Lakeview Hotel
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Lakeview Hotel is a hotel built right beside Toluca Lake. It was built and run during Silent Hill's tourist boom, in order to attract guests to visit the town. James Sunderland and his wife Mary Shepherd-Sunderland stayed here on vacation prior to the events of Silent Hill 2. It also serves as a setting in The Grinning Man.
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Silent Hill 2
For the majority of the game James is in search of a way to reach the hotel, as it was a "special place" he and his wife shared and her letter implied that she can be found there.
After James and Mary left Silent Hill, it is implied the hotel caught fire (due to a heater in a room that was right beside a curtain). A painting can also be found in Toluca Prison which depicts the hotel on fire. However, when James arrives at the hotel it appears to him that it never changed in the past three years when, in reality, the hotel was burned, damp and wet. James only sees the hotel in its true state after viewing the Videotape in Room 312. It is in the burned down version of this hotel where James remembers a conversation he had with his wife before she died. Listening to this conversation is one of the determinants towards achieving a certain ending.
The hotel's name is also spelled "Lake View Hotel" (the map in James' car), "LakeView Hotel" (official map) and "Lakeview Hotel" (Maria's subtitles).
Design
There are a total of four floors in the hotel, counting the basement floor. The hotel map is separated into two parts; one for the hotel guests and one for the hotel staff, where the staff map includes every room. Above ground, the majority of the building consists of guest rooms. The second and third floors are mostly private rooms on both sides, whereas the previous floor's rooms are exclusively on the west side. There is a central staircase that extends up to the second floor, however, the third floor can only be accessed by a small stairwell. The hotel also has two elevators, one used by guests and another used mainly by staff. Notable locations inside the hotel building include:
- The "Lake-Shore" restaurant
- Cafe "Toluca"
- Basement floor Kitchen
- Basement floor "Venus Tears Bar"
- Third floor "Observation Room"
The Grinning Man
In IDW's The Grinning Man, the title character brings a number of people he has abducted to the Lakeview Hotel because, as officer Mayberry explains it, the hotel is temporally and spatially challenged. Anyone who could manipulate those conditions would be able to hide a lot of people in the hotel. The Grinning Man binds his victims inside and brands them with his mark so he can feed off of their vitality to power his magic.
Unlike it's game counterpart, the Lakeview Hotel presented in the comic doesn't appear to have been built on Toluca Lake.
Gallery
 The Lake View Hotel and its docks in Toluca Lake. |
 James Sunderland video-taping his wife, Mary, in their hotel room. |
 A beautiful classic music box in the reception room of the hotel. |
 The Lake View Hotel after its destruction by the fire. |
