Thank you for choosing the Nowhere Inn!

Established at some uncertain point between 1800 and yesterday, our adventuring founder, only recorded as “N.W.”, started this hotel in hopes of attracting high-end clientele. This did not work. With the Inn’s location near our town’s famous tourist trap Scylla’s Diner and infamous literal tourist trap Charybdis’ Cavern Experience, the Inn instead attracted a different type of clientele. An odder, more adventurous kind.

But as any hospitality professional would, our partially-named founder welcomed all. Every strange, odd guest was accommodated the best Nowhere Inn could. As the Inn’s reputation grew some were brought on as helping hands and staff, albeit only making this place stranger. We embrace all our guests be they fluffy, scaled, crepuscular, nocturnal, cold-blooded, warm-blooded, hot-blooded, bright, camouflaged, sparkly, or shiny. So we please ask you to look but don’t stare.

And please note as of 1981 we have stopped attempting to address noise complaints regarding the sounds droning from the basement or echoing from the woods. At this point these are outside our staff’s ability to mend. But of course, you are welcome to venture down or outside and join them if you wish. Many have.

We don’t know how you got here either. But thanks for staying with The Nowhere Inn.

- Management

What Is The Nowhere Inn?

You didn't plan to stop here. You were just passing through, tired from the road, ready to crash somewhere quiet before finishing the journey home. But the Nowhere Inn had other ideas. The moment you step inside, something shifts. The lighting's a little too warm, the wallpaper a little too busy, and the guests? Well, they're not exactly what you'd call ordinary.

At first, it's small things. A painting that watches you back. A bellhop who moves a little too smoothly. Then you realize the fountain outside isn't just decorative, it's occupied. And deeply opinionated about music. By morning, you're pretty sure the concierge isn't a normal fox boy, the shadows in the hallway have started whispering, and honestly? You're not in a hurry to leave.

Because here's the thing: the longer you stay, the more the oddities start to feel like old friends. The strangeness stops being unsettling and starts being… yours. This place wasn't on your map, but somehow it knew you were coming. And now that you're here, you might just extend your stay. After all, where else can you find a hotel where the weird doesn't just check in, it never checks out?

Hotel Guests

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Inspiration

The Nowhere Inn is born from those roadside motels that time forgot, the motel you pass by on your regular road trip to your family but never stop at. The ones with neon signs flickering in the dusk, where the décor is three decades out of date and nobody seems to mind. 50s, 60s, 70s vibes with bits and pieces from even earlier: shag carpets next to art deco fixtures, rotary phones sitting on doilies, wallpaper that shouldn't work but somehow does. It's stuck in time, but in the best possible way.

It isn't straight nostalgia, though. It's that vintage roadside charm cranked up until it got properly strange. What if Meow Wolf ran a hotel? What if the Haunted Mansion and Hotel Transylvania had a weird little offspring that grew up watching too much Twilight Zone? That's the sweet spot: eerie but not scary, odd but not off-putting. The kind of place where a werewolf ordering a piña colada is just another Tuesday.

The whole concept hinges on one thing: the moment when weird stops feeling wrong and starts feeling right. When you walk into a place that's absolutely bizarre and somehow feel at home. The guests are strange, the staff is stranger, and you wouldn't have it any other way. We're leaning into the oddities, the hijinks, the inexplicable nonsense of it all. Weird is always welcome here, and we've been saving a room for you.

Direct Inspiration

  • Scooby Doo
  • Hotel Transylvania
  • The Haunted Mansion
  • Meow Wolf
  • Twilight Zone
  • Welcome To Night Vale
  • Tower of Terror

Team

Theme Committee

  • Creative Director: Maemae
  • Graphic Design Lead: Neokai
  • Marketing & Communication Director: Gomi Deer
  • Production Director: Spencer
  • Stage Design Lead: Auggie
  • Writing Team: Kitch Fox, Hans Faffing, Ash

Art Team

  • Avery
  • Bee
  • Gecko
  • Kite
  • Moose
  • Onnanoko
  • Royalty
  • SalamanderInSauce
  • Sirkus
  • Smiles
  • StarryAri
  • Tommi Cat

Graphics Team

  • FatBack
  • Flint
  • Goggs
  • Goofy
  • Grames
  • Jeffrey C
  • Nova
  • Smiles
  • Wachi