Though the Bates Motel is supposedly in the foggy outcroppings of Oregon, the creepy lodgings recently appeared at the SXSW festival.
Austin, Texas is going to get a little bit creepier this month. After the A&E hit show Bates Motel visits the SXSW festival, the network plans to place a full scale model replica of the legendary hotel featuring some of the very same props used in the show.
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The set-up will also include a Bates-themed GIF booth (whatever the heck that means), according to Mashable.
Elizabeth Luciano, Vice President of Marketing at A&E talked to the website about the display, and the lengths they went to attain the creepy look.
From Mashable:
"“We decided to build [rather than take over an existing space] in order to ensure that the Motel was as true to the ‘real’ Bates Motel as possible,” Elizabeth Luciano, vice president of marketing at A&E, tells Mashable. “We want our fans to feel like they are stepping inside Norma and Norman Bates’ world in a truly unique and innovative way.”"
The best part about this all: the hotel will be an actual funtioning hotel. That’s right. With three fully-functional hotel rooms, the “Bates Motel” will be able to cater to six guests per night. Though, perhaps at the cost of your life.
In order to even get a chance to stay the night in one of the rooms, A&E is holding a contest to allow a lucky winner to stay with a guest overnight.
"“We looked at several major cities to place the Bates Motel, but we kept coming back to SXSW because we know that attendees at SXSW are big Bates fans,” Luciano said. “And putting up a motel next to the convention center felt so contextually relevant — hotel rooms in Austin are always impossible to find during SXSW, so why not seek to help in a clever way that rewards fans?”"
You can catch the Bates Motel at SXSW from March 13th – 21s, 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM daily.
Bates Motel will be coming back to A&E for a third season on March 9th at 9:00 PM ET.
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