Explore world's deepest underground hotel

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00:00Don't tell me we're going in there. I'm afraid we are. This is the way in.

00:12Looks terrifying. So are we nearly there?

00:17Getting there. We'll drop two more floors I'm afraid.

00:22Down there? Yeah, I'd say.

00:27It's quite slippy.

00:41Are you sure this is the way? I think so.

00:49So how do you bring all the fresh bedding down to deep sleep?

00:53Just some big backpacks. Surely not this way? Yeah, I'm afraid so.

01:03Well, this is it. Wow.

01:06Just got to find the right key here.

01:10That looks like a big door. Yeah, it keeps all the monsters in.

01:17Right. Here we are. Come on in.

01:22Wow.

01:28This is incredible. Do you like it?

01:34It is amazing.

01:38You can take your helmet off now if you want to give your head a rest.

01:41Perfect, thank you. So when you're in here you don't have to wear your helmet?

01:45No, not if you don't want to. Come up these steps and have a sit down.

01:57Thank you very much.

01:59Right now we are sat in the bottom of a slate mine.

02:03We are 1,375 vertical feet underground.

02:08There's a lot of cave camps in the UK and certainly abroad where caves and mines are so big.

02:15If you want to go and explore the far reaches of them you have to camp down there.

02:20Everything has been manually carried down. There's no trolley entrance anywhere.

02:27It's been a lot of work. It's taken about four years, a bit longer actually.

02:31But this is an adventure experience. It's a guided overnight adventure.

02:37So it's always under the guidance and control of a team of instructors.

02:43We meet at our base on the surface and it takes about half an hour to walk up to the mine from there.

02:50And about half an hour through the mine to get down to this point.

02:55There's always two instructors at any one time in the chamber with them throughout the evening.

03:02There's four log cabins here. Each log cabin has two single beds in.

03:07So that's obviously eight guests.

03:10We also have a grotto which is a bit posher.

03:16That's got a double bed in it so that gives us a capacity for ten guests.

03:21This is structurally a really good chamber. It's about the best structural chamber we've managed to find.

03:28There's over a thousand chambers in this hillside.

03:32A lot of them are quite old and they were put in by people who were being pushed very, very hard

03:38for maximum productivity at the expense of everything including safety.

03:43They're too wide and the pillars are too narrow.

03:46They've not been engineered in a way that gives them a long-term stability.

03:52But by the time you get to the 1930s when this chamber was cut it was very different.

03:57The level of engineering that's gone into these chambers is miles ahead of the really old ones.

04:04It would have been a lot easier to do it just inside the mine, not all the way down here.

04:12But we wanted it to be in the deepest point.

04:17That's its USP. If it was just inside the mine it wouldn't have been quite as an impressive a feat I don't think.

04:26Having said that, it's certainly been a lot more work than I expected.

04:31Not that I really knew what to expect. We've just been getting on with it and it's been ready when it's ready.

04:37If I had my time again now I probably wouldn't have been so ambitious with the location.

04:42But here we are. We've done it.

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