Horrifying Weekend at Lasseters this Halloween
Monday, 01 November 2010
Lasseters Hotel Casino was transformed into the most horrendous venue in Alice Springs for their Haunting Halloween Weekend at Lasseters complete with Horrific Halloween Party and the new Tunnel of Terror.
It was all spider webs, mutated limbs and freaky faces at the Lasseters Hotel Casino Haunting Halloween Weekend. The wacky weekend started on Friday 29th October where the Juicy Rump and Sports Lounge bars were decorated with Halloween inspired theming including 20 oversized pumpkins carved.
Nothing was safe at Lasseters Hotel Casino over the weekend, the Casbah Cafe and Bar’s popular cakes cabinet was transformed into the ‘Creepy Cakes’ display complete with spiders and webs. The Spooky Samphire Restaurant’s Brutal Buffet was decorated to resemble a spider infested, murder scene aftermath. The bathrooms weren’t left untouched and featured ripped blood stained sheets hanging from the roof and lipstick written messages on the mirror such as “Help Me” and “I know what you did last Halloween”.
The menus received a facelift as well with popular dishes including ‘Silence of the Lamb Fillet, Frankenstein Fish of the Day, Spicy Brain Beef Salad, Chuckies Chicken and Prawns as well as Wok Fried Tofu Toes. Nothing could escape the Halloween theme with the Devilish Drinks Menu including cocktails such as Dracula’s Delight, Witches Brew and Vampires Blood.
The staff got behind the weekend with ex London based make-up artist Jodie Farrell bought into create Halloween inspired make-up for the Saturday night party.
Lasseters Hotel Casino Marketing Manager Megan Thompson said “we wanted to create a freakishly fun weekend where our guests could really get into the spirit of Halloween, dress up and enjoy something a little bit different.”
The Horrific Halloween Party on Saturday night at the Juicy Rump was certainly popular with almost 500 party goers dressed up and enjoying themselves from 8pm until 4am.
Alice Springs band Audiiohemmaraej consisting of Johnzee Hermawan, Gareth J. Hawkins and Hayden Wackerman entertained the crowd all night and were dressed as three damaged Draculas, complete with full make-up. After midnight inside the Juicy Rump replica of ‘hell’ with red lighting and blood stained DJ booth featuring Draculas DJ Gaz playing beats from scary movies with Michael Jacksons ‘Thriller’ a crowd favourite, followed closely by the Rocky Horror Picture Show theme.
The ramp up to the Juicy Rump was unrecognisable as it was transformed into the ‘Tunnel of Terror’, complete with a loud invasive scary soundtrack, blood stained sheets, hanging skeletons, a lit up coffin, skulls, mutated arms, feet, tomb stones and Nightmare on Elm Street figurines and a female depicting ‘death’ located behind a blood stained sheet who appeared out of no-where to scare patrons as they passed, all added to the terrifying haunted tunnel experience that party-goers raved about.
The effort the crowd went to in dressing up did not go unnoticed with Best Dressed Competitions judged by crowd applause and winners receiving Lasseters Hotel Casino Vouchers.
Nominees for Best Dressed Male included ‘Ghost buster’ John Duncan, Ice-skater Ben Lafontaine and ‘Dead Groom’ Michael Stevens. The winner of the Best Dressed Male Competition was Ice-skater Ben Lafontaine who received a $150 Lasseters Hotel Casino voucher.
The nominees for hotly contested Best Dressed Female were ‘Draculas Bride Natasja Richards, ‘Heidi’ Jessica Swipt and Dead Bride Sonia McMann. The winner was Heidi, Jessica Swipt who received a $150 Lasseters Hotel Casino voucher. Best Dressed Couple nominees were ‘Dead Bride and Groom’ Michael Stevens and Sonia McMann, ‘Jail Birds’ Jack Peikia and Shano Doughty and ‘Zombies’ Heidi Crist and Mark Carter. The winners were ‘Dead Bride and Groom’ Michael Stevens and Sonia McMann who won a $200 Lasseters Hotel Casino voucher.
Children who dined in Halloween costume received a complimentary trick or treat candy bag all weekend.
Lasseters Hotel Casino has 140 rooms, four restaurants; two bars a sports lounge and an international standard casino. It is attached to the Alice Springs Convention Centre and is framed by the magnificent MacDonnell Ranges.
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