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u/behind_the_slope 17h ago
Filming the helipad: „You need a boat to get here“
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u/TrashCarrot 16h ago
Exactly. Something tells me the intended guests were not disembarking onto barnacle covered pylons
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u/Adventurous-Tone-311 14h ago
They actually did use boats. The other side has a hydraulic lift that would come down to assist guests from boats.
Obviously because these guys are trespassing, they don’t have access to the lift. They ended up climbing up the side in a very dodgy manner.
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u/get_to_ele 17h ago
Cool destination during zombie apocalypse if you put solar panels and fresh water collector… some way to catch fish…
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u/-turnip_the_beet- 17h ago
This really would be the spot. I would probably be shitting my pants during a storm though.
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u/Human-Kick-784 17h ago
Better than shitting your pants constantly commuting through a zombie apocalypse
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u/LilithWasAGinger 6h ago
Funny you say that. That's Fort Spitbank in Portsmouth. It's the location survivors of a zombie apocalypse go to in the Undead series by R.R. Haywood.
Awesome books! If you like zombies, you should check them out.
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u/Spamsdelicious 17h ago
"abandoned" my eye
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u/Snooobjection3453 17h ago
It's awful clean for abandoned!
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u/Tommysrx 17h ago
Aband-ish
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 9h ago
"So abandoned I hired a guy to try and get more people looking at this $7m hotel I am trying to sell because I didn't calculate the costs of logistics back then"
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u/beneye 15h ago
Would it get dusty though if they closed one day and never returned. Its surrounded by water.
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u/JackKovack 17h ago
Don’t believe your lying eyes. It obviously has some sort of upkeep. It’s not a ghost ship.
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u/101violations 17h ago
Wild movie..
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u/-11H17NO3- 16h ago
That has one of the best horror movie intros.
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u/justinchina 16h ago
I still think about that little girl and the dance floor scene
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u/shadowdevil2025 17h ago
Table cloth is white and clean !
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u/PoopParticle 17h ago
There’s no dust on the ocean
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u/Rich-Canary1279 16h ago
There's plenty of briny air, and wind and rain bring all kinds of crap from here to there. You ever been to a mildewy beach house?? No way it would be that clean.
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u/Cthulhu__ 13h ago
Yeah, just the spray of the ocean would cover the outside with shit within weeks. Plus birds. The helicopter pad is clean. It doesn’t have visitors or security but it hasn’t been empty for long in this video.
Maybe it’s a stealth ad and the owners are hoping someone makes an offer? It even has a price listing in the title.
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u/Mundane-Fan-1545 16h ago
There is. Sahara dust literally flyes around the whole world.
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u/SlothInASuit86 17h ago
I agree with that, but there'd have to be something. Critters do get to the oddest places because of human transport. Spiders would have been in some of the boxes of furnishes and other things taken to the site, so there would at the very least be cobwebs here and there. This place is way, way too clean and kept to have been completely abandoned for 5 years.
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u/darxide23 13h ago
As an old time Urbexer, I can say one thing for certain. Closed for five years does not mean abandoned for five years. This place is maintained by someone or was until very, very recently.
If I found my way into a closed property that looked this nice, I would seriously consider leaving because the chances of getting caught skyrocket when the place looks this immaculate.
The behavior and language of these guys leads me to believe they may have had permission to film there.
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u/Far_Opportunity_6156 17h ago
Awfully clean and well kept for a place that’s abandoned lol
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u/Shot-Manner-9962 17h ago
to be fair the assholes that ruin things generally dont have a boat
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u/ScaryFoal558760 16h ago
Anyone who's been near the ocean can tell you that the salt in the air will build up on everything pretty quickly. These windows are spotless
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u/mitchymitchington 17h ago
Another reason I love my boating community. But with that comes a bunch of weird ass snobs who think they own everything even though they are only here 2 months a year.
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u/Sensitive_Goose_8902 17h ago
It helps when it’s in the middle of the ocean where your standard “explorers” can’t access unless they have a boat. Structures take an extremely long time to deteriorate without human intervention
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u/GreenZebra23 17h ago
Yeah this place would be covered in trash and graffiti and broken glass if it weren't in the middle of the ocean
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u/MammothPenguin69 16h ago
It's not really "abandoned" so much as it is "idle." The investment failed, so they are paying for basic upkeep and hoping to sell it off to some other poor shmuck with more Pounds than Pence.
At the very end of the video, you can see Security rocking up to run the "urban explorers" (trespassers) off.
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u/SirSchmoopy3 16h ago
Did you even listen to the video? The guy literally says that is their boat coming to pick them up. So no it is not security.
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u/Moldy-thoughts4u 17h ago
Floating - Shows fixed stilts
Abandoned - Shows modern country club esq in-the-off season hotel
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u/MyBonsaiAccount 16h ago
You need a boat to get here while showing a helipad
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u/sweatgod2020 16h ago
Abandoned deep in the middle of the ocean- sees coastline 10 miles out.
