Spooky Hotels for a Ghoulish Halloween Treat!

Hotel Queen Mary, Long Beach

Hotel Queen Mary, Long Beach

As the Halloween looms in and our thoughts turns scary, it’s time for yet another treat. For most of us Halloween celebration is the same routine every year; digging the closets to create scary costumes, partying ’til the dawn and eating lots of sweet stuff. But for those daring enough, it’s time to shake things up and try out something unusual and really spooky. Here is a list of some really scary hotel that you must check in for a spooky getaway.

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, USA

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is considered to the home of Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. Marilyn reportedly haunts a full length mirror in a room she frequented and Clift has been heard rehearsing his lines.

Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs

Guests have reported sightings, moving objects and some other odd happenings in several guest rooms, the lobby, dining room and on the grounds of this historic hotel in Haunted Eureka Springs.

Queen Mary Hotel, Long Beach

Docked permanently on the Port of Long Beach, the legendary Queen Mary was commissioned in 1936 and journeyed a thousand Atlantic crossings. Incidents of moving objects, scary voices, and ghostly figures walking the halls and stairs have been reported guests and the hotel staff.

The Langham Hilton Hotel, London

The Victorian-style Langham Hilton Hotel is known be to be the most ghostly hotels, been haunted by seven different ghosts at different point of time.

Breakfast Creek Inn, Australia

The hotel is the most popular scary hotel in entire Australia and was built by William Galloway, the former Lord Mayor of Brisbane in 1889. It is believed that the ghost of the owner haunts the old portion of the hotel. The owner once apparently drunk fell to his death from hotel’s second floor window.

So, leave aside the candy bowl and try out something really scary this Halloween!

Halloween Getaways: Touring Transylvania in Search of Dracula

Europe’s historical cities and traditional countryside are must-check out for those planning a Halloween getaway. For those planning a Halloween-themed trip to central Europe, there is no better place to find frights and chills than at Dracula’s home in Transylvania. Dracula tours are becoming popular with the thrill-seeking travelers, and are certainly not for the squeamish or faint-hearted.

The sites of interest to the intrepid vampire hunter mostly lie in the Transylvania region of Romania. The most popular amongst all tours is certainly the one that takes you to the authentic birthplace its most famous and cruel resident, Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula. The tour starts from Budapest, and involve ample frightseeing opportunities along the way of various Dracula-based points of interest.

Some of the tour highlights include:

• Sampling the fine wine in Tokaj, Hungary.  As per the legend the wine is served by Count Dracula to his guests.

• Live presentations on the world of Romanian folklore, detailing the myths, practices, and beliefs of medieval Romania through to modern day.

• Halloween Party in Sighisoara Citadel; Dracula’s birth place. This medieval city is full of gothic spires, winding, crooked streets, and imposing turrets.

When visiting Romania be sure to pack appropriately. The weather around the Halloween season is unpredictable, with daytime temperatures between 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit, dropping to the low 40s at night. Wish you a ghoulish and screamy Halloween!