World’s deepest hotel in slate mine 1,375ft underground

The world's deepest hotel, only accessible by hike, zip lines and flooded chambers, is 1,375ft underground.

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

00:09Looks terrifying. So are we nearly there?

00:17Getting there. We've got to 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 come and have a sit down.

01:54There we are. Thank 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

02:13where caves and mines are so big if you want to go and explore the far reaches of them.

02:18You have to camp down there.

02:21Everything 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.

02:38It's always under the guidance and control of a team of instructors.

02:43We meet at our base on the surface.

02:46It 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.