Following the success of Santa’s Saloon and Camp Palms: No Kids Allowed, Palms Casino Resort will open the doors to its next immersive seasonal experience, The Haunted Inn, on Sept. 30. The limited-run Halloween hotel will welcome guests through Oct. 31 with no cover and ghoulishly good FB& offerings.

The Haunted Inn, the third concept from Palms Popup Playhouse, transports guests into a dilapidated, supernatural hotel where cocktails, culinary creations, original characters, live entertainment, music, comedy and theatrical environments all become part of the story.

Creepy, funny, strange and interactive, the experience embraces the fun side of Halloween. Guests do not simply visit The Haunted Inn – they check in. The story begins at a front desk with antique details, old telephone, service bell, numbered skeleton room keys and artifacts suggesting generations of questionable hospitality.

Guests can sign the Inn’s registry and provide their “last wish” before exploring a haunted forest and cemetery overseen by Lady Palms, the inn’s elegant and dangerous supernatural matriarch and séance leader.

Her residents include Little Bit, her rebellious punk-rock ghost daughter; Franchesca, a glamorous French maid vampire; Todd, the towering bell captain and would-be horror icon with no confirmed kills; Uncle Heckyll, an eccentric grave keeper with a darker second personality; the invisible and eternally bickering Grandma and Grandpa; and Gary, the inn’s pet werewolf.

Entertainment happens around the guests. Characters roam the inn, improvise at tables and pull the room into séances, ghostly arguments, horror scenarios and processions. Guests may become a murder victim, help Uncle Heckyll bury a body, join Lady Palms’ séance or enter Todd’s questionable entourage. The mix of performances and unscripted encounters means two visits are never the same

FB& extend the characters and storytelling. Signature cocktails arrive in poison bottles, doll-head mugs, blood bags, mini-coffins, skeleton hands and glowing vessels. At The Haunted Inn, even the menu is part of the show.

Featured Drinks

• Lady Palms’ Black Magic
• Grandpa’s Nightcap
• Little Bit’s All Dolled Up and Smashed Pumpkin
• Franchesca’s Blood Drive
• Uncle Heckyll’s Six Feet Under and A Toast From the Grave
• Todd’s Killer Mocktails

Culinary Program

• Todd’s Murder Burger and Cupcake Massacre
• Franchesca’s Vampire Repellant
• Lady Palms’ Broom Service
• Little Bit’s Bite Me! Bat Wings
• Graveyard selections such as Creepy Crawly Chili.

Music provides the heartbeat of the experience, moving among rock, alternative, new wave, pop, hip hop and horror-inspired favorites as character cues, sing-alongs and higher-energy communal moments change the mood throughout the night.

“Our guests love stepping into a completely different world for the season,” said Palms Marketing and Entertainment VP Crystal Robinson-Wesley. “The Haunted Inn gives them an entire Halloween hotel to explore complete with strange residents, live performances, theatrical bites and cocktails and surprises around every corner.”

“For The Haunted Inn, our goal was to push immersive entertainment forward by designing the entire venue as one living, interactive world where every room, character, strange occurrence and even the food and cocktails becomes part of the story,” said ThemeDream Productions President and CXO Donovan Friedman.

“The cast engages guests from the moment they arrive, with the experience unfolding around them through comedy, music, séances and unexpected performances. It delivers the Halloween atmosphere people crave while taking the playful, social energy of Santa’s Saloon and Camp Palms to an entirely new level.”

The Haunted Inn

• Dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 31
• Location: Adjacent to Scotch 80 Prime and the casino floor (same location as Santa’s Saloon + Camp Palms)
• Hours: 5 p.m. to close Wednesdays-Sundays
• Age: 21+
• FB&: Theatrical cocktails, killer mocktails and character-driven dishes available à la carte
• Parking: Free