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Hotel Allegro Hosts Halloween Party and One Republic Drops In
November 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM | 0 Comments
For those of you who may have thought celebrating Halloween at a hotel was lame, think again. The Hotel Allegro hosted a Halloween and pumpkin carving contest during their regular wine-hour. And the rock band One Republic (you know 'em as "It's too late to apologiiiiize") popped in and mingled with the staff and guests.
While there are no pics of One Republic yet, we did get a few snapshots of the hotel staffers all dressed up. Those are actually the costume contest winners above. And because we know you love dogs in costumes as much as we do, there's a special one thrown in after the jump.
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Last-Minute Halloween Party at Haunted Curtis Hotel
October 31, 2008 at 4:56 PM | 0 Comments
So we told you to stay at The Curtis Hotel on Halloween and we hope you took our advice--or are at least in the area--because they're sponsoring a Haunted Hotel Halloween Bash:
Labeled the largest and most elaborate Halloween Party of the year, the Curtis Hotel will be transformed into a spooky, mysterious and haunted adult playground. The party will consist of over 15,000 square feet spread out over four ballrooms.
Colorado Avalanche stars Paul Stastny, Tyler Aranson, and Wojtek Wolski are hosting it, so maybe the hockey kings will be there.
Four ballrooms worth of terror will cost you: tickets start at $25. Doors open at 9 pm. Checkout the spooky HauntedHotelDenver.com for more information.
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Ghosts and Bedbugs at Hawaii's Kona Beach Hotel
October 28, 2008 at 10:12 AM | 0 Comments
The Shadowlands, one of the internet's creepiest compendiums for real-life haunting stories, has a thumbnail listing in its Haunted Places list of King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, located on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Footsteps. Apparitions. Hauntings. Ancient Polynesian warriors. The pissed off bones of the Hawaiian King himself, buried at an undisclosed location someplace beneath the hotel, that only his ancestors know about. A portrait of Queen Lilliuokalani, that glares at you and breathes.
It turns out this place is indeed haunted by more than just Hawaiian royalty, but by dozens of angry, restless spirits. You can even see them during daylight hours -- their hair-raising reviews on Tripadvisor will surely have you heading for the rolling green hills of The Big Island -- or flinging yourself into the nearest live volcano.
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Halloween Hotel Thrills Continue Through November
October 27, 2008 at 2:54 PM | 0 Comments
Over 50 years ago, the murder of the Black Dahlia froze Los Angeles, embroiling the whole city in a mystery so deep it was never solved and so controversial that it is still being retold through books, movies, music, and late-night ghost stories. And of course, like all good stories, it began at a hotel. Cue creepy music.
The Millenium Biltmore was the last place the victim, The Black Dahlia, was seen before she was seen dead, in lots of pieces and so it makes sense that her story be told starting in the same place.
If Halloween doesn't scare your socks off on Friday night, then sign up for the Black Dahlia Bus Tour on Saturday, Nov. 1 to really round out your terrifying weekend. The tour is part of Esotouric's Noir November Sampler:
Creepy, right? The deadly drive will cost you $58 per person. Register at the Esotouric site.The tour takes us from the human hustle of Main Street to the serene lobby of the Biltmore (the second-to-last place she was seen alive), to the newspaper offices and the Greyhound station where she checked her bags, and concludes at the site where her bisected body was found in Leimert Park and with a little known suspect who lived nearby.
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Cookie Monsters Will Descend Upon a Doubletree Near You This Halloween
Where: United StatesOctober 27, 2008 at 9:07 AM | 0 Comments
In the mood for something hot, oozey and gooey instead of potentially-tampered-with pieces of candy from strangers this Halloween? Your friends at Anyone who rolls into any Doubletree hotel (there are 190 to choose from; figure out which one is closest to you here) between 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. this Friday is supposed to receive one of those legendary warm chocolate chip cookies. We're not sure how they're going to limit everyone to one cookie per person, so we're planning on dressing up as the Cookie Monster and camping out in a Doubletree lobby for a solid few hours to see if we might be able to go ahead and squeeze at least 2000 calories out of this deal.
Also, fun facts: Doubletree gives out around 35,000 chocolate chip cookies every day to guests checking in; that's nearly 13,000,000 each year. Another fun fact: we're betting the cookie-hungry mobs will be annoying for guests of the hotel trying to come and go from their hotels in peace. But also, like, they'll be getting free cookies too. We'll remind you again on Friday morning -- but if we've got you craving cookies right now, you can actually order them delivered straight to your house here.
Haunted Hotels
Vampire Expert Alleges Haunted Happenings at the Bowery Hotel
October 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM | 1 Comment
We're well aware that the Bowery Hotel has questionable neighbors, but we're wondering if anyone has had any experience with the hotel's more ghastly guests?
We were geeky enough to take a walking ghost tour of the Lower East Side last week, when our guide (who specializes in vampires!) had us stop to check out a hidden marble cemetery just behind the Bowery Hotel on Second Avenue (not to be confused with the more conspicuous marble cemetery around the corner on Second Street).
Our guide then proceeded to tell us about how just about every night at 1 a.m., the hotel's elevators go haywire--an occurrence that allegedly happens often enough it no longer fazes the staff.
We thought about hanging around the Bowery Hotel to check out this purported paranormal activity, but we were scared off when told about the wait for a table at Gemma.
Got a Ghostbuster-like Bowery Hotel story? Let us know.
