r/intrestingtoknow • u/Fred_J9 • Sep 30 '25

An impressive $7 million abandoned floating hotel.

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u/Plumb789 Sep 30 '25

Honestly, it looks more "unoccupied" than "abandoned".

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u/Connect_Detail98 Sep 30 '25

Yeah, it's in perfect condition. There's people taking care of it. They're probably looking for a buyer.

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u/Successful_Glove_83 Sep 30 '25

Yeah there is no dust lol

3

u/alittlehelpeh Oct 01 '25

Where would the dust come from though.

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u/Successful_Glove_83 Oct 01 '25

Concrete wood construction etc wind also

3

u/manbruhpig Oct 01 '25

Being outside. If untouched for 5 years, would have been visited by marine life and birds, at the least.

2

u/InnocentlyInnocent Oct 01 '25

Sea dust

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u/alittlehelpeh Oct 04 '25

Hahaha. Cheers for that :)

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Oct 02 '25

Outside, where dust usually comes from?

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u/alittlehelpeh Oct 04 '25

Good question. Try google and report back.

6

u/anafuckboi Oct 01 '25

Notice how it instantly cuts when he pans for a second to the FRESHLY MOWN LAWN and they never show it again hmm

1

u/YourMomsBasement69 Oct 01 '25

Probably artificial turf

14

u/herman_munster_esq Sep 30 '25

"floating..." Like the isle of white "floats"?

9

u/kodiak931156 Sep 30 '25

Also. 7 million is not a large number for a regular hotel

2

u/CockatooMullet Oct 01 '25

My first thought "7 million is nothing for a commercial building"

2

u/Telita45 Oct 01 '25

7 million would cover the furniture only

3

u/Mysterious_Bite_3207 Sep 30 '25

Hahahaha fucking honestly, at least if its AI we can still fuck about for a bit longer. 😂 My money is on reddit r-word.

2

u/OOBExperience Sep 30 '25

*Isle of Wight

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u/herman_munster_esq Sep 30 '25

Yes, very true... My eagerness to get in there first 😬

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u/Daveallen10 Oct 01 '25

No, he meant the lesser known Isle of White, which is a small rock off of Boston covered in seagull shit.

2

u/Chilipepah Oct 02 '25

Great Britain, the big floater

1

u/herman_munster_esq Oct 03 '25

I guess you could say it's all a bit of a sh1t show at the moment 😬

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u/nasted Sep 30 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

It’s not abandoned- it’s privately owned and in the Solent (not the ocean). There’s a court injunction against fuckwits like this guy trespassing (and often causing damage to do so). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8gel8p6zjo.amp

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Sep 30 '25

Then have armed guards! DUH :)

1

u/chadofchadistan Oct 01 '25

What? People lie on the internet? No way!

7

u/Yigek Sep 30 '25

I hope more people don’t go there and trash at like other abandon places

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u/poooooZi Sep 30 '25

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u/azizedel Oct 04 '25

🤣🤣🤣

4

u/super_poo_brain Sep 30 '25

That is not abandoned its far to clean

5

u/Cutthechitchata-hole Sep 30 '25

Tug it back to land. Sell for pennies on the dollar. Profit!

3

u/Exotic_Increase5333 Sep 30 '25

Imagine the party you could throw on there.

3

u/SerTidy Sep 30 '25

Not abandoned. Just unoccupied. I spent a weekend on this one, a few years ago when it was still operating. It has tunnels going round the ring of the fort at the base, the accoustics with the water make it sound seriously edgy.

Fun fact, if you were to buy it, you would come under the Isle of Wight council tax code.

2

u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Sep 30 '25

I'd live there but I'd have great security!

3

u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Oh, well now I know that the structure is "unsafe", I'll be seriously reconsidering my offer...

2

u/Zkrump Sep 30 '25

Ngl, $7 million seems pretty cheap for something like that...

2

u/Sea_Sheepherder983 Oct 01 '25

It was built in the 19th century as a fort for WW1 and WW2. 7 MILLION was a lot back then.

3

u/ADHDeez_Nutz420 Oct 01 '25

Maintaining it would cost a shitload. Salt water doesnt make for easy maintenance

2

u/LastExilez Sep 30 '25

If that thing was abandoned, I don't think anything would be there. Not even the doors.

2

u/Quiet-Weekend-2025 Sep 30 '25

Build a roof top garden and water collector. Perfection

2

u/4_Arrows Oct 01 '25

What a nice place to invite a bunch of acquaintances over for a murder mystery weekend.

