GRAND HOTEL FACTS
Was built in 1887.
At 660 feet (more than 2 football fields), Grand Hotel's front porch is the world's longest porch.
385 guest rooms with no two decorated the same.
More than 130,000 overnight guests stay at Grand Hotel each season.
Grand Hotel's kitchen staff of more than 100 people prepares and serves as many as 4,000 meals per day.
During the 2002 season, Grand Hotel used 83,000 pounds of prime rib, 23,5000 pounds of ham, 83,500 pounds of potatoes, 23,000 pounds of carrots, 14,000 pounds of strawberries and 6,500 pounds of pecans.
More than 50,000 Grand Pecan Balls, the hotel's most popular dessert, are served each season.
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.
The movie, Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer, was filmed on Mackinac Island and was given permission to use automobiles on the island.
Five U.S. Presidents have visited Grand Hotel: Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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. |
