Spend a Night in the Bat Cave. This is a hotel room made up of Bat-memorabilia. You can pretend you’re Batman, except that Batman sleeps in a regular bedroom in Wayne Manor.

Sounds awesome! Oh wait…it’s a kids’ room.

Wellllllll…that’s OK, I guess. I mean, lots of kids would love to stay in a Batman room.

Darn.

OK, I admit it. I’m just having fun with you. This doesn’t really look like much! I mean, there’s a couple bits of rock-shaped decor, some “Batman Begins” bat-symbols, a few Batman beanbag figures hanging from strings, and a poster from the worst Batman movie ever.

So yeah, it IS for kids. It ain’t Fantasuites!

A real Batman room would LOOK like the Batcave, with a desk area that resembled Batman’s crime-puter, a big screen TV, a red Bat-Phone, the poles from the 60s show, a hanging Joker card, and at least a wall mural so that it looks like there’s a giant penny, a T-Rex robot and a parked Batmobile in the background. You’d have to customize the furniture, maybe even build some of your own like they do on Trading Spaces.

Do I sound like I’ve thought about this too much? Believe it or not, I have…but from the business end of things, believe it or not.

Last year, Melinda and I took one of our rare vacations to stay at the Nordic Inn in northern MN. It’s a great weekend (probably much more fun if you drink so you can guzzle from an ale horn) where all the rooms are theme rooms, and everyone feasts together and local actors put on a viking show. Lotta fun.

The whole time, I keep wondering what it would take to make a place like that but themed around superheroes. Of course, you couldn’t do anything that violated trademarks, but that still leaves a lot of generalized possibilities. If you have rooms called “The Cave”, “The Ice Fort”, “The Island of Amazons”, “Atlantis”, “The Headquarters”, “Abandoned Warehouse”, etc., it’s not like cave walls or Atlantis are trademarked.

I tell you…soon as I have a million dollars, I’m doing it.