Surviving the Zombiepocalypse Stanley Hotel Style

Written by Scotty

Now I know that the Zombie Apocalypse might be coming and we all need to have our plans in place for when it actually takes place.  I make no reservations that I love the Stanley Hotel and if I am going to go out, I might as well be in the place that makes me happiest.  I could think of no place better to be held up than in a haunted hotel for when the world ends, but there are some things that will have to be done to secure the location so the only worries will be the ghosts and not the flesh eaters moving up the mountains looking for a nice piece of you. 

First, you will have to board up all of the windows on the first level.  This should be the easiest thing to accomplish since there is plenty of old wood lying around, in the form of tables and pianos.  But that is not the only concern with there being three entrances on the first level, you will have to make sure that they are all taken care of.  The main door would be the easiest since you just have to move the Stanley Steamer car in front of it, but everyone would forget the coffee shop entrance as well.  It would be great to be able to just let the basement area go, but there is a staircase that leads into the hotel from there, so you have to take care of that. 

With the front all locked down, you will have to worry about the back door as well.  It is a majestic walk way and even with gates all around the estate, there are plenty of openings that a zombie could find its way into.  You will need to board this off for sure and I would hate to say it, but the whisky bar will have to be sealed off, along with the ball rooms.  With the heavy doors already in place for this, all you have to do would be to block them with something heavy. Now most people would chose to move to the higher floors in the hotel and just block off the staircases, I do agree with this way of thinking, but the main staircase is massive and it will take a lot of work to get it blocked off before being attacked by a flesh eater.  So if you are able to get the main entrances blocked off instead, you will have plenty of time to make other alterations to the building.  

Now you will have to take care of the guests that have turned.  With over a hundred rooms in the main building, this will take up a majority of your time.  Get a key and start clearing out the rooms one by one would be the best way to take care of this.  Starting with the outlying rooms first, you will have the threat cornered so they will not be able to move around too much and become less of a nuisance.  The center rooms on the floors should be the last to take care of since there is little to no chance to stop a horde of the undead from taking over the hallways.  

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So, you have secured the main floor, you have killed off all of the zombies in the hotel and possibly created some ghosts of your own it is time to take over the hotel and call it your home.  With your choice of rooms, you will be able to select anyone that you want to stay in, providing you have not splattered too much blood all over it.  But let’s just say that the barricades downstairs do not hold, are you done for?  Not just yet.  The rooms are pretty secure and it would take several zombies to push through them and there is not enough room for this to happen, and as long as you are quiet, you should be fine until they move on.

If they decide to take up residence in the hotel however, what would your next play be?  Well, there is a clock tower that you can move up to and the door would be easy enough to put something on top of to keep anyone from muscling their way in.  This should be a last resort since the tower is fully exposed to the elements and if it is cold outside you may find yourself freezing to death, Jack Torrance style.  So the long and short of it, make sure that the zombies do not find a way into the hotel since it is not the stronghold that you may be looking for.  If you are not able to secure the first floor, there is no use in trying to ride out the threat in the hotel.  After the zombies make it up the main staircase, there are two staircases on each floor that they can choose to go up, along with the skinny servant’s staircase as well. 

Overall, this would not be the best place to try and ride out the zombie apocalypse.  The hotel is not made to withstand this sort of event, it is a majestic location, not one to survive the end of days.  Even with the deadbolts on the doors and apparently inside of the closets as well, there is too much that will have to be done and when it is all completed and you have not been chomped yet, you will have to find an easy way to get in and out of the hotel.  There is a fire escape that you can use, but once the zombies see you using it, I am sure they will be camped out looking for their next meal.  Sorry to say that my favorite place on earth is not the place to survive the zombie apocalypse, unless of course you would like to become a ghostly guest…until you get hungry and need to find someone to munch on. Either way, here's a ton of pictures of all the places I talked about in this plan (and a special surprise picture), and maybe just maybe it will help you come up with your own ideas on how to survive the Zombiepocalypse Stanley Hotel style.

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