MOTHER’S DAY MURDER MYSTERY WEEKEND MAY 9 – 11, 2025

Location

The Wilburton, Manchester, VT

Pack your sparkliest dresses and sense of adventure. Getaway with murder at the musical mystery weekend at The Wilburton in Manchester Vermont.

SYNOPSIS

It is 1955, and the new owners of RKO Studios (famous for King Kong, Citizen Kane, screwball comedies and the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movie musicals) are holding a secret board meeting at The Wilburton to choose the team for one last movie.  In a clash of ambition and revenge, the stars and executives compete to make one last RKO studio production. Everyone is dying to be a part of it!  Will this swanky soiree include getting away – with murder? 

Guests are invited to join the scheming stars, dance in top hats and tails, ‘put on the Ritz’, take a screen test, and compare clues to try to  solve the mystery of THE MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE. Dress in festive cocktail attire, Hollywood glamour, or as your favorite RKO movie character to follow the action through the grand salon, the library and the Billiard Room of the Wilburton mansion. The mystery dinner party extravaganza includes a three-course dinner, and a cash bar with themed specialty cocktails. 

A professional photographer will capture portraits as a souvenir of this unique Vermont experience. Prizes for best dressed and the team who solves the mystery. 

At the Friday welcome party, meet the characters and learn more about the real history of RKO Pictures and the Million Dollar Movie. Saturday, after a bountiful country breakfast, take a guided tour through through Manchester Village. Sunday morning, salute mom with a Mother’s Day mom-osa mimosa cocktail at breakfast while dining with sweeping mountain views in the solarium or outdoors on the terrace. 

Read about the theatrical fun in Broadway World, AARP and The Boston Globe!

Up a winding driveway, perched on the crest of a hill, The 1902 Wilburton mansion transports you to an elegant country manor like an Agatha Christie novel or game of Clue – the perfect setting for a whodunnit!

Stay in romantic mansion guest rooms or share the fun with a group of friends in our vacation homes or suites.

Bring your fur-baby and include your 4-legged family too. Click to see the Mother’s Day doggie slumber paw-ty events.

For more information see WILBURTON.COM or call 802-362-2500

Murder Mystery Weekend Package includes:

• 2 nights lodging in The Wilburton mansion and villa guest rooms.
• Friday 6:00-7:30pm: Meet the suspects at a wine & cheese reception
• Friday 8:00-9:30pm: Mother’s Day Cabaret
• Saturday & Sunday 8:30 – 10am: Country inn breakfast featuring pancakes with VT maple syrup, eggs, bacon & breads from our family farm & bakery.
• Saturday 10 – 11am: Group doggie stroll through historic Manchester Village.
• Guided tour at The Museum of the Creative Process.
• Saturday 6:30 – 10pm: The murder mystery musical dinner party to die for.
• Prizes for most festive costumes and best sleuthing.
• Professional photographer

TO BOOK
• Click here to pick your favorite lodging starting at $235/night.
• Click here to add $150 per person + tax and service for the package.
Call 802-362-2500 for questions or help with your reservation.
Optional splurges:
• Pamper yourself with in room massages $125/hour • Champagne & Chocolates in your room $60. •. Save 50% for a 3rd night stay.

Don’t forget to save the date for the Fall Mystery Weekend: November 14 – 16, 2025.