Editing Hotel Delfino

'''Hotel Delfino''' is a luxurious four-star<ref>{{cite|quote=The gentle lapping of the sea accompanies spectacular sunsets and romantic dinners beneath starry skies. The four-star Hotel Delfino has it all.|author=[[Guide Book]]|title=''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''}}</ref> hotel resort on [[Isle Delfino]]. It is located on the island's southwest coast, and it serves as the pivotal location in [[Sirena Beach]], the sixth world of ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''. The hotel is owned and managed by a [[Pianta]], the [[hotel manager]]. The hotel's Japanese name, along with that of Casino Delfino, is the only instance of the word "Delfino" in the Japanese version of ''Super Mario Sunshine'', outside the opening cutscene, where the English voices are used even in Japan. [[Mario]] visits the hotel in search of [[Shine Sprite]]s. At noon, prior to Mario's arrival, the hotel got attacked by [[Phantamanta]], which covered the premises in [[electric goop]] and made the hotel vanish. Mario arrives at sunset during another attack of Phantamanta, allowing him to battle the creature and free the hotel from the [[goop]].  

After Mario defeats Phantamanta, the hotel itself becomes accessible. Mario has to deal with a massive [[Boo]] infestation inside the building. In search of Sirena Beach's Shine Sprites, he has to circumvent the hotel's security system, battle Boos in the foyers and the attic, and use hidden pathways and portals to get from room to room. The source of the ghost invasion is eventually located inside the hotel casino. Here, Mario battles [[Big Boo (character)|King Boo]] beneath the giant roulette wheel. Mario's quest in Hotel Delfino then comes to completion with a [[Shadow Mario]] duel and a final [[Red Coin]] hunt through the various hotel rooms.

Hotel Delfino appears to be inspired by the Overlook Hotel, a fictional establishment that serves as the setting for the 1977 American horror novel {{wp|The Shining (novel)|''The Shining''}}. Both hotels are located in secluded areas of their parent countries and are inhabited by ghosts, and the encounter with Phantamanta outside the hotel parodies the novel's ending, in which Danny Torrance looks back at the Overlook Hotel's destroyed remains and describes a large apparition rising from it that "assumed the shape of a huge, obscene manta, and then the wind seemed to catch it, to tear it and shred it like old dark paper. It fragmented, was caught in a whirling eddy of smoke, and a moment later it was gone as if it had never been." Additionally, the maze-like layout of Hotel Delfino seems to nod to the {{wp|The Shining (film)|1980 film adaptation of ''The Shining''}}, in which the hotel's interior architecture is subtly and intentionally implausible and inconsistent.