The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, leans into its spooky reputation.
Everybody leaves here with a story they can tell.
Theres aFrozen Dead Guy Tour, in addition to historic daytime hotel tours and those aforementioned ghost tours.
Exterior view of The Stanley hotel from the infamous hedge maze.Credit:Julie Tremaine/Travel + Leisure
Cullen said that 184,000 people take a tour of the hotel every year.
You could definitely visit The Stanley for a scare-free stay and not see any ghosts.
They were the only guests in the hotel, and they stayed in Room 217, the Presidential Suite.
From left: The hotel’s main staircase, a common place for reported ghost sightings; The Victorian seance room.Julie Tremaine/Travel + Leisure
It was purely serendipity that that particular room is among the hotels most haunted.
By Kings stay, the hotel had fallen on hard times.
(He famouslydid not like the Kubrick version.)
The hotel’s “frozen dead guy” spends his afterlife in the former ice house.Julie Tremaine/Travel + Leisure
The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly within the authors imagination.
Today, Room 217 is the Stephen King Suite.
Theres another way to step into “The Shining” for fans of the film.
The plaque on the “Stephen King Suite” at The Stanley Hotel.Julie Tremaine/Travel + Leisure
The carpets are that unmistakable geometric pattern, and the furniture is iconically midcentury.
The only thing thats out of place is an oil painting of Stephen King hanging on one wall.
There are tales of a ghostly Flora Stanley, hotel founder F.O.
The Redrum Punch from The Cascades bar.Julie Tremaine/Travel + Leisure
Mr. Stanley’s ghosthas been seenat the reception desk.
And then, of course, theresRoom 217.
A note left to “fellow Constant Readers” inside the Stephen King Suite.Julie Tremaine/Travel + Leisure
The scariest bathroom in the world, inside The Shining Suite at The Stanley Hotel.Julie Tremaine/Travel + Leisure
