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As requested, I'm starting a new thread for the Haunted Hotel theme so we can all share our ideas.
To start, here is a description (rough draft) of how we plan to layout and decorate our Hanuted Hotel this year. I'll try to figure out how to get my drawings on here soon. I'm SO not technical.
Guests will enter through the hotel lobby – check in desk will be straight ahead where my son will be dressed in the Bones the Bell Boy costume to greet guests. There will be a recording played similar to the Intro on Haunted Hotel - 13th Floor by the Huntington Jaycees. There will be a shaking chandelier hanging from the ceiling, a clock on the wall with 13 hours, etc. and we've also picked up some really cool décor from local Goodwill Stores such as old lamps, mail holder, candle holders, etc. Behind the check in desk there will be a door marked with something like “Employees Only” or “Do Not Enter” (This is for us to pop through to the back side of the haunt). The Lobby will also contain a chair, table, magazines, etc. all decorated in a creepy way.
Guests will start down the first hall/corridor, and there will be a closed door on the right for decoration only. Next there will be an open doorway to a hotel room on the left. We haven’t decided on the scene for this room yet.
After they pass this room, the hall will make a 90 degree turn to the right where there will be another open hotel room down the hall on the right. In this room there will be a bed, night stand, etc. in the background with wallpapered walls, scary pictures hanging, etc. and the rocking granny sitting between the door and the bed, so that’s what they mainly see. (I’m going to put an old nightgown on the granny instead of her hospital gown)
As they proceed down the hall, there will be the façade of an old elevator (like the one in Tower of Terror) straight ahead with a static or animated prop (dressed in another Bones the Bellboy costume) waiting for the elevator. Would love to make the elevator doors shake or something, but that will depend on time.
Just before they reach the elevator, they will make another 90 degree turn to the right to start down the next hall. I’m thinking of having an actor run across the hall screaming into an open door to another hotel room on their left & disappear. Straight ahead of them at the end of the hall will be another faux door with a room service tray sitting on the floor outside. I’m thinking of putting old rotten food on it with maybe rats or roaches on/around the tray.
There will be a small jog to the right and they will continue down the hall to one more open room on the left. In this room I’d like to have a spooky little girl standing at the foot of a bed looking down (picture The Ring) and holding a spooky broken doll. On the side of the room there will be a TV with just static playing really loud, and in the back of the room there will be louvered bi-fold closet doors with some louvers missing and a bright like (maybe green) shining out from inside the closet.
They will make another 90 degree turn to the right to go down the last hallway. As they proceed down that hallway it will take on the look of a boiler room with the big pipes and flames, etc. and the end of that hallway will be the exit.
Forgot to mention that throughout the haunt (hotel) there will be faux doors added in each hallway to make it look like there are more rooms than there really is. All the halls will be lined with the look of wainscotting & wallpaper. Haunted portraits will be hanging on the walls.
So far for outside we are planning on making a Chamberwell Hotel sign with a vacancy sign hanging from it with the word "vacancy" flashing in red lighting.
I would love some more ideas for what we can do outside. We like to put up our outside decor by the beginning of October to get people talking. We've always had a huge cemetery with the columns, etc, but I'm not sure if that will fit with this theme... I can't wait to hear everyone's ideas!
To start, here is a description (rough draft) of how we plan to layout and decorate our Hanuted Hotel this year. I'll try to figure out how to get my drawings on here soon. I'm SO not technical.
Guests will enter through the hotel lobby – check in desk will be straight ahead where my son will be dressed in the Bones the Bell Boy costume to greet guests. There will be a recording played similar to the Intro on Haunted Hotel - 13th Floor by the Huntington Jaycees. There will be a shaking chandelier hanging from the ceiling, a clock on the wall with 13 hours, etc. and we've also picked up some really cool décor from local Goodwill Stores such as old lamps, mail holder, candle holders, etc. Behind the check in desk there will be a door marked with something like “Employees Only” or “Do Not Enter” (This is for us to pop through to the back side of the haunt). The Lobby will also contain a chair, table, magazines, etc. all decorated in a creepy way.
Guests will start down the first hall/corridor, and there will be a closed door on the right for decoration only. Next there will be an open doorway to a hotel room on the left. We haven’t decided on the scene for this room yet.
After they pass this room, the hall will make a 90 degree turn to the right where there will be another open hotel room down the hall on the right. In this room there will be a bed, night stand, etc. in the background with wallpapered walls, scary pictures hanging, etc. and the rocking granny sitting between the door and the bed, so that’s what they mainly see. (I’m going to put an old nightgown on the granny instead of her hospital gown)
As they proceed down the hall, there will be the façade of an old elevator (like the one in Tower of Terror) straight ahead with a static or animated prop (dressed in another Bones the Bellboy costume) waiting for the elevator. Would love to make the elevator doors shake or something, but that will depend on time.
Just before they reach the elevator, they will make another 90 degree turn to the right to start down the next hall. I’m thinking of having an actor run across the hall screaming into an open door to another hotel room on their left & disappear. Straight ahead of them at the end of the hall will be another faux door with a room service tray sitting on the floor outside. I’m thinking of putting old rotten food on it with maybe rats or roaches on/around the tray.
There will be a small jog to the right and they will continue down the hall to one more open room on the left. In this room I’d like to have a spooky little girl standing at the foot of a bed looking down (picture The Ring) and holding a spooky broken doll. On the side of the room there will be a TV with just static playing really loud, and in the back of the room there will be louvered bi-fold closet doors with some louvers missing and a bright like (maybe green) shining out from inside the closet.
They will make another 90 degree turn to the right to go down the last hallway. As they proceed down that hallway it will take on the look of a boiler room with the big pipes and flames, etc. and the end of that hallway will be the exit.
Forgot to mention that throughout the haunt (hotel) there will be faux doors added in each hallway to make it look like there are more rooms than there really is. All the halls will be lined with the look of wainscotting & wallpaper. Haunted portraits will be hanging on the walls.
So far for outside we are planning on making a Chamberwell Hotel sign with a vacancy sign hanging from it with the word "vacancy" flashing in red lighting.
I would love some more ideas for what we can do outside. We like to put up our outside decor by the beginning of October to get people talking. We've always had a huge cemetery with the columns, etc, but I'm not sure if that will fit with this theme... I can't wait to hear everyone's ideas!
Oooh! Spooky!) But I find your theme very fun! If you lived in South Carolina I could loan you some props from my hotel. 
