The spot opened at the end of April after the pandemic forced its March 2020 grand opening gala to be called off on the day of, and it survives as a symbol of the sort of pre-pandemic entertainment that was increasingly all the rage before nationwide calls to shut down and stay in. Then came the pandemicĬOVID-19 put a pause on Meow Wolf’s most ambitious, risk-taking and topical endeavor yet: the grocery store-inspired Omega Mart, planned for Las Vegas.
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The Madcap Motel experience starts in a lobby with a flowery, elongated couch - a Rose Bowl Flea Market find that looks as if it belongs on a set of a ’70s-era television show - and is filled with photo ops and actors (beware the walking bush), plus a somewhat sinister story line about time travel, shifting dimensions and a philandering motel magnate.Įntertainment & Arts Meow Wolf was set to transform themed entertainment in Vegas and beyond.
You check in, maybe for an hour or two, but there’s no spending the night or R-rated activity in these rooms lined with mirrors, descending lamps, mini-fish-tank-like dioramas, or oversize furniture designed to appear as if it’s floating. “They were like, ‘How will they know it’s not a motel?’ I said, ‘No, you’re kinda supposed to think it might be a motel.’” “A lot of my investors are older people,” says Madcap Motel founder Paige Solomon. Today, however, it’s a family or date-night playground, a fake motel outfitted in midcentury yellows and browns that at times looks like a real one, a relic from an era when Los Angeles wasn’t threaded with freeways.
The word “madcap,” rendered in all caps, is hidden behind a gate - the fence a holdover from the downtown location’s past life as an industrial space.
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