Halloween travel links: haunted hotels, vampire travel, Southwest’s CEO Gary Kelly in costume; Halloween for L.A.

Happy Halloween, travelers! Don’t start working just yet — let’s chat over morning coffee about what’s going on in the travel-related Halloweenosphere. Hands down, Southwest Airlines is having the most fun. Our friend Grant Martin from Gadling is one of the judges of the Southwest Halloween contest and twittering his experience. Southwest’s CEO Gary Kelly (pictured above as Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top) loves this holiday and lets his blog readers choose his costume.

Meanwhile, Tripso reports that the Northwest staff is dressing up as Delta this year.

Enjoy this spookily inspirational list of travel reading material, and please share other Halloween travel article links in the comments. (Just introduce yourself if it’s from your own blog or website).

> Spooky Walking Tours [Budget Travel]

> Haunted Travels [Travel Channel]

> Vampire Travel: Where the Bloodsuckers Are [BootsnAll]

> 13 Great Travel Horror Movies [World Hum]

> 31 Places to Go for Halloween [BootsnAll]

> Hot haunts in the Midwest [Chicago Sun Times]

> The Great Pumpkin of Halloween roundups [This Just In]

> Travel Picks: Haunted hotels to keep you awake [Reuters]

> HotelChatter’s Favorite Haunted Hotels [HotelChatter]

Halloween links for Los Angeles:

L.A. Halloween Events for Grown-ups

Halloween Haunted Houses in L.A.

L.A. Halloween Events (2008)

10 reasons to ditch L.A. and go to Las Vegas for Halloween weekend

Halloween: Join monstrous masses at West Hollywood Costume Carnaval

Halloween on Catalina Island: fun, sun and ghosts?

Knott’s Berry Farm looks ahead to Halloween Haunt 2009

Knott’s Berry Farm adds six new mazes for Halloween Haunt 2008

Universal Studios Hollywood adds more gore for Halloween Horror Nights 2008

Six Flags Magic Mountain more monstrous for Fright Fest 2008

Haunted Mansion reopens at Disneyland with ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ theme

Are you dressing up for Halloween? What’s your costume?

– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

[Photo: Grant Martin]

Permalink | E-mail | Print | Add to My Trips

This entry was posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 9:12 am by Jen Leo and is filed under Airline travel, Fall, Good Morning, Hotels, Los Angeles, News, Tips & Advice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.