One weekend in mid-April I woke up to a message from a date from more than 10 years back. She was jogging near her home, and had spotted that the doors to a hotel, which I had unsuccessfully tried to photograph a year earlier, were now open.
“When are we going”, I asked.
“Whenever you want”, she said.
Needless to say, that I immediately got up, had a quick cup of coffee and rushed to the metro.
This is the accommodation building of the former conference center. Open doors was a bit of lying. The doors were completely ripped off. I took my camera from my bag to take the first shot only to notice, that I had forgotten my memory card in my computer. As I was already this far out, I chose to use my phone to photograph for the first time since late 2020.
Entry was to a small lobby with stairs.
Here we have the first views from inside. The place was in a really bad condition.
The hotel didn’t look too comfortable to me.
A longer corridor. Basically the building was the shape of a Z with the middle line straight.
Inside the first room.
I have to state it again. If this would still be a hotel, I wouldn’t book a stay here.
They had tried to prevent people from opening the balcony door. That doesn’t prevent anybody.
The bed does look tempting. Unfortunately I was with a date from more than 10 years back, not with a current one.
The bathrooms were extremely dull.
Safety lighting documents. I’m not sure, but I think that the building housed foreign construction workers during its last years in use.
The newer sheets of paper are a report on the condition of the building. The older and more yellow one are the original electrical drawings of the building.
More technical papers.
Like I said, the building was the shape of a Z. That’s where we are.
The second room. It was basically the same as the first one, just a mirror image of it.
The low quality of tags in here is just amazing.
The main circuit board.
The view from the balcony was really nice. That’s the sea over there.
Seven years of bad luck.
We end this post in a closet. But the exploration will continue.
Just a random observation… That’s the circuit board for the floor, not the main for the building. You would only know this if you had experience in the industry. Also, this is a really drab place, though I have to admit that I’ve had to stay in worse places, if you can believe it. 😉
I can believe it, because so have I. Last year I went on a business trip to Rural Finland. I stayed at a hotel, which has been a municipal landmark since the 1970’s. Back then it was luxurious, but since then no renovations have been made, and every material is original. The mold smells all the way outside, the bathroom floors and walls were cracked and so on.
The place is run by a man in his 1970’s, who works there alone. When I told him that I’m an urbexer, he encouraged me to document the place during my stay, as when he dies, vandals will destroy it. That’s what he said in his own words.