The hotel we stayed in Boston at last Sunday and Monday is straight out of a Stephen King novel.
We were in the Omni Parker House. It’s a 4 Star, but creepy as all get out. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is colored gold lame straight off an Elvis costume in the 60s; the wall paper, the carpet, the curtains, etc. Then it’s all trimmed with a color that can only be described as Red….rum.
The style of everything is all 1940s/ 1950s gauche hotel theme. The long thin hallways make you feel like two ghostly twin girls are following you.
Speaking of the hallways, they seemed to chaotic in and of themselves at points. There would be spots on the floor we stayed that would suddenly meet six stairs that you had to climb to continue down the floor. There are turns that appeared to lead to hidden rooms. Some went nowhere. They just turned into a space that had three walls. Then there were doors that seemed to be painted shut with little plaques on them that say things like “Electric Telephone Room”. Does that mean anything to anyone not living in 1923???
On a table, down the hall from our room, in front of the elevators sat a single desk with a single rotary phone sitting on it. Next to the phone is a sign that says “Silence is golden”. I know they’re referring to respecting other guests, but just that set up with those words, in front of a creepy gold lame mirror in this whole set up came across as really creepy.
To top it all off, the light in our shower only added to the atmosphere. Every time you turned it on, it would do the whole flickering thing you seem in basements where serial killers put their victims.