{"id":5854,"date":"2014-11-20T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letsnomnom.wordpress.com\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2017-03-23T01:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:44:37","slug":"halloween-at-the-mckittrick-hotel-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/halloween-at-the-mckittrick-hotel-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween at the McKittrick Hotel, Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5885 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween Witch Costume\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284.jpg 1936w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284-520x520.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For us, Halloween has always been all about house parties. Back in the Bay Area, we were always invited to at least one big party. In NYC, it&#8217;s a little different since most people don&#8217;t have quite as much space for a big gathering. This year, we bought tickets to <a title=\"Inferno\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FcWo5FNxLTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Inferno<\/a>, the Halloween event at the <a title=\"McKittrick Hotel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mckittrickhotel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">McKittrick Hotel<\/a>, home of <em>Sleep No More<\/em>. We went to <em>Sleep No More<\/em> 2 years ago, and it was unlike anything I&#8217;ve ever experienced. A creepy hotel seems like the perfect setting to drink and dance the night away on Halloween!<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s skeleton body suit was about $30 on Amazon, and he made sure to buy one that did not have a large logo printed across the butt. Hah! <a title=\"Happy Halloween!\" href=\"http:\/\/letsnomnom.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/31\/happy-halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\">My costume<\/a> comprised mostly of existing items from my closet. I think we did a pretty good job on John&#8217;s makeup, even though it was rushed! And of course, we took lots of skeleton and witch selfies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halloween-selfies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5884 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halloween-selfies.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween Skeleton &amp; Witch Costume\" width=\"580\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halloween-selfies.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halloween-selfies-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tickets to Inferno were not cheap ($100+), but it included open bar and live performances all night long. We never had to wait long at any of the bars, and I had plenty of prosecco that night. No seats unless you have a VIP ticket, but my tired feet still made it to 2am! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mckittrick-hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5886 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mckittrick-hotel.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween McKittrick Hotel Inferno\" width=\"580\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mckittrick-hotel.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mckittrick-hotel-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For us, Halloween has always been all about house parties. Back in the Bay Area, we were always invited to at least one big party. In NYC, it&#8217;s a little different since most people don&#8217;t have quite as much space for a big gathering. This year, we bought tickets to Inferno, the Halloween event at the McKittrick Hotel, home of Sleep No More. We went to Sleep No More 2 years ago, and it was unlike anything I&#8217;ve ever experienced. A creepy hotel seems like the perfect setting to drink and dance the night away on Halloween! John&#8217;s skeleton body suit was about $30 on Amazon, and he made sure to buy one that did not have a large logo printed across the butt. Hah! My costume comprised mostly of existing items from my closet. I think we did a pretty good job on John&#8217;s makeup, even though it was rushed! And of course, we took lots of skeleton and witch selfies&#8230; Tickets to Inferno were not cheap ($100+), but it included open bar and live performances all night long. We never had to wait long at any of the bars, and I had plenty of prosecco that night. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3355],"tags":[589,1328,1329,1330,1331,1464,1715,1774,1968,2043,2584,2589,3277],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0284.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}