The Griswolds: Hotel Hell Vacation Part 1
Hotel Hell Vacation is an American online comedy short film. It was released on February 7, 2010 on HomeAway's website. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo reprise their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold. It is the first time Clark and Ellen have been seen in a Vacation film since 1997's Vegas Vacation. The fourteen-minute short premiered as a series of commercials during the Super Bowl to help promote HomeAway, Inc. Although sanctioned by Warner Bros. (which holds the underlying rights to the Vacation series characters and concepts), this film was not sponsored by National Lampoon, Inc., which initiated the Vacation series.
On November 18, 2009, Us Weekly reported that HomeAway announced it was planning to use Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo in a national advertising campaign which would resemble National Lampoon’s Vacation. HomeAway purchased a replica of the Wagon Queen Family Truckster for use in the campaign. The first ad aired during the CBS television network broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010.