Get A Ghoul Nights Rest

A British Theme Park is offering guests a ghoul nights rest. If you book one of their "scare rooms" the staff will do their very best to do just that - scare you.

Maniacally grinning weirdos barging into your hotel room to shriek insanely at you, crank phone calls until all hours and incessant banging on the wall. Normally if you experience these sorts of interruptions to a night's sleep, you've had the misfortune to book into an establishment also playing host to a stag party or touring rugby club. But if subjecting yourself to this sort of nocturnal terror sounds more treat than trick, a stay in one of Alton Towers Hotel's new Scare Rooms could be just the ticket.

It's all in aid of Halloween, of course, a festival the theme park is enthusiastically embracing with a host of spooky activities on offer during its Scarefest. Prices for a stay in a Scare Room start from £46 per person and the one thing guaranteed not to await those retiring for the night is a good kip. The five rooms have been given a suitably ghoulish makeover with red lighting, ripped curtains and blood-stained walls.

Guests can also expect to find themselves tripping over gruesome props, including hideously mutilated soft toys and wooden stakes. The latter could come in handy when warding off visitations from the assorted spectres and fiends that are the hellish highlights of this particular fright night.

They have the full range of characters, from the grim reaper to an evil clown. All the fright you can handle at a bargain price. It you want to book a room, the Alton Towers site is here. If you go to the Scarefest website, they have a scary picture generator. You can upload a picture, then adorn it with a number of new looks. We do not advise uploading a picture of Nancy Pelosi, however. The website should be back up shortly.