Hotels.com Offers Creepy Getaways For Halloween Loving Clients
The Hotel Del Coronado is cited as one of many Halloween getaways by Hotels.com. Photo: Bernard Gagnon
If Hurricane Matthew wasn’t scary enough, Hotels.com offers a list of U.S. hotels for your customers who can’t get enough of Halloween.
The Hotel Parq Central in Albuquerque, NM is a former rail-yard hospital turned psychiatric ward for children that was recently converted into a luxury hotel. According to Hotels.com, “employees and guests have reported paranormal activity, strange whispers and the feeling of being watched.”
The Marshall House in Savannah, GA was once used by the Union Army during the Civil War and twice for yellow fever epidemics. “Guests have reported seeing ghosts throughout the hotel, hearing children running down the halls at night and faucets turning on by themselves,” Hotels.com reports.
Stephen King based his novel The Shining on the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO. King and his wife checked spent one night in the hotel in 1973. Former owners F.O and Flora Stanley reportedly haunt the grand hotel, “with reports that you can hear Flora playing the piano from the hotel's music room,” Hotels.com says.
The popular Hotel Del Coronado, setting of the comedy Some Like It Hot, is reportedly the eternal home of Kate Morgan. “Her third-floor guestroom is one of the most requested rooms for visitors hoping for a sighting or ghostly encounter,” the website reports.
Stay on Main in Los Angeles, formerly the Cecil Hotel, inspired the current cable TV horror series American Horror Story. The hotel has also been the site of a number of strange deaths, says Hotels.com.