Interesting Facts About Grand Hotel

• Built in 1887.

• 385 guest rooms with no two decorated the same.

• Breakfast and dinner are included daily.

• Guests 11 years and younger stay and eat free.

• At 660 feet, Grand Hotel's Front Porch is the world's longest.

• It takes 500,000 gallons of water to fill Grand Hotel's swimming pool, named for actress Esther Williams, who starred in the 1949 movie This Time for Keeps, filmed at Grand Hotel.

• Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer, was filmed at Grand Hotel in 1979. The Somewhere in Time fan club hosts a weekend each October at Grand Hotel.

• The Mackinac Bridge, visible from the hotel, was opened in 1957 and joins Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. At 8,614 feet, it is the longest suspension bridge in North America.

• Five U.S. Presidents have visited Grand Hotel: Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

• More than 50,000 Grand Pecan Balls, the hotel's most popular dessert, are served each season.

• The Grand Hotel's Front Porch flowers include 2,500 geraniums in 260 planting boxes.

• One ton of bulbs are planted in the fall, including 25,000 tulips and 15,000 daffodils.

• More than 125,000 bedding plants (annuals) are used to create the gardens throughout the hotel grounds.