Las Vegas Haunts is a company in Las Vegas that is comprised of 2 mazes. They are in their 21st year of production and every year I’ve gone it has been a blast. These mazes are run by a volunteer cast. The people here are scaring you because they truly love doing it and I can really feel that when I come here. This being my fourth year attending I also recognize many of the same actors returning back to carry on scaring guests year after year. This season the company also held a few “blackout” nights where guests went through the maze Asylum with just a glowstick and the lights turned off.
Hotel Fear Backstory:
The Feoray family emigrated from Europe where they owned and operated an inn. When Jonathon Feoray came to the states as a young man, he brought with him the knowledge and experience of the family business. He worked at several hotels and inns as he traveled across the country…little did he know his travels would end in his own peril.
Thoughts:
The two characters in front of Hotel Fear always entertain me thoroughly. They stay in character while interacting with guests in line. This maze has a fun variety of effects, some of which allow you to interact in finding your way into the next area. This is a thoughtful maze, with tons of detailing throughout, and prop placement is realistic and makes sense for each room. Every year I see details I missed in previous walkthroughs. The scare zones inside the maze were never unattended and I was greeted with very enthusiastic scares.
Asylum Backstory:
The Asylum began life as The Meadview Health Sanctuary in the late 1800’s. Once a cutting-edge facility like the Kelogg facilities of Michigan, its purpose was to foster good health through controlled diet, exercise and regulated purging of the intestinal tract. As its theories on health fell from social prominence, the facility declined into disuse.
Thoughts:
Asylum is my favorite maze of the two if I had to pick one. Asylum just like Hotel Fear has great detailing inside and the props are amazing. You encounter full size patient beds inside the maze. I attended both a blackout night and a regular night of the maze. The blackout version was also written into the story this year, which I really appreciated because I’m not a big fan of just turning off the lights for no real reason at all. There is an outage at the asylum and as you make your way through the maze you realize there is an infection spreading and that you end up being infected. My absolute favorite effect between both the mazes employs a very disorienting white room where you are following actors’ voices. They really take their time with you in there to keep guests walking around in different directions. I never had any idea which was the correct way to go and this created a sense of unease. The actors consistently give an all-out performance through the whole maze.
My only critique or perhaps a word of caution revolves around the blackout nights. If you have never attended Asylum before and can only come out one night I would recommend seeing the lights on version simply because you’d really be missing out on a lot of great props and details. These details are lost when you only have a small glowstick to see what’s in front of you. If you have attended in the past or can go to both a regular night and a blackout night it’s all the better because you get two different experiences. Having the lights out version was an entertaining twist and of course darkness elicits a higher fear factor for most people and guests in line were definitely fearful about walking through in the dark.
Conclusive Thoughts:
Overall these are really fun mazes with two very different themes. It’s definitely worth doing both of them. Something else I would like to highlight about attending these mazes is the time given to guests. You might wait a little bit longer, but your group will go in on their own. I never run into any other guests inside and this drastically improves the quality of a mazes experience for guests. I’m also always amazed at how long these mazes feel given the actual size of the haunts. They utilize space incredibly well. You will also find that the mazes themselves don’t employ the same effects over and over, I love that there are a variety of sensations you encounter. While waiting to go inside the mazes there are also different characters roaming and scaring guests in line and they really do a good job. Many guests jump, run away, and scream. These mazes are absolutely worth checking out and they make for a really fun night.
Tickets can be purchased online in advance or bought at the ticket booth on site. If you plan to buy tickets on site the transactions are cash only. There is an ATM on site if needed.
Single Admission Ticket to Hotel Fear or Asylum
$17.00
Combo Ticket Admission to both Hotel Fear and Asylum
$27.00
VIP (Fast Pass) Single Ticket Admission to Hotel Fear or Asylum
$22.00
VIP (Fast Pass) Combo Ticket Admission to both Hotel Fear and Asylum
$37.00
Meadows Mall
4300 Meadows Lane
Las Vegas, NV, 89107
