Hotel Hell Vacation

Hotel Hell Vacation is a 14 minute short from 2010 starring Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold and Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold. It finds Clark and Ellen, who are on there way to see their grandchildren, when Clark makes a detour to a "nice and romantic" hotel. It is avalible on Youtube at full length.

Plot
On their way to visit their son, Rusty, and his family, the merry holidaymakers, Clark and Ellen Griswold, still using that reliable Wagon Queen Family Truckster they used to drive in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), decide to make a stop at the fancy hotel called Le Grand Connard. But there, at the supposedly sophisticated establishment, anything that can go wrong will go wrong, ruining Clark and Ellen's brief second honeymoon. Can the Griswolds survive the Hotel Hell Vacation?

Cast

 * Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold
 * Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold
 * Meade Nichol as Hot Girl
 * Robert Lewis Stephenson (as Robert Stephenson) as Front Desk Receptionist
 * Bruce Fine as Claude
 * Travis Greer as Rusty Griswold
 * Alina Phelan as Rusty's Wife
 * Ellodee Carpenter as Rusty's Daughter
 * Lilli Birdsell as Restaurant Hostess
 * James Hyde as Motivational Speaker
 * Karen Y. McClain (as Karen McClain) as Conventioneer #1
 * James Bannon as Conventioneer #2
 * Caley Chase as Maid
 * Glenn Rockowitz (Voice) as Doug
 * David Scully (Voice) as Mel
 * Matt McCain (Voice) as Room Service Guy

Uncredited

 * Hunter Buch as Rusty's Son

Crew

 * Directed by Bryan Buckley
 * Written by John Hughes (original characters)
 * Produced by Cindy Becker (Executive producer), Kevin Byrne (Executive producer) and Mino Jarjoura (Executive producer)
 * Music by Stephen Altman
 * Film Editing by Kelly Vander Linda
 * Visual Effects by Shane Dillon, Gavin Greenwalt, Mike Hanson, Rebecca Kelly, Donald E. Lange, David Llama, Tory Murison, Guy T. Paquin, Nathan Rusch and Jadie Zimmerman