Have you ever stayed at the same hotel as a celebrity?

[DisneylandDarling]

Lol, I came to this thread to say almost exactly this -- and add that Jim Gaffigan (comedian) has a bit about staying at La Quinta

To be totally honest, I don't think we've ever actually stayed at La Quinta before! But I'm sure we've never stayed at a hotel uppity enough that a celebrity would grace their presence in! lol

 

[momto2girls]

When we were in Rome two years ago, we stayed in the same hotel as the President of Mexico. He and his daughter were there with a bunch of security. The hotel was pretty small and it was interesting to see armed guards surrounding the hotel and posted in our hallway.

 

[tvguy]

Hotel, no. Cruise ship, yes.
Annie Potts was allegedly on our Disney cruise New Years week 2003-04, but I never saw her.

And when DW and I first get married we did 2 cruises on NCL's Norway. Their big thing in those days (1983 and 1984) was to have "name" entertainers on board, and a sports star. They did their shows or lecture, and were on the ship the entire week hanging out with the passengers.
Between those 2 cruises we hung out with Norm Crosby, Jack Jones (and his dad), the mime team of Shields and Yarnell, the Fifth Dimension (played basketball against them on the ship) NFL Player Fred Nixon who was playing for the Packers, and Basketball player Moses Malone. Lorene Yarnell pulled Malone out of the audience and literally climbed him on stage. He was 6'10", she was about 5' tall.

 

[Ciao Mickey]

Whether that be at the same time or different time

To my knowledge I personally haven't

Yes.

 

[bdcp]

In 2000 we were on DH's company's annual trip. We stayed in a winery in GA that Paul Newman was part owner of. It was rumored he was there the same weekend we were and a few people we knew saw him.

I don't see celebrities as that big of a deal. Most are just very lucky to be where they are in life and are no better than anyone else.

 

[georgina]

Was sitting on a beach in St Lucia last week when a huge catamaran pulled up and only 2 people got off. Turns out it was a British soccer star and his pop star girlfriend whom I had never heard of (Perrie Edwards?) They didn't stay the whole day as the boat came back for them later, but that was my brush with celebrity.

 

[mmouse37]

We were in Nashville earlier this month for 5 days and stayed at the Westin Downtown. Right across the street is the convention center where they were having a Walking Dead fan event.

One morning we saw many of the stars in the hotel lobby.....in fact Scott Wilson (Hershel Green) was there who was also in the series the OA on Netflix (Abel Johnson) which was filmed at our house (our house was used for the main character Prairie Johnson and her parents). We spoke with him when he was in our house for filming last year and went up to him in the lobby of the Westin and he remembered us. Ron Perlman was also with him.

MJ

 

[bushdianee]

I only remember parts of this as it happened 53 years ago when I was only 6. My grandparents took me to Toronto for the weekend and we stayed at the same hotel as the Beatles. I remember looking out of the window and seeing and hearing all of the screaming fans. According to what my grandma kept telling me over the years, While my grandpa was checking us out my grandma and I were sitting on a couch in the lobby when this tall (to a 6yo) thin young man with a British accent came and sat down with us. I was shy and climbed up on my grandma's lap. After he left someone came up to us and said that the guy was George Harrison. As an adult I'm not sure it was actually him but my grandma was convinced. For some reason I think the name of the hotel was The King Edward Hotel. I don't know if I actually remember the name or made it up in my mind!

 

[lorimay]

On our honeymoon in 1987, we stayed at The Hilton Hawaiian Village. It was the week of the pro-bowl and all the players were staying there too.
My husband loved it. We have a picture of him with Walter Payton. We also saw Howie Long walking on the beach with his boys.
My husband was asked by a few people what team he was on, LOL. I kept saying "I wish".

 

[tinatark]

DH and I exited the Tower Suites Elevator at the Wynn Las Vegas a few years ago and saw a swarm of security... surrounding Usher heading up to his room. Those elevators only lead to guest rooms and we were staying there so I suppose the answer is yes!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

On our honeymoon in 1987, we stayed at The Hilton Hawaiian Village. It was the week of the pro-bowl and all the players were staying there too.
My husband loved it. We have a picture of him with Walter Payton. We also saw Howie Long walking on the beach with his boys.
My husband was asked by a few people what team he was on, LOL. I kept saying "I wish".

WOW!!

