Cartoon Network Hotel is a resort style hotel which is located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The hotel is managed by Palace Entertainment who also owns the Dutch Wonderlandamusement park across from the hotel, with the hotel's name license from Warner Bros.. This also marked Cartoon Network's second entry into the hotel business after the Cartoon Network themed area in a Taiwan hotel called Hotel Cozzi. It also marked the second time that a kids cartoon channel had entered into the hotel business in the US since the rebrand of Orlando, Florida's Holiday Inn Family Suites to Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn in 2003. The hotel opened on January 10, 2020 and it consists of 165 remodeled hotel rooms, a new resort style pool, kids play area, indoor arcade, coffee lounge, full bar, and a gift shop with Cartoon Network related merchandise.
History
As Continental Inn
The Cartoon Network Hotel began as a small family owned hotel called Continental Inn. The hotel consisted of 165 hotel rooms along with a tennis court, outdoor pool and splash area, free breakfast, an indoor pool along with a game room in a separate building called a "Pool House" and a fitness room. It operated until January 2018 when Palace Entertainment, the owners of nearby Dutch Wonderland, purchased the hotel for $4.7 million with the intention of remodeling it into a family friendly resort.
Announcement of new hotel
In October 2018, it was announced a partnership was made between Turner's then owned Cartoon Network and Palace Entertainment to convert the former Continental Inn into the first Cartoon Network Hotel and it would be open in Summer 2019. But in Summer 2019, It didn't made its opening because it was still under construction. In March 2019, despite the dissolution of Turner Broadcasting System, the new hotel retained the Cartoon Network brand with an agreement with Warner Bros., which became the new owners of Cartoon Network that same month. In November 2019, Palace Entertainment made an announcement that the release date was moved into sometime in Summer 2020, after that announcement, the Cartoon Network hotel added many more details of the hotel. Soon, they moved the original Summer 2020 date to January 10, 2020.
Incidents
In August 2017, the hotel, then known as Continental Inn, suffered a mechanical fire near the indoor pool around 4:20 PM, and the fire spread, until firefighters extinguished it quickly. During the fire, 2 firefighters were hospitalized for chlorine inhalation. Damage from the fire was estimated at about $250,000.
Hotel Renovations
During this time, the elevators, and interior were being renovated, along with renovations to the outer part of the hotel. In such activity, this made the resort feel a bit more immersive to the guests, as it had more for them to do and see, along with the theming.
