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Top Creepy Abandoned Hotels
Things don’t last forever. Abandoned hotels have an eerie charm that gives us chills. They were once lively and busy, but now they’re quiet and creepy, sparking our imagination with their ghostly history. If you enjoy creepy stuff, check out this list of the scariest abandoned hotels that are guaranteed to give you goosebumps.
If you like spooky places and scary stories, you’ll be intrigued by the world’s creepiest abandoned hotels. These deserted hotels have a haunting appeal, with their decaying walls, empty hallways, and tales of guests who never left.
1. The Haludovo Palace Hotel
The Haludovo Palace Hotel is a deserted resort on the Croatian island Krk. It was built in 1971 with an investment of 45 million US dollars from Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse magazine. In 1972, the Penthouse Adriatic Club casino opened in the hotel but went bankrupt a year later and closed. The hotel was owned by the Rijeka-based Brodokomerc ‘company’ due to restrictions on foreign investment in communist Yugoslavia. During the Yugoslav Wars, the hotel served as a refuge for refugees.
In 1995, it was privatized and changed hands multiple times. The hotel welcomed its last guests in 2001. Today, the resort is abandoned and the interior is destroyed, but the buildings remain. In October 2018, plans were announced to redevelop the venue into a closed resort with external investment, which would also restrict public access to the beach and disrupt the beach promenade between Malinska and Njivice. However, the City of Malinska, state administration, and locals oppose this proposal.
2. Gran Hotel y Balneario
The Gran Hotel y Balneario in Cuba is one of the abandoned hotels that adds to the list of creepy places. During the day, it looks beautiful, but it has been deserted for a long time, and standing on its front steps gives a creepy feeling. Originally, it was a popular vacation spot for wealthy people visiting the small town of San Miguel de Los Baños. However, due to water pollution caused by a nearby sugar mill, the entire town was evacuated in the 1950s. Although the residents have returned, nobody wants to go back to the Gran Hotel y Balneario, so it remains deserted until now.
3. Buck Hill Inn
Buck Hill Falls is an abandoned hotel and is a private resort community in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1901 as a getaway for Quakers from Philadelphia, led by Charles F. Jenkins. Jenkins served as the president of the Buck Hill Falls Company until his death in 1951.
The original small wooden inn was replaced by a larger stone building in 1926. It was a popular destination until the 1970s and 1980s, offering over 400 guest rooms and amenities like an indoor swimming pool with a retractable glass roof, multiple lobbies, and a fine dining room with live harpsichord music.
Recently, the Inn property was bought by someone else.
4. Ducor Hotel
The Ducor Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia, is a once-luxurious hotel that is now abandoned. It was built in 1960 and had eight stories with a total of 106 rooms. Over time, the hotel deteriorated as squatters occupied it, but they were eventually evicted. There was an unsuccessful attempt to renovate the hotel using funds from Libya. The hotel is situated on Ducor Hill, which is the highest point in the city. From there, one can enjoy views of the Atlantic Ocean, the Saint Paul River, and Monrovia’s West Point district. You can find the Ducor Hotel at the end of Broad Street, across from United Nations Boulevard, in Monrovia’s main business district.
5. Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel
Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, located in the Catskill Mountains near Liberty, New York, was a popular resort for Jewish clients from New York City. It was led by hostess Jennie Grossinger and grew to become one of the biggest resorts in the Borscht Belt area. Unfortunately, the hotel was abandoned in 1986 after many years of operation and hosting notable guests. By 2018, most of the buildings had been demolished, and the remaining few were in a dilapidated state. Tragically, those remaining structures were destroyed by a fire in 2022 and the hotel has been abandoned since then.
6. Coco Palms Resort
Coco Palms Resort, located in Wailuā, Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, was a famous hotel known for its connections to Hollywood, Hawaiian-themed weddings, torch lighting ceremonies, and its unfortunate destruction by a hurricane. The resort and its surroundings hold great cultural significance, housing important historical sites and legends for Native Hawaiians.
The land where the resort stands has been the subject of a longstanding dispute since 1866. At that time, Junius Kaae, along with Kapiolani, Kalakaua, and others, filed a petition to challenge the will of Kealiiahonui, which had been put into probate by Levi Haʻalelea in 1855. Following the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Sanford B. Dole, who was serving as a justice of the provincial government’s supreme court and later became the president of the Republic of Hawaii, swiftly overturned the petition. Dole required the litigants to sign an agreement for this decision to be accepted.
7. Penn Hills Resort
Penn Hills Resort is one of the abandoned hotels. This hotel is a honeymoon resort in Analomink, Pennsylvania, and was founded in 1944 as a tavern. It expanded in the 1960s, offering over a hundred hotel rooms, a ski resort, and a golf course on its 500-acre site. The guest villas had unique features like floor-to-ceiling carpeting, round beds, and heart-shaped bathtubs.
The resort also boasted modernist streetlights from the 1964 World’s Fair, an ice rink, and an outdoor swimming pool shaped like a wedding bell. Penn Hills Resort attracted young couples who enjoyed activities like archery, tennis, and extravagant New Year’s Eve parties with the motto “No balloon goes unpopped.” Unfortunately, the resort was abandoned in 2009.
8. Hotel Belvédère du Rayon Vert
The Belvédère du Rayon Vert in Cerbère, France, used to be a hotel designed in the art deco style by architect Léon Baille. It was built between 1928 and 1932 and resembles a ship. The hotel had a cinema and a tennis court on its roof, but it closed down in 1983. In 1987, the building was protected as a historic monument. Some parts of the building have been converted into apartments while retaining their original features. Visitors can explore the building in the afternoons. The hotel is located at the north entrance of Cerbère, near the railway and departmental road 914 to Perpignan.
9. Divine Lorraine Hotel
The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, is located at the corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Willis G. Hale and constructed between 1892 and 1894. Originally serving as apartments for wealthy residents of Philadelphia, it was considered one of the city’s most luxurious and well-preserved apartment houses from the late 19th century.
Over time, the hotel fell into disrepair, with graffiti, broken windows, and crumbling stones. However, on September 16, 2015, an extensive renovation project commenced to restore the building.
10. Lee Plaza Hotel
The Lee Plaza (also known as the Lee Plaza Hotel or Lee Plaza Apartments) is a vacant 16-story high-rise apartment building located at 2240 West Grand Boulevard, about one mile west of New Center along West Grand Boulevard, an area in Detroit, Michigan. It is a registered historic site by the state of Michigan and was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1981. Designed by Charles Noble and constructed in 1929, it rises to 16 floors and is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture of the 1920s.