Famous Guests
As well as Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Clara Butt, other famous guests of the hotel have included: munitions heiress Bertha Krupp, who donated a Bechstein grand piano to the hotel; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, for whom the Blue Mountains were the inspiration for The Lost World; and more recently, Russell Crowe who was asked to remove his baseball cap while dining in the Great Dining Hall in 1994.
Australia's first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton - he had retired from politics and was now a justice of the High Court - died of a heart attack while staying at the hotel in 1920.
Read more about this topic: Hydro Majestic Hotel
Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or guests:
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“When the guests have left, the host is at peace.”
—Chinese proverb.