For those who want to live the Halloween party between ghosts and vampires, Hotels.com, a leader in online hotel booking, offers a truly thrilling location tour: in the most terrifying night of the year, sleeping in hotels where the neighbor of the room will be nothing less than a ghost without peace, will be even more disturbing!
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SWEDEN – The Good Ghost of Uppsala
The Krusenberg Herrgård – 4 stars (starting from €196 per room per night) near Uppsala, Sweden, seems to enjoy the protection of a famous ghost, the White Lady. This pleasant spectrum enjoys making jokes to tourists by swinging the chandeliers and dyeing the cutlery in the kitchen, but is so respected by the hotel staff to have even a place reserved in the best table of the Pink Dining Room, the hotel dining room, overlooking the beautiful garden and the lake.
The Swedish medium Terry Evans seems to have come into contact, during a spiritual session on live television, with the cook who murdered White Lady in Krusenberg in 1917; the killer would tell her on that occasion that the ghost of the woman is now happy and will take care of the estate for the centuries to come.
CANADA – The haunted castle of Ottawa
Fairmont Chateau Laurier – 4 stars (starting from €214 per room per night), the first hotel in the Canadian Pacific Hotels chain, binds its double-crossed story with that of its creator, Charles Melville Hays. His ghost seems to be still wandering around today for the rooms of this splendid castle that combines the French Renaissance style with the neo-Gothic, disturbing guests with cynical silences and strange moving objects.
He went to Europe to search for furniture to furnish the dining room, Hays died while traveling back to Canada, on board the Titanic. It is said that he decided to dwell the castle for eternity, since, despite the efforts to build it, he could never see complete his work.
USA – On Stephen King’s footsteps at Shining Hotel
Brivido lovers cannot miss the chance to see the hotel that inspired Shining, one of the most terrifying movies of all time. Stephen King, in writing the novel from which the film was taken, took inspiration from his stay at the Stanley Hotel – 3 stars (starting from €141 per room per night) inside the Rocky Mountains National Park in Colorado.
The book fans flock to this hotel every year, which does everything to keep the interest of fans alive: all rooms have access to a dedicated TV channel that continuously transmits the full version of the film and guests can even venture on a ghost hunt tour in the underground of the hotel. Those who do not want to miss an emotion should ask to stay in room 217, where Stephen King slept, who the legend wants to be haunted by ghosts.
USA – The Mysteries of the Ghost Ship
A cruise ship in Long Beach, California, may seem like a location far from tetra, but everything changes if it’s The Queen Mary – 3 stars (starting from €112 per room per night). The ship, a historic boat used during World War II, is permanently docked in the harbor and is known as "The Grey Ghost", the gray ghost: it is said that several guests of the hotel have seen ghosts wandering around the ship.
The hotel, moreover, is known for the disturbing noises: it seems in fact that from the engine room, where in 1966 a young sailor died tragically during a fire exercising, and from the kitchen, where a cook was burned alive, they hear strange noises and terrible screams coming.
Queen Mary is so linked to the name of a haunted ship that, in addition to setting up a ghost-driven show every day, even has its own research centre on paranormal phenomena.
