World’s most haunted, luxury and best designed hotels
By Darren Cronian on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

The Travel Rants blog carnival is a monthly feature that promotes great travel content written by bloggers. This month’s carnival theme is ‘hotels’ and I have found five blog posts that I would like to share with readers.

World’s most haunted, luxury and best designed hotels

The world’s 50 most decadent hotels

Maybe one day I will win the lottery and be able to stay in one of these fabulous hotels. With prices ranging from £300 – £3,500 a night, you would have to have a nice bank balance to stay in these hotels. My favourite is the four seasons Whistler resort, stunning views and a modest £2,000 a night.

Which hotel would you like to stay in?

Malaysia’s First World Hotel is First in Sheer Size

I’ve been to Malaysia and I love the people and the country, the hotels are state of the art, and unlike London hotels, not a crack in the wall or dirty carpet to be found. However, Malaysia’s largest hotel looks rather ugly and unattractive.

What do you think?

Top 10: Boutique Hotel Designers

A bloggers budget does not stretch to a boutique or luxury hotel but some of these hotel rooms look magnificent. A lot of time and effort has obviously gone into the design, just like this post, which is an in-depth look ten-boutique hotel designers.

Have you stayed in a boutique hotel?

Would you want to stay here? Wait for it …

An hilarious post on Gadling that displays a photograph and a quote a B&B’s website. This little bed and breakfast looks quaint, and well maintained but look at the photograph properly, and is that a nuclear reactor in the background.

Is this for real?

Five of the world’s most haunted hotels

Believe in ghosts or not, but I do not think I would like to stay in any of these haunted hotels. The hotel girl asks if it is just a marketing ploy. I wonder if people search specifically for a haunted hotel. An interesting Halloween run down of five of the world’s most haunted hotels.

Would you stay or have you stayed haunted hotel?

To complete your fix of hotel content have a read of posts that I have written featuring unusual hotels. When surfing for content to be featured, I use StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Del.icio.us so please feel free to add me as a friend or follower.


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11 responses to “World’s most haunted, luxury and best designed hotels”

Nathan Midgley | 5 November, 2008 at 12:58 am

Ha – I posted that Gadling thing straight after reading it too. And to think I’d have missed it if I wasn’t glued to US election coverage :)

It seems kind of accurate from google maps, but the photo looks so fake. Maybe they’ve done something to exaggerate how close the power plant is. I wonder if the owners of the hotel will pick up on all this…

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Darren Cronian | 5 November, 2008 at 1:14 am

@ Nathan

I could not find any reviews on Trip Advisor for it neither. It’s pretty funny, but whoa could you imagine if it was that close and you were staying there. Haha.

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Andy Hayes | 5 November, 2008 at 8:14 am

Oh my god, that is funny…wow! Does traveller’s insurance cover respiratory disease courtesy of a quaint B&B?

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Happy Hotelier | 5 November, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Ha Damien the Happy Ranter forages into Hotels:-) Good! Good!

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Nick | 5 November, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Not sure it is real darren as there is no reactor listed for lodz.

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Nathan Midgley | 5 November, 2008 at 11:45 pm

@Nick – i was sceptical too, but follow Gadling’s google maps link. It doesn’t have to be a reactor to have a cooling tower. I think the photo has been messed with but there’s definitely a big cooling tower near to the hotel.

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Rohan | 6 November, 2008 at 7:40 am

That is well funny! I wonder if the hotel owners know about this attention that the B&B is getting. I loved the hotels Darren, the one in Thailand was my favourite and only $1800 a night, cheap as chips.

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Anthony | 6 November, 2008 at 11:28 am

Darren,

There are whole sites out there devoted to haunted hotels (hauntedhotelguide.com for starters), so it does seem that there is a demand for visitations from the undead in the accommodation industry. It will, however, be a long while before Mr & Mrs Smith launches ‘Boutique Hotels – The Demonic Collection’, I dare say. Although we have just introduced one inn, The Ragged Cot which is apparently also home to the ghost of a murderous former landlord and highwayman. The staff swear to constant spooky goings-on…

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Cherrye | 8 November, 2008 at 12:08 pm

I’ve been to – but never stayed in the Haunted Hotel in San Antonio. I was freakishly looking for ghosts and trying to avoid the reception crew. I didn’t see one – but I sure tried!

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Marilyn Terrell | 8 November, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Emiy Haile of BudgetTravel has a great story about the revamped guesthouses in the mountains of Transylvania, and a special Halloween dinner in the town where Vlad the Impaler was born:
http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702037.html

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MarkH | 9 November, 2008 at 12:17 am

Do you have to pay more for the extra room guest in a haunted hotel?

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