Hotel Mario

This page details development materials of Hotel Mario.

Scrapped Hotel Layout#

Hotel Mario background artist Trici Venola would publish several of her level art and layouts to her Instagram in December of 2021. Among them was a level layout for a completely scrapped hotel. Four more layouts from the same hotel would be shared in a Twitter correspondence in December of 2025.

This hotel would have had an aquatic theme and taken up one full screen per level, like the first five hotels of the game. It was almost certainly meant for the scrapped hotel for Iggy; it has the unmarked elevators gimmick introduced in Ludwig's Thump Castle Hotel but lacks the double-screen gimmick that's introduced in Wendy's Blitz-Snarlton Hotel. (For reference, the missing hotel would have been located between Ludwig's and Wendy's hotels.)

Demo Music#

Hosted on the old portfolio website of composer Marc St. Regis was a mix of multiple demo tracks that he composed for Hotel Mario. Another demo track for the game was found in 2025 within the assets of the host website. All of the demo tracks are in full stereo and unmastered. (St. Regis was never credited for his Hotel Mario composition work as his former co-worker, Jack Levy, took all the credit (and therefore was solely credited) for it.)

Audio	Used?	Notes
	Yes, for Roy's hotel	Closest match to Variation 2 of Roy's hotel music. Tempo was increased by 5%.
	Yes, for Morton's hotel	Matches Variation 2 of Morton's hotel music the best. Tempo was increased by around 30%.
	Yes, as Bowser's longer clear theme	Identical to final track in terms of composition.
	Yes, for Ludwig's hotel	Uses different instrumentation than any of the final music. Tempo was increased by around 15%.
	Yes, as the "Biggest Fan" cutscene music	Missing the drum fill at end, but otherwise identical.
	No	This demo track's melody was reused for Larry's hotel theme.
	No	A rather lengthy, circus-like theme that doesn't appear in the final game.
	No	A short ragtime ditty.
	Yes, as the Title/World Map music	Reverb was removed for the final version, and extra instruments were added.
	No	A short triumphant track. Its filename, "MSR-Mario-Finale.mp3", indicates that it was meant for the game's ending.