Van Serai Hotel

Most of the windows of the Van Serai Hotel which once overlooked the bustling Concourse are now covered by plastic boards and sheets of tarpaulin. The hotel is now abandoned, and several of the upper levels are sealed off.

Despite its obvious lack of management and service staff, the Van Serai often has guests. The warren of old quarters and dusty corridors is home to several squatters of varying degrees of dementia. Spacers also come here to fix up a room or two for the night, rather than sleeping in the cramped berths of their starships. Most of the doors still open and close, so rooms are somewhat secure against the ambling about of the hotel's less coherent guests.

Most of the squatters are rather harmless runaways, fugitives and vagabonds who ended up on Darknon Station, never found anything to do, and subsequently never left. Most just sit around rooms and the hotel lobby, dressed in short piles of rags and clothes, moaning or gibbering to themselves. Such sounds have given rise to stories that the Van Serai is cursed - but most spacers give the rumors no thought and just shut the doors behind them when they take up quarters for a night in the hotel.