restaurant today with a different name. I'm assuming the lobby was part of it in that building.

Also Bruno's is down about 3 miles. They have been there since 1994 so I don't know why they would have menus there unless they were just advertising. The main building is still standing and was recently home to a steak house/Mexican buffet.

I don't blame you for not liking spiders after that. Brown recluses are one that I hope I never have to come across one day. I've seen bite pictures and it doesn't look pretty.

Thank you for your inspiring comment! It means a lot :)

Tiki, is that a monitor on @ 3:56 or a square hole in the wall? Not as much stuff in the rooms like Georgia.

@supercirco1

8 жыл бұрын

+trenchant2 I thought it was a tv

I like it

Yes, that is very true. The buildings seem to come alive during the process of deterioration as nature takes its course.

You're correct Best value inn is what hotel was called in the end. I stayed there with a group in 2001 when it was Best Western. Gonna be heading there in a month for a video. Just did one at a hotel next door that turned into Southeastern School. U didn't see it cause it's VERY hidden.

@TikiTrex

10 жыл бұрын

I know the hotel you are thinking of along with the Southeastern School hidden in behind. This hotel is much further down 192, but they do look similar. Southeastern School had a gate with no trespassing signs on it last I was there, so I never went in,

@BaseballandGraveyards

10 жыл бұрын

***** Wow. thought this was the one right next to it. Pretty pathetic considering I'm from the general area.

If you check my channel, there are an extensive number of places I've explored and have yet to encounter any squatters or crackheads. And if I do come across a bad one, I'll kick that person's ass, lol.

Another Hmmmmm one, LOL. I was gonna comment I bet all the items were auctioned off with all the rooms empty, AC/heating units all gone, etc. But then you hit the "stash" rooms, very odd. Kinda hard to burn a concrete and steel building also....LOL. In Florida my worst fear would be nasty snakes!!

Wow, I think I'd have a heart attack if that happened to me! lol Thanks for watching and commenting! Glad you enjoyed it :)

You can tell this is a older hotel. It maybe was once in a good location but Disney World has changed and offer hotel stay now and families can get a better package deal when visiting.

are there any coordinates to see the place in google maps? by the way a nice video :)

If I was homeless in that area, I'd take one of those mattresses and put it in an empty room. Oh and I would've taken that martini glass in a heartbeat lol

Yes, I understand it's not pronounced the way it is spelled, but have difficulty pronouncing it the way it's supposed to. I guess it's easier if you are from the area. Thanks for the comment.

The fire started inside that Laundry room

Hi dumpstermower! I agree. Hopefully they will strip the place of its furniture before they destroy or convert it, if that ever happens. I am terrified of spiders, yet I hate to see them killed, so I usually will capture them in a jar and then take them far down the street and release them, lol. Thanks for commenting and watching!

Was this the hotel Orlando Vacation Resort ? With 4 oer 6 Tennis places? Iam from Germany and i look for a hotel with the name orlando vacations resort i was there in th 1993

Not this one, but I think I know the one you may be talking about. It looked similar to this one, also abandoned, but had a guarded gate house, so no way in.

This looks like the place I stayed at when I was about 5, 1994-5 it was, in kissame (hope thats spelt right XD)

Storm damage in this area, most got checks and left, w/o rebuilding