Trauma Towers
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Trauma Towers is a themed funhouse attraction based at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in the North of the United Kingdom.[1]
Formerly The Haunted Hotel, the attraction is a walk through a themed funhouse, themed as a dark traditionally decorated "haunted" hotel, in which you are to make your way to the "Baronial Dining Hall" where you have been invited to dinner by the host, so the story goes. The outside of the hotel is painted blue, and ramshackle with animatronics behind windows, and some plaques and signs on the front, including an AA award saying it is a 3 star hotel. The area outside Trauma Towers is called Trauma Towers plaza, and includes gargoyles, ornate stone benches and until recently, a fountain which had blood-red stained water.
[edit] Walkthrough
- Reception Area - Where a 'bellboy' allows you into the hotel via an old fashioned check-in, with wood panelling, classic paintings and antlers and photos on the wall, including humorous wanted ads and signs, as well as keys hanging on the wall behind the reception.
- Garden Room - A dimly lit room overgrown with plants, some of which swipe out at your ankles as you pass.
- Lounge - With a heavily slanted floor.
- Dark Corridor - With some textured floors and a plank-walk across some bubbling water.
- Crypt - With a sudden tilting floor by a broken and empty stone coffin behind railings, although sometimes the coffin contains a skeleton.
- Furnace Room - A large furnace dominates one corner, chains dangle from above, and a bound female body sits in a tin bath by the furnace, her head concealed within a tied sack.
- Staircase - Leading upwards, with a large werewolf head mounted on the wall above.
- Bedroom - In which we see a figure in bed, holding a crucifix up against a vampirical ghost who is hovering in the corner of the room.
- Games Corridor - In which we see several ghouls playing Pool with a floating ball, the ghoul gags include the Cryptkeeper and a ghoul with a spinning head, as well as Vampire children with glowing eyes.
- Balcony - A sponge-floor enclosed walkway with a window on one side, through which you can see down over the reception/check-in area. This corridor has a false end using mirrors to give the effect of more doors in a longer corridor ahead.
- Dressing Room - Involving the classic gag of a beauty looking in the mirror, to see herself transform to a ghoul.
- Library - With some slanting floors, books slide in and out, a fireplace flickers, some wall decorations move about, a large gargoyle with red eyes dominates a corner of the room. Also in this room, a false door arch threatens to drop on visitors, there is seating in two corners, and occasionally 'bellboy' staff members hide in this room.
- Bathroom - A bathroom with a flickering light only allows a brief glimpse into a filthy bathroom with a blocked up toilet, broken sink, and overflowing bathtub, in which a female figure appears to be submerged and drowned.
- Organ Corridor - A corridor with doors (meant to be hotel rooms) on one side whereas on the left hand side an animatronic of a Phantom playing an organ can be seen in blacklight. This is also the waiting area for the "Baronial Dining Hall", in which a recording plays advising pregnant women and people with back problems and heart disorders to pass through the hall via another path.
- The Baronial Dining Hall - a large room containing a tageda ride and heavily themed to an old banquet hall, complete with a large tableclothed and set table in the centre of the ride, and artwork, suits of armour, statues, flags, chandelliers and furniture etc around the room.
[edit] The Baronial Dining Hall
Once seated around the table, the lights go out and footsteps are heard moving across the room, and a breathy noise is heard, as a shot of air is blown behind the necks of riders. Above, we see a demon figure in the ceiling with flashing lights, as the lights go out, we hear flapping noises, and the demon is then shown on the other side of the room in the ceiling, again with flashing lights. As the lights go out, a louder roar is heard, a crunch, and a scream, at which point a small amount of water is released from the ceiling over riders, to imitate blood.
The chandellier lights then light again, and the ride then spins very fast in one direction as the orchestral score plays, and a piston occasionally makes one half of the "bowl" shoot upwards and down again.
Upon the ride ending, visitors leave via two double doors on the other side of the Baronial Dining Hall, which lead outside to the front of the attraction.
