Sound familiar perhaps? They say it's haunted. It was Stephan King's inspiration for the novel The Shining. He conceived the idea for the novel when he and his wife stayed at the hotel. He had originally been working on writing a story where a family gets locked in an amusement park, but the story just didn't feel right to him until he stayed at the Stanley Hotel and got the inspiration to change the story to a family that stayed in a hotel to take care of it in the winter when it was closed. When they filmed the movie with Jack Nicholson, they actually didn't use much of the Stanley Hotel in the filming because the director (Stanley Kubrick) didnt think that there was enough snow so they actually filmed parts of it in London where there was more snow. But then in 1997, ABC made a TV version of The Shining where the filming did take place at the actual Stanley Hotel. The hotel was also used in a part of the movie Dumb and Dumber, but it in the movie, it's called Hotel Danbury.
So, there you have it, a brief history of The Stanley Hotel.
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| 1909 was the year the Stanley Hotel was built. |
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| Pic of what the hotel looks like in the winter. |
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| The Ball Room-"supposedly" haunted. |
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| They built this stage just for the filming of the 1997 version of The Shining and decided to leave it after filming completed. |
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| These are the original keys they used to issue to guests but if they lost it, it was 200 dollars to replace so they use key cards now but still have these keys on display. |
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| The pics that hang in Men's bathroom....creepy!! In the Women's bathroom, it's all Dumb and Dumber pics. |
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| View from the Hotel |
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| You can take a ride through Estes Park on an old school fire truck...tons o fun! Kids loved it. |
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| Us with Eric's mami and papi |
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| Us in front of the Hotel |
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| Sure doesn't look like a haunted hotel in this pic! |
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