This is the Chateau Tongariro Hotel on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu.
It was built in the late 1920s but, in the long years since, it seems to have become haunted by the spirit of The Shining. Not the haunted Overlook Hotel from the movie, mind you, but the spirit of the film itself.
Big band music even wafted through the air around the bar. Seriously.
This is my room. Bathtub empty. I checked.
And this was the view out my window but a moment before snow started falling.
In addition to the formal dining room and bar, there was supposedly a cafe accessible from the second floor, toward the back of the hotel, and down a long series of stars.
That sign waaay in the back with an arrow pointing to the right may as well say “pepil fud” scratched into the wall by a monster’s claw. Nice try.