The Gotham Royal Hotel is a huge luxury hotel seen in Gotham City during the Christmas Eve Incident. It was the hotel where Joker (in the guise of Black Mask) had a meeting with Electrocutioner, Firefly, and Bane.
During this event, Joker turned the hotel into a fortress, shut down the elevators, rigged it with enough explosives to demolish the building, and occupied it with an army of goons.
Joker also ended up doing extensive changes to the hotel, including converting the ballroom into a massive nigh-inescapable fairground-themed death trap, as well as rigging a portion of the hotel with snowman bombs that were primed to detonate on New Year's Eve at midnight as part of the demented clown's twisted schemes, although the former was evaded by Batman and the latter ended up detonated a few seconds by Batman (in a failed attempt at disarming the bombs).
History[]
Arkham Origins Incident[]
The Royal Hotel was where The Joker called a meeting with three of the assassins. Batman first entered the hotel from the side building and went through the parking garage, where he found the Joker's ambulance, then Batman took the elevator up to the lobby and went to the security room where he found the Joker in the penthouse.(from security footage)
Batman then witnessed the death of Electrocutioner. After Joker interrupted Electrocutioner playing a game on his phone, and kicked him out of the window to his death far below. Then took his gloves to power a lift, then grappled to the tenth floor, where Batman entered a laundry room and went to the nearby elevator shaft, then made his way up to the nineteenth floor. He then crossed to the west tower, where he encountered a sentry gun. Next he entered the ventilation shaft, and found his way to the top, passing the 25th-floor laundry room, and finds a theme park in the grand regent ballroom.
Then after freeing the hostages in the ballroom, he exited the ballroom and made his way to the overview bar where he encountered Joker goons. Then after defeating them, he left the bar, and breaks open the wall on the side of the bridge to grapple up to the 28th floor, and there he found the snowman bombs that the Joker planted. The Caped Crusader tried to disarm them but fails and reduces the countdown from 7 days and 23 hours to 27 seconds.
Forcing him to jump out of the window and grapple to a Gotham news helicopter that witnesses the following explosion, and takes him to the 39th-floor balcony. (or second level terrace, according to the hotel's map) Then he encounters a large group of henchmen and defeats them and everyone in the poolroom. After that Batman takes the pool's elevator to the penthouse where Joker was, then in a failed attempt to hide, Bane snatched him from the elevator and threw him into the Penthouse. Bane allowed Joker to talk to Batman for a minute. During that time, Joker blew up a building, which was a construction site that was "blocking his view." As Batman proceeded to beat the Joker, Bane interrupted to kill Batman, and then throws Batman out a window to the penthouse library, where they fight until Bane throws him again onto the balcony from before,
As the fight continued, Joker watched at a close distance. Then Alfred calls the Police, and they arrive within minutes. When Joker opened fire on the GCPD choppers. As Bane escaped, Joker tried to stop him, but was blown off the Penthouse balcony by Bane's bazooka. While in free fall, Joker was saved by Batman, handed over to the GCPD, and was taken to Blackgate Prison by Harvey Bullock.
Cold, Cold Heart Incident[]
The Royal Hotel was not able to be accessed, but the entrance was. Batman went there for the second part of the cryodrill that was needed to access the Cryogenic Testing Facility at GothCorp in order to rescue Ferris Boyle from Mr. Freeze.
Arkham Knight Incident[]
The Royal Hotel could have been seen from downtown Gotham City during the game, along with Arkham City, the Gotham Pioneer's Bridge, Seagate Amusement Park, and Arkham Asylum.
A riddle involves scanning a poster for a masquerade ball at the hotel hosted by the Wayne Foundation on January 17th.