The Vannah

"HEYYY! COME BACK! COME-Ahh, he ain't comin' back."

- Coach "Shit! This place's burning up fast!"

- Nick

The Vannah is the setting for the first and beginning of the second chapters of the Dead Center campaign in Left 4 Dead 2.

History
It is an eight-story hotel in Savannah, Georgia where guests and tourists were able to spend the night in the city and was also used as a convention center where guests could use the banquet halls for special occasions. When the infection broke out, CEDA converted the once-luxurious hotel into an evacuation center where residents and guests of Savannah took refuge and waited to be evacuated by CEDA.

Current Status
Uncontrolled fires exist on various floors of the hotel however the most serious blaze is raging on the ground floor level where the hotel kitchens are located. It is logical to assume that this fire began in the kitchen due to an unattended cooking stove or deep-fat fryer. The combustion process associated with these fires is unusual since they burn with a complete absence of smoke. With no operating water sprinkler system, it is likely that the fires will ultimately consume all of the hotel.

When it was a CEDA evac site, the hotel was set up as a crisis planning center (a CEDA "war room" exists on the top floor) combined with facilities to process and screen civilians for the green flu virus (e.g. CEDA decontamination trailers can be seen outside in the hotel parking lot).

The media and news took a great interest in the outbreak in the Savannah region; a factor which explains how Rochelle found herself in that city.

At the start of the chapter, the four Survivors had evidently learned that The Vannah was one of two nearby evac centers (the other being the Liberty Mall) and individually arrived there just minutes too late to catch the last helicopter flight from the hotel roof. Since they are initially unarmed, they presumably reached the roof directly from the ground floor by elevator after a perfunctory CEDA screening which, consistent with CEDA policy, included relieving them of any firearms in their possession. However by the time the Survivors get to roof, the remaining CEDA staff and evacuees have "turned", fires have broken out and they find themselves thrown back on their own resources. Accordingly, they agree amongst themselves to head over to the Liberty Mall in hope finding help and rescue. In this regard, the Survivors maintain full faith in CEDA at this time and it is only during their experiences in the Mall that this confidence ebbs away to be replaced by trust in their mutual support and resourcefulness. However, unlike the four original Survivors in Left 4 Dead, this group maintain complete faith in "the military" right through to the grand finale in New Orleans. In all respects therefore The Vannah hotel is significant as the setting for many defining moments in the Left 4 Dead 2 storyline.

Although never hinted at in the game, The Sacrifice DLC comic provides circumstantial evidence that Nick, Rochelle, Coach and Ellis are "immune carriers". In which case their presence at The Vannah could help explain why this evac center became overrun.