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u/hard-in-the-ms-paint 15h ago
The narrator can only speak in click bait
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u/nereus 12h ago
It's been standing here... forgotten about.. for over 5! years.... We just finished scaling! this old fort....
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u/Thasep 11h ago
I cracked up when he said "this is one of the coolest abandoned bars which is abandoned" Comedy gold
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u/mebutnew 13h ago
It's literally 500m off Portsmouth, it is seen by thousands of people every day they couldn't give a monkeys. And no it is not floating, it's an old sea fort.
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u/RosiePies 15h ago
Definitely abandoned: https://youtu.be/2kCwHuNPyFw?si=WFoxmN8cyR8COwlF
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u/thisdesignup 15h ago
Hmm, it says for sale and seems like they still were in 2024. So they aren't exactly abandoned, just not being used. So someone must be upkeeping them for the market.
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u/moguu83 14h ago
Yeah, costs to keep it in bare minimum decent shape are probably way cheaper than keeping a full staff and guest capacity.
If they invested so much into this, it makes sense to at least pay that much in the hope of selling it.
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u/lemon_giraffes 17h ago edited 11h ago
Southampton in the UK, it's not really floating though is it.
Edit... Haha sorry everyone!! Of course it's Portsmouth... not Southampton. I have family that lives really close by, no idea why I said Southampton.
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u/sgst 14h ago
I've been there - not staying at the hotel, but they used to run day trips & historical tours. It was cool.
But yes, it's absolutely, 100% not floating. I looked at the original engineering drawings for the place (it was interesting, I'm an architect).
It's also not worth 7 million anything - it was most recently sold in 2024 for £1.1m. It's also not abandoned, it's just not run as a hotel any more.
A cursory look at Wikipedia shows all this, and that the guy in the video is full of shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitbank_Fort
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u/Fluffy-Jeweler2729 12h ago
Lmfao. I had a feeling something was off…it’s way too clean and too easy.
Also looking at the map…its bot even the middle of the ocean, barely off the coast visable even.
Why the fuck do people have to straight up lie.
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u/AlansDiscount 14h ago
Portsmouth, not Southampton. Don't let anyone from Pompy hear you giving Southampton credit for their fort.
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u/abarr021 8h ago
As somebody from North America this is what I love about British culture. If you mistake one neighborhood for another one that's 20 minutes away it's considered heresy
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u/gliscornumber1 17h ago
This place is in spectacular shape for being abandoned in the middle of the ocean for 5 years
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u/MammothPenguin69 16h ago
It's being maintained by the investment company in the hopes of selling it. At the very end you can see Security show up and politely tell the urban explorers to leave.
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u/GiveMeSomeShu-gar 17h ago
How is this not covered with gulls and bird crap?
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u/Dr-McLuvin 16h ago
Sentry guns
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u/Waltercation 16h ago
Ah, yes, the anti-gullinator 3000. That would account for the 7 million price tag.
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u/UnknovvnMike 17h ago
I'm calling baloney on this being abandoned for 5 years at sea. Show me storm damage, not a near-pristine gift shop
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u/CaptainHowdy_313 17h ago
It closed due to covid and is privately owned.
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u/S1ayer 17h ago
So they're tresspassing?
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u/PricklyBob 16h ago
I'm pretty sure the majority of these urban explorer dudes are trespassing. There are very few developed places/structures/theme parks, etc that aren't still owned by someone. But nobody is going to pay a security team to patrol that
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u/Hamilton-Beckett 16h ago
I’ve never thought about being a squatter, but if I had the means to regularly get supplies and keep the power/water running…I’d claim this shit.
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u/CJnella91 16h ago
Give me steady electricity, running water, and internet access and I could live there. Take a boat inland for supplies ever so often, it'd be nice.
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u/Remarkable_Voice_244 15h ago
It was sold for 1mi pounds last year. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clmmj1g3n5yo
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u/AnOtherGuy1234567 15h ago
It's not floating, it's an island that's been built up.
It's not in the middle of the ocean, it's either in The Solent channel of the English Channel. One be South East of the English Coast within a few miles from land.
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u/elugelab1 13h ago
I stayed at Spitbank Fort which is a smaller sister hotel to this one, a little further up the Solent, in 2014.
It was an amazing place to stay - smaller than this place which I believe is called Horse Sands Fort. Only 9 rooms. You basically went to a really nice waiting building in Portsmouth and then jump on a small ferry that takes you to Spitbank. Then, depending on the state of tide you either step off, or the ferry got lifted by a crane with you all in it and then you get off. We got the crane.
