Popular Culture
- The music video for singer Sade's song King of Sorrow (from her Lovers Rock album) was filmed in and around the hotel by director Sophie Muller.
- The hotel served as a locale for one of the four stories that helped compose the storyline for the 2001 film 12 Horas directed by Puerto Rican director Raúl Marchand Sánchez.
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