🛏️ 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.
🛏️ Hotel · County Antrim
Ballygally Castle
A 17th-century castle hotel on the Antrim coast with a turret Ghost Room no guest is allowed to sleep in
3 ghosts Stay overnight
🛏️ Hotel · Powys
Craig-y-Nos Castle
An opera diva's Gothic castle that became a TB sanatorium, where children's laughter and arias are still said...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🛏️ Hotel · Midlothian
Dalhousie Castle
A 13th-century Ramsay stronghold turned castle hotel, where a Grey Lady taps on bedroom doors and dinner is se...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🛏️ Hotel · Warwickshire
Ettington Park Hotel
The Gothic mansion that played Hill House in The Haunting (1963), where a governess walks into walls and libra...
5 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🛏️ Hotel · County Durham
Lumley Castle
A 14th-century castle hotel above the Wear where Lily of Lumley is said to rise from the well and touring cric...
3 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🛏️ Hotel · Denbighshire
Ruthin Castle
A castle hotel with a drowning pit, a whipping pit and a Grey Lady who took an axe to her husband's mistress
3 ghosts Stay overnight
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.