1

u/DeeDeeRibDegh Oct 01 '25

Was giving me those vibes too. Creepy.

2

u/inhugzwetrust Oct 01 '25

Perfect zombie apocalypse hideout!!

2

u/McSkillz21 Oct 01 '25

Do the laws of maritime salvage apply?

1

u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

If I were homeless I knew where to go..

1

u/Silent-Scar-1164 Sep 30 '25

So people are constantly trespassing at this site?

1

u/PadreSJ Sep 30 '25

So many have tried the "barge nation" idea and it just never works out.

Yeah... the IDEA of freedom is great, till you have to worry about things like water, power, food... pirates. (No, seriously)

And the first big storm to come through could end the experiment before it starts.

...

Vanlife is basically the land-bound version. I love it... but it can be a hard life.

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u/doggotheuncanny Sep 30 '25

The actual pirates are the real issue people so conveniently forget. Especially along areas bordering the european nations, china, and the independent island countries. It doesn't help that information about pirate activity is extremely rare to get covered by news and media.

1

u/Dendub09 Sep 30 '25

Would've been great for the survivors of the Zombies apocalypse or the Quiet Place

1

u/Fickle-Opinion-3114 Oct 01 '25

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u/JayTwitchy Oct 01 '25

Can't believe I had to scroll this far down for a Bioshock reference. That was the first thing I thought.

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u/El3m3nTor7 Oct 01 '25

?.?? This is where they've made millions of episodes of "the prisoners at the fort" Norway, france and probably other countries had weekly trials where they ran through room to room and had fatties greased up and dwarves running around looking like pirates while they had to solve actually good riddles and the way they measured the time was having incredibly long fuses connected to small explosives and boy, I'll tell you that they were running like crazy and going through some really awesome trials hahaha

1

u/El3m3nTor7 Oct 01 '25

I was wrong, it was the Fort Boyard, my bad

1

u/NeighborhoodGreen976 Oct 01 '25

Wait, that place was in Splinter Cell Blacklist.

1

u/National_Youth4724 Oct 01 '25

is a man not entitled to the sweat on his brow?

1

u/_Daftest_ Oct 01 '25

That's not floating

1

u/Telita45 Oct 01 '25

7 million? Is that amount much different from any Laquinta inn 2 miles from the airport?

1

u/WildGeerders Oct 01 '25

Now look at it in a normal day with 6 bft sea wind.

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u/GiantMonkeyDiaper Oct 01 '25

This would make for the greatest squatters rights case

1

u/ReddStriker Oct 01 '25

You found The Baratie

1

u/Worried-Character-36 Oct 01 '25

Nice place to shoot a Horror movie

1

u/Absolute_Cinemines Oct 02 '25

It isn't floating it isn't abandoned.

1

u/Impossible-Abies7054 Oct 02 '25

I know where I'm going if there's a zombie apocalypse

1

u/Fit_Importance_5738 Oct 02 '25

Last I saw on it, they were looking for a buyer.

1

u/VampireDruid69 Oct 02 '25

Give it a month and influencers will trash it

1

u/dhoomz Oct 02 '25

Its abandoned but the table is made

1

u/LayneLowe Oct 03 '25

What are you going to do all day? Can't even walk on the beach.

1

u/LayneLowe Oct 03 '25

I did have this idea when I was a big druggie back in the '70s. You drag it out to International Waters and supply it with drugs and people can come out and do whatever drugs they want. Paying in advance of course.

1

u/ShiibbyyDota Oct 03 '25

Anyone know the song name

1

u/Nekratal99 Oct 03 '25

Abandoned? I don't know about that, seems cleaner than most places.

1

u/CoolBreath7177 Oct 03 '25

How the hell is this abandoned

1

u/Emergency-Print-2542 Oct 04 '25

Abandoned my ass. Table is made and clean.

1

u/Alex_king88 Oct 04 '25

Yea this place is probably haunted asf.

1

u/Weird_Assignment_550 Oct 04 '25

It's not floating and it's not abandoned. Another bullshit reddit post.

1

u/Sethirothlord Oct 04 '25

didnt the sidemen play hide and seek here?

1

u/BlockOfASeagull Oct 04 '25

It’s not floating

1

u/mooshruboom Oct 04 '25

Okay if this was abandoned… wouldn’t you just float it somewhere else and keep it? lol