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🛏️ Haunted Hotels You Can Stay In in the UK

Reading about a ghost is one thing; turning the light off in its room is another. These are the haunted hotels in the UK where the ghost stories come with a bed for the night — castle hotels with a grey lady on the stairs, Georgian inns where the rocking chair moves on its own, country houses whose owners will happily tell you which room to avoid (or request).

Every guide below explains the reported hauntings, what guests have actually said happened to them, which rooms are the storied ones, and the practical side of booking. Where a hotel runs ghost-hunt evenings or Halloween dinners we say so.

6 places · guides with full ghost stories first.

Haunted Hotels You Can Stay In in the UK: your questions answered

What is the most haunted hotel in the UK? +

It depends who you ask, but Lumley Castle, Ballygally Castle, the Mermaid Inn in Rye and Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor are the names that come up most, each with decades of guest accounts. All four have full guides on this page.

Can I request the haunted room? +

Usually, yes — most haunted hotels know exactly which room guests mean and will book it on request, though the famous rooms sell out around Halloween. Each guide names the storied rooms where the hotel has published them.

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