Reuters has news of a possible, future, vacation destination.
The National Park Service is considering adding a hotel to Alcatraz Island, site of one of the world’s most notorious prisons…
About 1.5 million people take ferries to visit the prison cellblock every year, and summer tickets sell out weeks ahead.
But many visitors say they also want to see parts of the 12-acre (5-hectare) island that are closed to the public, including wildlife areas, the room where prison guards bowled and the prison theater where gangsters watched “From Here to Eternity.”
A hotel, likely built in a structure that once housed prison guards, would for the first time offer the general public 24-hour access to “the Rock” and capitalize on the park’s popular night-time tours.
That’s when evening fog shrouds San Francisco from view. But island visitors, like the prisoners before them, can still hear activity emanating from the city.
Is this something people will really want to do for a holiday? Spend the weekend at an old Federal prison, maybe go bowling, catch a movie? I know people are intrigued by the creepy factor but, do you want that to be focus of your vacation?
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Jayne d'Arcy wrote,
I’d go, but then, I also want to spend the night in the Tower of London.
Link | June 16th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Pat Darnell and the Bucket Lists wrote,
See !!! Everyone has a Bucket List.
I will put that in your Bucket for safe keeping Mrs d’Arcy, even if your brother won’t.
I thought they were going to call new facility at Alcatraz Clint Eastwood Youth Hostile B and B and Bowling Lanes.
[btw did you ever go there to the Tower?,/b> I was on a tour there in 1976, and it was wonderful, cool, scary, eminently foreboding,,... etc.. forever memory sort of thing... thanks for bringing that memory out.]
I don’t know Prib, I never got to go to Alcatraz. In the 90’s Japanese I was hosting in SF trade show wanted to go real bad, but I think it was closed… missed that one, drat it all.
Pat Darnell and the Bucket Lists’s last blog post..If I wrote Movie Reviews they would have to stand up to:
Link | June 16th, 2008 at 8:33 am