Thread: Haunted Hotel

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Thanks so much for the compliments. I'll add more pictures as we make more progress.

Yes, that's me carving the foam.

Wow, what a great theme. The props look great! Keep posting pictures. This is an inspiring theme!

I am very impressed by your progress. The desk and the signs look awesome. I really like the floor indicator above the service elevator sign. Keep up the great work and keep posting pictures!

Eric

Looking for names for my Hotel. Want to start working on invites now, will send out the "Your reservation is confirmed" invites. This a big party, not a haunt.

Any ideas?

I has thinking of the Detnuah Hotel, but it doesn't flow well. Since we use a full sized coffin as a drink cooler, I want to make it "xxxx Htoel and Funeral Parlor" with Funeral Parlor in smaller font. So some kind of morbid name for the hotel?


Morbidworth Hotel? Neverest Hotel, I dunno, ideas?

Thanks


JH

Hotel Unrest
Nocturne Hotel
...I'll keep thinking...don't seem to be inspired at the moment.

johnshenry- how about 'La Muerta Hotel' or 'El Muerto Hotel'...I don't know Spanish so I'm not sure of the grammer, but I think Muerto means dead (?) I've also probably spelled it wrong....sorry

Lady of C. Manor - What a great inspiration you are! It looks like a tremendous amount of work you are putting into your party! I feel a little bit lazy compared to you...

Originally Posted by SkellyCat

johnshenry- how about 'La Muerta Hotel' or 'El Muerto Hotel'...I don't know Spanish so I'm not sure of the grammer, but I think Muerto means dead (?) I've also probably spelled it wrong....sorry

Lady of C. Manor - What a great inspiration you are! It looks like a tremendous amount of work you are putting into your party! I feel a little bit lazy compared to you...

I feel VERY lazy compared to her

BTW, there are lots of hotel valet bells on eBay. Just don't bid against me!

Also thinking of mocking up one of those valet/luggage rack/carts


J

I am following this thread for sure. I am doing almost the same thing, just minus the walkthrough haunt.

I am looking for more ideas for involving the theming outside. I already have committed myself to a graveyard theme in the front due to my current prop collection, but so far here's my list of ideas:
Yard:
[heres my blank canvas]
Graveyard, toumbstones, a few groundbreaker ghouls.
a hanging latex half-skeleton [no hips or legs] although It depends if I find a good use for him inside
an oversize demon/death skeleton w/ scanning head [oscilating fan motor]
a hotel sign including flashing vancancy [hotel name TBD]
a few peices of luggage thrown on the lawn with old/rotten clothes coming out and strewn about... I'm working on this idea and thinking of ways to spook it up... maybe a fog chiller and pipe fog out of a cracked open peice of luggage?
and usual lights, strobes, fog, sound...

and inside:
an FCG in each front window [to be built]
a swinging chandelier
old wall sconces lining the hallway
multiple signs. and numbers on the doors.
faux door?
3d tv... this is still up in the air... dunno where it would go that it would make sense in my house. [I want to have my regular tv available]


I'm looking for ideas for the inside without going TOO crazy. I have a kitchen/dining area, a living room, a bar off the living room, and then a hallway with a bathroom at the end. Oh and a fireplace in the living room.


anyway, I wanted to get all this out and somewhere just to look at it anyway... thanks for the ideas from this thread so far, and hopefully we can collaborate some more.

I am planning similar, and thing the sign will be key. Google (images) for old hotel signs, you will get lots of ideas. I was looking a neon "Vacancy" signs on eBay but they are expensive. I think I am going to do some kind of lighted box sign below a shaped foam sign, and it will flicker a bit. I am also going to mock up a luggage/valet cart and put it on the porch. Sign will be pretty big, and carved out of foam using hot wire, soldering iron and heat gun. That kind of stuff is fun.

Ours is just a big party, We live in a very rural area/town on a shared private drive so we don't get any TOT's.

Still haven't thought of a name yet.