[Photo: Casey Kelbaugh for the NY Times]
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Halloween at Las Vegas Hotels Will Be All Sexy, All the Time
October 22, 2008 at 2:37 PM | 0 Comments
Ever wonder who buys all those super revealing "naughty maid" and "sexy DEA agent" packaged costumes from halloween stores? Las Vegas, whose party scene seems to consume them en masse, has the answer with each hotel holding their own scintillating shebang to celebrate the witching hour.
When it comes to trick-or-treating this halloween, Studio 54 at the MGM Grand ups the "trick" quotient with their "Nightmare on 54th Street" party, every night from October 28-31. Think you can handle it?
The nightly sexy soiree includes seductive torture maidens, strikingly hot death warriors and wickedly naughty nurses. The Studio 54 Sexy Spider Girls will entertain as they spin, swoop and swing on aerial webs and ghost bungees, while Snake Babe, a bewitching temptress, will walk amongst the crowd with her slithering serpent.
Before you go, we recommend making sure your insurance covers any possible injuries resulting from "sexy web entanglement" as the MGM Grand is only the beginning.
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Halloween Hotels :: Scandal at The Raleigh
October 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM | 0 Comments
Watergate, Monicagate, The Keating Five, Iran-Contra, Kennedy, Palin, oh, that list does go on, doesn't it?
The Raleigh Hotel is hosting a hilarious, inappropriately appropriate "Scandal!!" soiree on Halloween night, only days before the national election. And their invite is salaciously creative and fun.
Come to the hotel penthouse dressed as the characters who have plunged our nation to its lowest depths: John McCain, Poppy Bush, Todd Palin, Tricky Dick Cheney, Red Scare-monger Joe McCarthy, or even Nixon's Chief Plumber G. Gordon Liddy (ooh, that crazy moustache!), and you could win a prize -- we know not what -- for Most Creative, Most Scandalous, and Best Couple.
Lest you think it's all men who populate the political scandals of today and yesterday, you can come as Lady Di, Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter -- or maybe Rose Mary Woods, responsible for deleting those crucial 18 minutes from the Watergate tapes.
But we'd personally like to see a couple come dressed as Barney and Spot, those two crazy Scottish terriers who allegedly saved W from fatally choking on that scandalous pretzel. Rates start at $265.
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Halloween Hotels :: The W New Orleans is Hosting Scary Movie Night
October 20, 2008 at 12:55 PM | 3 Comments
We are really loving these Halloween Hotel Happenings that have nothing to do with dressing up in a slutty Halloween costume.
The W New Orleans - French Quarter is hosting a Halloween Night Scary Movie Marathon in the hotel's courtyard.
In partnership with the New Orleans Film Society, the marathon kicks off at 6pm on Halloween. The movies are some of the newer scary movie releases from FOX/MGM Home Entertainment (another sponsor) such as Joy Ride 2, The Happening and The Amityville Horror.
The hotel is offering valet parking for $6 and the entrance fee is $5 which includes the movie showing, unlimited popcorn and three boxes of candy per person. (That fee drops to $3 if you are a MY W Hometown card member.)
This sounds like a pretty low-key way to celebrate Halloween in New Orleans, although we do wish that the movies were some of the classics instead. Or the W Hotel could show True Blood episodes which take place in Louisiana and deal with vampires. Those are equally scary and sexy.
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Halloween Hotels :: Al Capone's Bed, Breakfast and Prison Package in Philly
October 16, 2008 at 9:46 AM | 0 Comments
Al wuz here.
Let's face it: You're too old for Halloween. Which is sad, because Halloween is a fun--um, event? (It's not technically a holiday, right?)
So if you're not a fan of Elvira, there's another way for you to party in Philly that doesn't necessarily involve a thrown-together costume and weird looks from your neighbors.
The Hampton Inn Philadelphia in Center City is offering the Al Capone Bed, Breakfast & Prison package, which includes two daytime tickets to Eastern State Penitentiary (fun, no?), an Al Capone "mug shot" mug, magnet and Eastern State playing cards featuring Capone as the joker, as well as breakfast for two and a reproduction of the Eastern State Penitentiary Handbook for Inmates.
Rates start at $189 per night. Best of all, with this package, Halloween goes to the end of year--it's good through December.
Trick or treat!
[Photo: WikiCommons]
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Halloween Hotels :: Hotel 626 is Like Hotel Hell, Except Totally Awesome
October 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM | 0 Comments
So, uh, this is kind of awkward, but: we checked in at Hotel 626 last night and almost peed ourselves out of fear. It was a virtual hotel hell and it was...genius.
Never would we would willingly put ourselves through a real-life hotel hell (we've been put through plenty of those without our consent, thank you), but Doritos' newest advertising gimmick somehow managed to capture our worst hotel nightmares and brought them to life on our computer screens -- and it's kinda totally awesome.
Essentially, Hotel 626 is an online video game experienced from "your" point of view that begins with you waking up in your hotel room in the middle of the night hearing strange noises. You get out of bed, enter the hallway and from there, you're required to go through a series of scary-ass experiences (as challenges) in order to get yourself out of the hotel.
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Halloween Hotels :: Spooky KaBOOki at SushiSamba in The Palazzo
October 15, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments
The dark side of Las Vegas can be very dark indeed. Hello, have you seen CSI? Or the pirates and wenches at Treasure Island? Freaky indeed.
And over at the Palazzo Hotel inside SushiSamba, things will a little spookier.
The restaurant is hosting Spooky KaBOOki (their capitalization, not ours) which is a play on the traditional Japanese theater form of Kabuki. Kabuki uses "bizarre stylizations and outlandish characters" as well as plenty of visual tricks and stage techniques to wow the audience. And what better night to do this than Halloween.