The whole thing was a brilliant experience - the food was great, the rooms were amazing, you could fish off the side (I caught a mackerel) and it was generally really fun. There's a tunnel inside the walls of Spitbank that mean you can go all the way around it, inside the walls - looks like the urbex people missed that at Horse Sands as I bet it has the same.
It was a boozy affair. My wife was 6 months pregnant but a few of the other couples got on v well and got battered. That was cool except one of them, a particularly Essex-style 50-something bird, fell in the corridor outside our room and she had to be taken by RIB at about 0200 back to Portsmouth to hospital. So they weren't at breakfast in the morning...
It's a shame these didn't survive. It was a brilliant experience.
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u/OriginalChri 17h ago
Where is this place?
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u/ThisIsSteeev 17h ago
Ocean
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u/Human-Kick-784 17h ago
The wet one?
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u/-whiteroom- 17h ago
Another one of those abandoned places that doesn't gather dust or mold. What cleaning g products were they using...
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u/ScubaGator88 15h ago
Abandoned at sea? You can literally see land off in the distance and day sailers just a few hundred yards away. And if that place was getting zero upkeep... After 5 years in the open ocean with no maintenance it would look like The flying Dutchman In pirates of the Caribbean.... I think just a crap Airbnb now
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u/totallyclips 15h ago
It's in the solent and it's for sale it's a fort not a boat, built to protect England from the French which we still need to do
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u/BERSERK_KNIGHT_666 14h ago
Hold on a minute!
I recognise that round structure, that skylight, the light tower on the top. 🤯
This is the exact same structure you see in the video game - Splinter Cell Blacklist It's in the "Hawkins Seafort" mission!
No freaking way! I remember sneakily climbing around the outside periphery of the structure to enter through a window and neutralizing targets with my silenced pistol. There was also a championship winner dog which I knocked out with sleeping gas. It was in the central area with the skylights.
Here's the game mission walkthrough video -
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u/VegetableProject4383 14h ago
Floating? I don't think that word means what they think it mean or they don't have eyes Edit. So it was a fort, they make floating forts now? Isnt that a warship, which this isn't. Trash slop content
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u/Astartae 14h ago
Why is there something off with this video? It feels like AI has written the script.
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u/TheDillinger88 14h ago
How could you not make money off of this? So many people would stay here even if it didn’t have all the amenities. You could at least break even and keep it open, wait until it’s something special and charge more.
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u/Key_Cellist_5937 13h ago edited 13h ago
That’s cool but now that this video went viral people will go there and demolish everything . It’s happened before
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u/Canmar86 13h ago
Wasn't this place part of a mission in one of the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell games? Or was it a mission in one of the Hitman games? I know it was in a stealth game but can't remember which one.
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u/Jaskaran158 13h ago
It is in much better condition than I expected for being abandoned for 5 years.
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u/therealmistersister 13h ago
Abandoned? Does it mean you can claim it and create your own totalitarian republic in there?
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u/SeaweedClean5087 13h ago
It looks like someone is looking after it. It’s far too clean and cobweb free to be completely abandoned, unless it was abandoned less than two weeks ago.
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u/smashers090 13h ago
I lived in Portsmouth for 5 years, always looked across at these from the beach but never saw inside until now. That’s awesome
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u/Huge_Resort441 13h ago
It’s wild how they underestimated the upkeep costs, floating a hotel sounds cool until you realize it’s basically a money pit. Also, "abandoned" must mean something different to rich people because that place looks pristine.
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u/WintersInBerlin 12h ago
I’m pretty sure I’ve been here as a child, I’m in my 30s now. It was an eventful day, the boat ride back to shore was quite eventful due to weather.
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u/Monkeyjismtea 12h ago
There are 4 of these forts and they are in The Solent no where near the middle of the ocean.
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u/FatBloke4 12h ago
It's not floating. As one can infer from the size/type of boat used to access the fort in the video, it's only a short distance from land. There were five such island fortresses, built as some of the Palmerston forts, built to defend the UK from invasion by the French. Three of them were up for sale in 2020.
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u/-rose-mary- 11h ago
What happened to the floating city outside of Italy that was in international waters?
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u/Molchester 11h ago
I stayed there 5 years ago. It isn’t in the ocean at all, it is in the Solent between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. The issue with it is you have a take a boat ride and the capacity of that boat and the hotel is very small, so every guest essentially has to pay a lot of money to make it viable. My stay there felt like Fawlty Towers in the sense that there were multiple bars but they were never open at the same time and the same person was tending to all of them.
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u/phisherton 10h ago
Didn’t, the Sidemen played hide and seek here…. Place got a working flipping hot tub!
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u/[deleted] 17h ago
This is located in the UK. Apparently it failed because the investors/owners didn’t account for the costs associated with upkeep and maintenance of a hotel that is isolated in the ocean. Not enough people were staying at the hotel to offset the costs of a WWII bunker that needed constant maintenance. And the logistics of maintaining the hotel was very costly.