Astonishing ABANDONED Florida Resort Near Disney

If anyone has footage of this property while it was open please send it my way either by positing it on Youtube or on my Twitter @brightsunfilms!

It's so crazy how urban explorers will get caught by security for tip-toeing too loudly, but there'll be years of vandalism of people literally throwing carts through windows.

It has to be so eerie seeing a place you remember during your lifetime like this. There's also the opposite phenomenon. I recently found my childhood home on Zillow. When I lived there my mom was a heroin addict and a hoarder and the house was basically being upkept by a 10 year old. My mom lost the house and became homeless when I was around 14 and I haven't had contact with her in nearly a decade, but the house was left in absolute shambles. So when I saw it on Zillow totally refurbished, all the windows pouring in natural light and the hardwood floors glistening, it felt so strange. It's a hard feeling to describe. You almost want to prove to someone, anyone, that you were there and this place was part of your life once.

Man, the last three decades of the 20th century were something else. Nothing will ever be the same again. Such an incredible gone by era.

Stayed here for a few days in January '77. First trip to Florida, and first on a plane. I was 13, which meant I was old enough to wander and explore the property quite a bit. I remember many details, the smells, mall/dining area, etc...and yes, the plastic key cards. Up to that point, I had never stayed anywhere that would have rivaled it. Daughter interned at Disney a few years ago, and I drove up to the gate a few times, wishing I could get in there and see what was happening. Your video, while incredibly sad, is extremely well done. If I ever win a billion dollar powerball, just maybe..lol

My family and I stayed here several times back in its heyday, sometimes for conventions (in fact, my brother is the one who brought this video to my attention) and watching this definitely brought back a lot of memories. It was definitely a interesting place to stay. One thing I remember is that this was the first hotel/resort we ever stayed at that used electric key-card locks, as opposed to hard keys. To my 14-year-old self, that was quite amazing to experience.

As someone that lived in Florida for almost 20 years, and passing this hotel thousands of times and always wondering why a prime location hotel just sat abandoned, now I know the history. Still blows my mind that it never reopened because it’s literally only minutes from Disney. Thank you for this video!

It's sad something this big has just been left to decay. I know a lot of these old buildings are too expensive to fix, but also too expensive to tear down. But it's still such a huge waste. Like all the food containers and stuff. That could have been taken out when they decided they weren't going to open the place. Resell, give away...anything would have been better than just letting it turn to trash.

I never understood vandals, pure theft and destruction for nothing. The work you guys do as urban explorers adds a permanent record of the past that will become a valuable inheritance for future generations. Most urban explorers, if they even move an object, they place it back in it's original position. Godspeed to you and your work sir.

I stayed here sometime in the late 70s as a kid when it was the Hyatt. I remember it being ultra modern and like nothing I had seen before. The one thing I remember the most was that it was the first hotel I had stayed at that used key cards instead of physical keys. It was so futuristic and a big wow factor. The funny part is that the key card did not use a magnetic stripe (or obviously anything modern like RFID). Instead it was like a punch card with holes in it. Most likely the hole patterns were unique for each room and would probably change as the room changed guests.

Jake! You have 2 types of videos normally. Your abandoned documentaries and ones where you walk around and explore. You combined the 2 and it’s ABSOLUTE CINEMATIC GENIUS. Even the music used gave my chills. I would love to see more videos like this moving forward. (Also the more Disney videos, the BETTER) 😂❤️💯

I stayed at this hotel shortly before it closed. It was pretty run down at the time and the outside was dirty. I’m amazed no one has done anything with it because it’s in a great location.

The software company I worked for held a conference here in 1993. The Hyatt Orlando was a snazzy place and was where I first set foot in Florida and saw my first glimpse of Disneyworld (no time to go, however). I stayed in one of the westernmost 'pods' and remember sitting back and watching the sunset between the buildings while poolside. Brought the kids by in 2015 and was shocked to see it abandoned!

My dad worked here as a hotel engineer for 10 years. The hotel closing was one of the craziest things to ever happen in my life. Thank you so much for making this video. So many memories of going to take your child to work day with my dad =D employee holiday parties in the ballroom. I loved the Hyatt!

It always blows my mind how none of the stuff in these places ever gets sold off. They just close the doors and leave everything inside. You would think they would try and get every dime they could scrape out of them.

Seeing these 80s/90s places turn to ruin is very surreal. I was a child in the 80s and 90s and remember the optimism. I remember going on holidays to Spain and staying in resorts with big water parks, and visiting big shopping malls with my family and family friends as special exciting days out. My parents grew up with much less and so I think it was just as exciting for them as for us. My father and several aunts and uncles have died now and it's all really strange seeing the world change a lot in ways they probably didn't foresee. In the 90s we thought we'd figured it all out, we had no concept that life would get worse. It was like we reached a mountain top then collectively started to fall back down the mountain again after 1999.

You do such a great job mixing exploration with history that you are the only urban explorer channel I watch. Plus you're super respectful.

Im surprised someone hasn't bought this property after all these years. Its in a prime location being so close to Disney. Also equally as disturbing is the homeless in Osceola County including Disney employees that sleep in their cars or stay in motels along 192 that Disney didnt just buy it and make affordable housing for their own employees and community at large. I hate to see stuff like this with so much need in the area. SMH

I always get nervous when Jake walks in rooms where there is water damage. Waiting for a ceiling tile to fall

Drive by this place every single day, out of curiosity found your video. Thanks!