Hotel Zaza in Houston, Room 322

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http://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comm...with_room_322/

stay here frequently when on business. Hotel was booked solid and my colleague managed to score a room unplanned. We all had normal zaza style rooms (swank) and he ended up in this goth dungeon closet.

Seriously- the room had a chain holding the bed to wall, pictures of skulls and a creepy, incongruous portrait of an old man.

Room was about 1/3 the normal size with the furniture blocking part of the TV, bed and window.


We asked about it at the front desk and the clerk looked it up and said " that room isn't supposed to be rented.' and immediately moved him.


Anyone know whats up with this room?


And to the very new redditor offering me a bounty to delete this thread - I'll totally do it because cash is cash. But i don't want to die either. So let's do this publicly - I'm posting your message you sent me. And we can meet at the Monarch bar next week - I'll be in town on Monday & will update this thread when I get to Monarch so we can meet. screencap of offer

Here's the room



Two way mirror











A reddit response:

[–]Angelfcuk 64 points 1 year ago
Its not uncommon at all for hotels to have a few small rooms they don't advertise to guests. I've worked for a few preferred hotels like The Zaza. I'm not surprised that they turned a small room like this and I believe your right on the 2 way mirror. People with too much money will pay big bucks for a freaky place to bang their pricey escorts. After years of working in high end hotels you come across quite a few creepers. Oh the things I've seen and odd requests guests have asked for. There's quite a few conversations and images I'd like to erase from my memory.



[–]aceshighsays 31 points 1 year ago
Go on...



[–]Angelfcuk 41 points 1 year ago
I once witnessed 2 old rich republican type business men in there late 50's escorted to their rooms by 3 trannys. Not a pretty image. I'm pretty sure they thought no one would notice. Or once their was a guest inquiring how many men could fit on a bed in one of the guestrooms.

From VC

When the story came out, people from the hotel’s PR responded that room 322 was a theme room entitled “Hard Times” and was meant to recreate a “prison experience”. This room is however not advertised anywhere and, as some people noted, there is nothing in that room that really recalls a “prison experience”. Do jail cells have huge mirrors, brick walls and frames of skulls, weird deformed faces and company CEOs on walls? Not really.


Another strange fact, a year before this story came out, a book author posted on her blog a little something about room 322 as well. This is what she wrote about it:

“When I checked into Houston’s Hotel ZaZa at midnight on Thursday night, there was some confusion. My first room was a themed room, known as the Hard Times room; this skull was on the wall. A few minutes after I got there, the front desk called up and said they had to move me; the people at the front desk were deeply upset at the thought of me being stuck in this room.”
– Source: Pop Culture Nerd

Apparently, hotel staff do not want everyday visitors to stay in that room. Is this room called “Hard Times” because it is used for occult elite trauma-inducing rituals? Cannot say for sure, but this is definitely a sinister site.

Then the screenshot of the message asking that it be taken off reddit.

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@Cthulhu

this is the one I was telling you about

[Captain Obvious]

You know, I wouldn't mind staying there, looks kinda cool.

[Common]

Code I have no idea what your talking about here

[Codename Section]

Code I have no idea what your talking about here

@Common Oh and @Green Arrow you'll think this is weird, too.


This business guy always stays at Hotel ZaZa while in Houston and checked in and got room 322. He goes to his room and the floor is concrete, there are chains everywhere, a two way mirror, weird art, and the President of the Stanford Group's photo on the wall. He's expecting a normal hotel room so he takes pictures. Within 5 minutes the manager's calling tell him they made a mistake and they're moving him to the best room in the hotel.

He posts it all on his tumblr account and people started calling the hotel about staying in room 322. The management tells them there is no room 322 and it's storage now. He posts his story on reddit and it blows up with other people working in hotels saying that all hotels have special rooms for business people and government officials no one knows about.

The person who gave him the room got fired and he got a message saying they'd give him $1000 if he keeps quiet.

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Look at the weird art, President of Stanford Group.






Who could sleep with art like that on the wall?

[PolWatch]

wow!

[Codename Section]

I'm not supposed to talk in specifics, but as private security we sometimes guard "important people". You'd be surprised what $#@!ing weirdos they are.

[Common]

@Common Oh and @Green Arrow you'll think this is weird, too.


This business guy always stays at Hotel ZaZa while in Houston and checked in and got room 322. He goes to his room and the floor is concrete, there are chains everywhere, a two way mirror, weird art, and the President of the Stanford Group's photo on the wall. He's expecting a normal hotel room so he takes pictures. Within 5 minutes the manager's calling tell him they made a mistake and they're moving him to the best room in the hotel.

He posts it all on his tumblr account and people started calling the hotel about staying in room 322. The management tells them there is no room 322 and it's storage now. He posts his story on reddit and it blows up with other people working in hotels saying that all hotels have special rooms for business people and government officials no one knows about.

The person who gave him the room got fired and he got a message saying they'd give him $1000 if he keeps quiet.

OH wow lmao, casinos have heliports on their roofs the influential fly in land on the roof go in special entrances right into special rooms the public never sees. Its all true.

[Cthulhu]

I bet this is an initiation room.

Sent from my evil cell phone.