Stanley Hotel Ghost Tour - Room 217

Video I shot at the Stanley Hotel during our tour on 7/7/08. Room 217 was where Stephen King stayed when he conceived the "The Shining", and the room (in the book) that Danny is warned to stay away from. The guide tells a great story about Jim Carrey bailing out of the room -- and the hotel -- while shooting a film there. (The guide speaks to us as if we are 'in the know' because we sorta are -- my wife and I once stayed in 217, which was established earlier in the tour.)

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• Stephen
• King
• Jim
• Carrey
• Stanley
• Hotel
• Estes
• Park
• Colorado

[dsvictor8975]

2 yrs ago-New Year's eve.At the bar,watchin tv's,few people around.Bar had 3 columns-5 glass shelves stacked w mirrors behind-bottles of liq'r on them.@10 min to 12-top shelf-center-broke,sending bottles crashing down thru shelves beneath,2 the floor.The 2 tenders tending both ends of the bar.Noone was at mid bar.All looked at mess in silence.Tenders cleaned it up fast-new shelves up in 5 min-new bottles up in 10-had a supply of glass shelves-like this happened often.Shelves now are wood.LOVE IT

[WriterDude]

@dsvictor8975 -- EXCEllent story!

[ThexDoctorsxLie]

That's awesome. How much did it cost to spend the night there?

[WriterDude]

@ThexDoctorsxLie I don't recall exactly, but I recall that 217 was rather pricey. The time we stayed on the fourth floor, it was much less but also a much smaller room with no balcony.

[122boxer]

I was on the toilet when i wote this comment

[Bartonhockey08]

I was there in October of 2011. That tour was awesome. I got home in Washington a few days later and had to watch Dumb and Dumber over again just to see that part that shows the hotel. The Shining i have yet to see but i still at some point would like to watch that as well.

[ldchappell1]

I have both versions of The Shining on DVD.I like the Kubrick version for style but it strays too far from the novel. The Jack Torrance character loses his sanity too quickly. The 1997 version is closer to the novel with new material thrown in. I particularly like the scene when all the chairs fell off the dining room tables simultaneously. Stephen King plays the part of a 1940s band leader whose face falls off in grisly chunks. Great stuff. Ooooooooo

[Axeldude]

Those old people be trollin lol!

[WriterDude]

@Tips247 -- I guess I failed to get it across that I know only the mini-series was filmed there, and that I've never seen any attempt to represent the Kubrick feature as having been filmed there as you alluded to in your original comment. Right, all cleared up. :-D

[WriterDude]

@Tips247 Don't confuse the 1980 Kubrick feature film with Stephen King's 1994 ABC mini-series. Many interior scenes of the latter were in fact shot inside the Stanley. Whereas the Kubrick film wasn't shot anywhere near Colorado, interiors OR exteriors.

[DobbyJrCraze]

That ghost tour guide is awesome! I like her! :D

[supatreeck]

kinda flipped my shit at 4:29 when i saw the door open...lol

[supatreeck]

I live like 30 minutes away from estes park i really wanna go there with my friends some time

[gijoyojo1]

@dsvictor8975 cool

[Ctdnyugioh]

@Engelton182 :O