 

[moon]

I only remember parts of this as it happened 53 years ago when I was only 6. My grandparents took me to Toronto for the weekend and we stayed at the same hotel as the Beatles. I remember looking out of the window and seeing and hearing all of the screaming fans. According to what my grandma kept telling me over the years, While my grandpa was checking us out my grandma and I were sitting on a couch in the lobby when this tall (to a 6yo) thin young man with a British accent came and sat down with us. I was shy and climbed up on my grandma's lap. After he left someone came up to us and said that the guy was George Harrison. As an adult I'm not sure it was actually him but my grandma was convinced. For some reason I think the name of the hotel was The King Edward Hotel. I don't know if I actually remember the name or made it up in my mind!

That's so cool!

 

[E&Cmom]

Back in 2000 I was on the same cruise ship(Princess) as Alan Thicke. I had seen him a few times and he looked familiar but finally figured out who he was when we were waiting in the disembarking area.

Never seen anyone famous at a hotel but sure thst some have stayed there when we weren't there. My coworker went to Aulani a few month before me and Brittney Spears was there with her kids.

 

[Squirlz]

My Father and I were taking the elevator down in the Watergate hotel. Elevator stopped and Art Garfunkel got on.

 

[kimmar067]

....yes, a couple of times. We were at the Dorado Beach hotel in Puerto Rico, when Susan Sarandon and her kids landed on a helicopter landing pad there. We were also staying at the Condado Plaza where Larry Holmes [and his agent] happened to be staying. He was sitting at an outside table, waiting for his limo to take him to the airport - we politely asked him for his autograph. What a gracious guy! All the kids started coming out of the pool and he obliged by taking photos with all of them and signing autographs....

 

[antmaril]

In 2000, we were staying at the Marriott Marquis in NYC. Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond") had been on "The Tonight Show" with David Letterman the night before we saw him in the elevator. My late husband didn't recognize him immediately, but when RR spoke to the person with him, my husband recognized his voice immediately. I knew it was him, but, of course, I played it cool and pretended I didn't know who he was.

 

[TavieP]

When I was 15 (1995), my family took a trip to Disneyland Paris (also taking my two best friends along.)

We stayed at Sequoia Lodge but had dinner reservations at the Disneyland Hotel Paris, where it turned out Michael Jackson was also staying. My sister, friends and I joined the crowd chanting, calling, and singing outside the window (which looked down into the park) until a guard asked us (and others!) to leave. ("I can't believe we're getting thrown out of Disneyland Paris!" we said. "Gently escorted out," replied the guard, to our delight.)

Getting into the hotel afterward to meet our parents for dinner turned out to be tricky - we had to pull out all our schoolgirl French and basically bat our eyelashes at the guards at the hotel, who finally let us in to go to dinner. We passed a crowd in the lobby - paparazzi this time, shouting up, and lo and behold, as we passed through we saw THE MAN HIMSELF walking through escorted by an entourage, wearing dark sunglasses and a surgical mask.

We joined our parents without further incident but it was an unforgettable experience.

 

[loves to dive]

Unfortunately, yes. One year for our anniversary we stayed in the Four Seasons in Atlanta, which is a very nice hotel. Janet Jackson was giving her husband at the time a black and white birthday party and wouldn't you know it, half her guests were on the same floor as us. It was a very loud restless two nights and you couldn't go freely anywhere in the hotel because of her security.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

The chance that I have not stayed in any hotel where a celebrity at some point has also stayed is remote. That said, I don't really check up on where celebrities stay so I don't really know of any.

 

[rastahomie]

In the mid-90's I worked at the Holiday Inn in Joplin, Missouri, which was the "nicest" hotel in that one-horse town.* Being a city of about 50,000, it didn't exactly attract top-notch entertainers into town. A few C-listers came by every now and then, and those who didn't stay in their tour buses stayed at the Holiday Inn.

Gallagher (comedian whose best days were behind him even in the mid-90's) was a total jerk; he was belittling the security guy for some perceived flaw in his room assignment (as if it was the security guy's fault). I was also working the night Twila Paris (Contemporary Christian Music singer who was of middling popularity at the time) stayed there, but I didn't see her.

*At one time, Joplin's Holiday Inn was considered one of the nicest hotels in southwest Missouri, on par with the better places in Springfield. By the time I worked there it was no better or no worse than any other Holiday Inn anywhere else, but for a few decades it was the talk of the town. It was partially built with Mickey Mantle's money: he was from a town not far away and had played Legion ball in Joplin for a few seasons. When he retired from baseball he invested in real estate and was at least a partial investor in the Holiday Inn.