Take a Step Out of the Ordinary – Spend Your Next Vacation Visiting a Spooky Haunted Hotel!
Haunted Hotel Part 2
Vacations can often turn into “same old, same old” – the usual hotel rooms with the usual décor and services.
Yet your vacation is meant to be time AWAY from routine!
Have you ever found yourself cringing at the thought of spending a week or two stuck in a boring hotel, playing tennis and charades?
Do you long for something more exciting for your next trip away?
If you're looking for an awesome adventure, why not try one of the many hotels around the world that claim to be haunted?
There's just something about the paranormal that attracts our attention.
For some, it's the chance to make contact with something we don't understand and can't explain. For others, it may be the opportunity to disprove those theories that say such things exist.
Whatever your fascination with the situation, you'll find there are definitely some spooky hotels around with rooms to rent.
There are literally hundreds of places you can stay where you're likely to come into contact with a ghost - some of them right in your own hotel room!
Typically, a situation is more conducive to haunted sightings if the building itself has a history that includes a gruesome or scandalous death.
The Crescent hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is one of those.
The building was reportedly once a hospital with something of a shady history. Among the ghosts that have been reported by guests is a doctor who seems somewhat confused that his patients aren't where they should be. But perhaps the most famous and popular ghost at the hotel is Miss Theadora. She was a nurse at the hospital, and is honoured with her own room, the Theadora room. Guests who have stayed in this room have reported many different paranormal happenings, including hearing a womans voice and other strange noises, and being touched in the middle of the night.
Well aware of it’s reputation, The Crescent runs ghost tours daily through the hotel.
If you're headed to the western part of the United States, you might want to spend at night at the Bullock Hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota, another of the nation's haunted hotels.
The town has been made famous by the hit HBO TV series “Deadwood”, and now attracts visitors from all over the country, and the world.
The hotel was reportedly built by Deadwood's first sheriff, Seth Bullock, who refuses to give up his rights to oversee the operation of his business.
New Orleans, Louisiana, with it's colorful history, is a prime place for hotels with a little otherworld excitement. You'll find that ghosts are said to haunt many of the small courtyards around the city.
Popular New Orleans ghost-spotting hotels include The Provincial, The Omni Royal Orleans Hotel and The Andrew Jackson Hotel.
Looking for something with some real terror?
It's said that horror writer Stephen King wrote "The Shining" after he was inspired by stories of a particular room in the Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado.
That particular room isn't the only place of activity, and guests have reported hearing the sounds of children - possibly the children of the servants who once inhabited the fourth floor of this building. The Stanleys have also been "seen" around the building, including some who swear that Mr. Stanley continues to spend time at the piano.
Looking for something more exotic?
The Hilton Hawaiian Village has it’s very own resident ghost.
After soaking up the sun on Hawaii’s famous beaches, you can retire to the hotel for some serious spooky fun!
The hotel is said to be haunted by a beautiful woman in a red dress, and has wandered the halls for decades. It is unclear who the woman is – some say she was a guest who was murdered in the tower room. Some locals believe she is the Hawaiian Volcano Goddess, Madame Pele.
London, England may not seem too exotic, but it certainly has some spooky hotels!
The Hotel in London is famous for sightings of the “Blue Lady” who haunts the hotel. She is thought to be a maid who was named Eliza Kleininger, who died in a fire in the hotel in 1886.
She appears in a glowing blue light, and is sighted almost daily close to the spot where she supposedly died.
Hazlewood Castle in Yorkshire is famous for sightings of black-clad figures that roam the halls and the courtyard.
The Castle is a former monastary, and the ghosts are reported to be the monks who previously dwelled there.
Whether you choose one of the hotels that has never reported ghostly activity but will put you next to a haunted spot, or select one of the many hotels from which guests have reported close encounters of the spooky kind, this could be the answer to your quest for an awesome get away.