Abandoned Hotels in Daytona: A Photo essay

[buckethead]

I posted a link to some photos in the Park View thread by a young man who had done some ninja photography of it.

He posted this from a trip to Daytona on another website: surf-station.com

The narrative is his.

So my family was staying in Daytona Beach/Ormond Beach (?) and saw this hotel at night that looked abadoned. My gf and I waited till morning to look at the site to see if it was abadoned or just a construction site. Sure enough it had been abandoned. This one is called Surfside Resort and Suites..

the front of the hotel...

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and the back of the hotel...

ocean front view



you can see all the bird crap..





hotel book..

fridge full of bibles??

A bums bead in the front lobby room..

Front lobby room... remember the mural of the cocatoo in the corner of the pic...





A bums hygiene products...



Had to shoot on a tripod.

something cool.

Before ....



aafter...



the front lobby room and the mural of the cocatoo I told you to remeber..

And after that hotel me and my gf decided just to drive on A1A just because we never been down south so we found this too!

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Some nice pianos.

And this room actually got us to leave. It was a bums room pretty fresh looking 4 stories up. Clothes, back packs, toothbrush, deodarent, shavers, girls hygiene products, and a twilight the book. The chairs pushed into the wall plus that was enough to say goodbye for now. Didn't want to see what was next 9 7 stories up.....me only being one guy and then my gf with no weapon = no safety. Only another year untill I can get my concealed weapons permit.



and then took one more walking out.

[billy]

There's a debranded Executive Inn near I-20 west and Fulton Industrial near Six Flags Over Georgia.
It was a total crack and ho operation for years. It was shut down last June for multiple (hundreds) code violations.

[sheclown]

some of the black and whites are really haunting...

[Johnny]

It's amazing to me that beach front property can just sit like that.

[mtraininjax]

Now we have beachfront property for all the people who want it in Jax, but who instead panhandle for change downtown.

[cayohueso]

The first pictured hotel is in Ormond Beach, about 2 miles from me. I usually see it when I go for a bike rdie on the beach. It has been abandoned since the 2004 hurricane season. There are several properties along Ocean Avenue (A1A) like this. There are quite a few large empty oceanfront lots where hotels had stood for decades.

Recently we have also had several suspicious fires at tourist/ T-Shirt shops along A1A.

[Reaper man]

Is anyone else not getting OP's post rendered completely in Firefox? o_O

[Bill Ectric]

Some of those pictures have a very eeire quality. One can almost imagine the picture fading to a past scenario, like in the movie Titanic, when the old sunken hull of a ship took on its former brilliance.

[JaxNative68]

great photography

[Miss Fixit]

It's stunning that whoever owns these properties - even if a bank - didn't salvage any of the items inside.  I realize that the value of the furniture and inventory is small compared to the property but there is no good excuse for this kind of neglect/waste

[Sportmotor]

WOW thats in decent condition, I am shocked the owneers havnt gutted the hotel for the copper that would be worth the effort for in that size.

[strider]

Hey, wouldn't they make GREAT sober houses!  




Just kidding actually ... but there really are some beach front motels that have been converted and are a bit....pricey.

[Timkin]

I think its pretty sad that almost 100% of the time , abandoned structures get ransacked and destroyed by people who obviously do not care.  Im also pretty surprised , as posted above that it appears most of the furnishings were left behind. I guess there will be alot more of this , as the economy continues to dip. Too bad.  Oceanside Hotels.. just sitting there unused and getting destroyed.