Bleak House, Broadstairs current owners opened the house as a wedding venue and guest house. Broadstairs, like many coastal places around England, had something of a reputation for smuggling in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The current establishment has a Smugglers Museum below deck. It is still possible to visit one of Charles Dickens' study rooms there. Bleak House, Broadstairs Bleak House (originally known as Fort House) is a prominent house on the cliff overlooking the North Foreland and Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent. It was built around 1801 and then substantially extended, doubling in size, in 1901. The house was the
9: The Last Resort in the closing credits as ""9 - The Last Resort"", leading most people to refer to the game as ""9: The Last Resort"". The title is always written as '9', the numeral, not the word. The name ""9"" refers to the nine muses which inhabit the resort (from Greek mythology). The muses are represented by various characters in the game. The name ""The Last Resort"" is the title of the building in which the game is set. It is a luxury hotel which belonged to a man called Thurston Last, but is also a pun on the term "last resort".