The candlestick on the mantelpiece of the Ettington Park Hotel, the brass, the 3 candles that are the lit in the evening in the drawing-room, the 17th-century, the most haunted hotel in the Warwickshire (the Shirley family, the “ghost of the White Lady”, the Mary Shirley, the 17th-century, the unrequited the love, and the essential haunted-hotel experience: the creak on the landing at the 2am, the sudden drop of the temperature in the room 12, and the rational brain that says the “old building, the pipes” while the irrational brain that waits for the knock on the door), is the essential UK haunted-hotel atmosphere. The UK is the most haunted country in Europe, and the haunted hotels are the essential British travel experience for the winter. Here are the most haunted.

The Most Haunted Hotels in the UK

• 1–3. The Ettington Park, the Langham, and the Jamaica Inn: The Ettington Park Hotel, the Warwickshire (the Stratford-upon-Avon, the most haunted hotel in the England): the neo-Gothic Victorian mansion, the 1664, the 40 acres, the 4-star hotel, the ghost of the Mary Shirley (the “White Lady”, the seen on the staircase and in the room 304, the tap that the turns itself on at the 3am in the room 304, and the essential room: the 304, the most haunted room in the England, the £200/night, the book the months in advance for the Halloween), the organ music that is the heard in the chapel (the chapel has the no organ), and the essential Ettington Park experience: the Halloween weekend, the ghost tour, the séance, and the essential UK Halloween hotel. The hotel is the also the film location for the “The Haunting” (the 1963, the “Hill House”), and the essential pre-visit: the watch “The Haunting” before the stay. The Langham Hotel, the London (the West End, the most haunted hotel in the London): the 1865, the 5-star, the room 333 (the most haunted room in the London, the ghost of the German prince who the committed the suicide before the First World War on the eve of his wedding, and the figure of the man in the Victorian evening-dress who the appears at the end of the bed in the room 333), the Emperor Napoleon III (the lived at the Langham during the exile), and the £400/night for the room 333. The essential budget Langham experience: the afternoon tea, the £75, and the possibility of the ghost the is the free. The Jamaica Inn, the Cornwall (the Bodmin Moor, the most haunted inn in the England): the 1750, the smugglers, the Daphne du Maurier, the novel “Jamaica Inn” (the 1936), the ghost of the smuggler who the was the killed in the 18th century, the seen in the bar and the on the landing, the sound of the horses’ hooves on the cobblestones outside the inn, the Smugglers’ Museum (the £4), and the essential Jamaica Inn experience: the £80/night for the double, the essential room: the “Daphne du Maurier” room, the £120/night. More UK →
• 4–5. The Witchery and the Dalhousie: The Witchery by the Castle, the Edinburgh (the most romantic and the most haunted): the 1595, the Royal Mile, the 9 suites (the “Vestry,” the “Guardroom,” the “Inner Sanctum”, the most beautiful hotel rooms in the Scotland), the gothic, the oak-panelling, the roll-top bath, the velvet, the candlelight, and the ghost: the several, the presence that the moves the objects, and the best place for the proposal in the UK. The £350–500/night for the suite, and the essential: the book the 3 months in advance. The Dalhousie Castle, the Midlothian (the Edinburgh, the most haunted castle-hotel in the Scotland): the 13th-century, the dungeon restaurant, the spa (the hydro pool in the old dungeon), the ghost of the Lady Catherine (the “Grey Lady”, the 16th century, the died of the broken heart, the seen in the castle corridors and the chapel), and the essential Dalhousie experience: the ghost tour, the £30, the dungeon, the story, and the best ghost tour in the UK. ~£150/night for the double. The essential UK haunted-hotel tour: the October, the 3 nights: the Jamaican Inn (1), the Ettington Park (1), and the Dalhousie Castle (1)