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The Alley Hotel escape room in Redlands, CA – a vintage, story-driven experience presented by Escape the Booby Trap, where guests explore a haunted hotel with a dark past.

About The Alley Hotel

Some places are forgotten
Others refuse to be

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A History That Never Left

Tucked away in Umbrella Alley in Downtown Redlands, The Alley Hotel was once a thriving 1920s destination—filled with music, laughter, and late-night secrets hidden beneath velvet curtains.

Guests came for luxury.
For escape.
For indulgence.

But something else was happening behind closed doors.

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The Disappearances

By the late 1970s, stories began to spread.

Guests checking in…
and never checking out.

Staff vanishing without explanation.
Locked rooms that no one remembered sealing.

The hotel shut its doors soon after.

Officially, it was abandoned.

Unofficially…
it was left alone.

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The Doctor

Whispers speak of a doctor who worked within the hotel’s walls.

A man who promised impossible things—
to heal the sick
to fix what was broken
to bring people back

But his methods were never meant to be seen.

Experiments hidden beneath the surface.
Procedures that crossed lines that should never be crossed.

And patients who never left.

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Jack and Story Jane

Among those who checked in…

was a man named Jack
and his daughter, Story Jane.

Performers.
Travelers.
A father desperate to save his child.

She was dying.
And the doctor promised a miracle.

But what happened inside those walls
was never salvation.

It was something else entirely.

Something that changed them both.

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What Remains

The Alley Hotel still stands.

But it isn’t what it once was.

Some say it’s just an old building—
left behind, forgotten by time.

Others say it’s something more.

A place where memories linger.
Where stories repeat.
Where not everything that entered… ever left.

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Three Ways to Experience the Truth

The hotel reveals itself differently depending on how you enter:

  • 🕯 The Tour – Discover the history. Walk the halls. Uncover what happened.

  • 🎪 The Ringmaster – Heartless – Step into Story’s world and play her games.

  • 🔪 The Stairwell – Enter Jack’s version… where everything has broken.

Each experience reveals part of the truth.

But only together…
do they tell the full story.

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A Final Note

The Alley Hotel is hidden within Umbrella Alley.

You won’t find it like other places.

And not everyone who looks for it… finds it.

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Final Warning

This isn’t just a story.

It’s a place.
A memory.
A loop that never quite ends.

And once you step inside…

you may not leave the same.

 

Some guests claim this story isn’t entirely fiction…

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