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We visited this place quite a few weeks ago now in the company of Sonyes but we wanted to let him get his report and photos up on line first. Anyhow sufficient time has elapsed now so here's our take on the same place, hopefully you'll be able to find something of interest.
There's not a great deal of history about on t'internet for this place! It was originally a three or possibly four star hotel, and it appears from a thank you card we found on the premises that it was still functioning as recently as 2006. During our exploration we found a commode chair in one of the bedrooms and that rather suggests to me that perhaps the hotel was geared up for pensioners and very elderly and infirm guests, but it's not conclusive.
As can also be seen from this lovely postcard below it has been around for quite some time so what caused it's demise and subsequent slide into dereliction we have no definitive answer, only a theory.
My best guess then would be that's it's all down to the huge change in the holiday habits of the British public beginning in the early 1970s with the advent of the cheap package holiday on the Costa del Sol et all - lets face it, when you have the choice of a room in a hotel on a wet and windy Welsh beach for a week, or basking in sun, blue sea and sangria for half the money, then where are you going to go? For a time the diehards, especially pensioners who are often very set in their ways and have been frequenting the hotel for years, will have continued to go back, but eventually it will have become prohibitively expensive to run and profit returns will have begun to collapse exponentially, prices will have been hiked, and finally a point will have been reached where it could no longer continue without a huge change in direction.
And clearly that was not forthcoming.
What is sad to see is that the chavs and pykeys have moved in to the place in double quick time and trashed and thieved there way around the building so comprehensively that there won't be much left worth bothering with very soon. The floors are precarious in the extreme and at times it's possible to see a drop before you of three to four floors - quite unnerving as you can perhaps imagine.
All in all then a very disappointing explore. But hey! You can't win 'em all!
Th-th-th-that's all folks. Hope you found something you liked!
Thanks for looking
Th'history...
There's not a great deal of history about on t'internet for this place! It was originally a three or possibly four star hotel, and it appears from a thank you card we found on the premises that it was still functioning as recently as 2006. During our exploration we found a commode chair in one of the bedrooms and that rather suggests to me that perhaps the hotel was geared up for pensioners and very elderly and infirm guests, but it's not conclusive.
As can also be seen from this lovely postcard below it has been around for quite some time so what caused it's demise and subsequent slide into dereliction we have no definitive answer, only a theory.
My best guess then would be that's it's all down to the huge change in the holiday habits of the British public beginning in the early 1970s with the advent of the cheap package holiday on the Costa del Sol et all - lets face it, when you have the choice of a room in a hotel on a wet and windy Welsh beach for a week, or basking in sun, blue sea and sangria for half the money, then where are you going to go? For a time the diehards, especially pensioners who are often very set in their ways and have been frequenting the hotel for years, will have continued to go back, but eventually it will have become prohibitively expensive to run and profit returns will have begun to collapse exponentially, prices will have been hiked, and finally a point will have been reached where it could no longer continue without a huge change in direction.
And clearly that was not forthcoming.
What is sad to see is that the chavs and pykeys have moved in to the place in double quick time and trashed and thieved there way around the building so comprehensively that there won't be much left worth bothering with very soon. The floors are precarious in the extreme and at times it's possible to see a drop before you of three to four floors - quite unnerving as you can perhaps imagine.
All in all then a very disappointing explore. But hey! You can't win 'em all!
...and th'pictures...
The hotel's sign is fast dissapearing into the overgrown hedges.
Vandalism shows by the amount of stuff that has been chucked out of windows into the back yard.
The basement discoteque.
Kids will be kids... unfortunately.
The ground floor bedroom corridor.
The bar.
Optic stands in the bar.
TJ's gratuitous self portrait!
The dining room floorboards have been stolen.
A card telling a sadly poignant story.
These magnificent bay windows are in the lounge behind reception.
On the first floor now.
What's she up to?
A bit of art
Out on the balcony over the reception area lounge.
Built of good, solid Welsh stone.
The lift cage...
Arty f*rty lace 'n landscape...
Red curtains.
What do you reckon? Do you think I should?
Glad I didn't shoulder charge it
Enough manky floors and four story drops for one day Time to goooooooo
The hotel's sign is fast dissapearing into the overgrown hedges.
Vandalism shows by the amount of stuff that has been chucked out of windows into the back yard.
The basement discoteque.
Kids will be kids... unfortunately.
The ground floor bedroom corridor.
The bar.
Optic stands in the bar.
TJ's gratuitous self portrait!
The dining room floorboards have been stolen.
A card telling a sadly poignant story.
These magnificent bay windows are in the lounge behind reception.
On the first floor now.
What's she up to?
A bit of art
Out on the balcony over the reception area lounge.
Built of good, solid Welsh stone.
The lift cage...
Arty f*rty lace 'n landscape...
Red curtains.
What do you reckon? Do you think I should?
Glad I didn't shoulder charge it
Enough manky floors and four story drops for one day Time to goooooooo
Th-th-th-that's all folks. Hope you found something you liked!
Thanks for looking