by Scott Laird
Last updated: 5:00 AM ET, Fri April 19, 2019
Hollywood has always had a love affair with noteworthy hotels, and film buffs often include real-world film sets in their travel plans. Tourists still traipse through the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel because of its significant role in the film Pretty Woman, although the most famous lobby and penthouse suite scenes were filmed on specially built sets.
The Park Hyatt Tokyo (Lost in Translation), Miami's Fontainebleau (Goldfinger) and Paris's Le Bristol (Midnight in Paris) are also on the list of popular hotels with famous films shot on location.
Many hotels that are well known as film sets play up their own celebrity by offering themed packages. Some may be for a limited time, while others may endure as a lasting attraction. Many hotels may discontinue packages as the films they're known for begin to fade into the annals of silver screen history while others have the envious position of simply having too many famous films shot on their premises that it's impossible to choose.
In our first example, it's a milestone anniversary of the cult comedy classic Troop Beverly Hills that inspires a memorable package in Southern California's most famously posh zip code.
Troop Beverly Hills at The Beverly Hills Hotel
One of the most memorable moments of the 1989 scouting spoof has Shelley Long's character installing her Wilderness Girl troop in a bungalow at the Dorchester Collection's Beverly Hills Hotel, where they roast hot dogs and marshmallows around the fireplace and tell ghost stories about mansion hauntings and beauty shop disasters, perhaps hinting that childhood fun is pretty universal, whether one lives in Beverly Hills or Culver City.
The package includes accommodations for two in a Garden Suite, a $100 breakfast credit, a 60-minute signature massage each, Troop Beverly Hills welcome amenity, pink sleep masks, signature robes and s'mores to enjoy during the film. Package rates start at $2,550 per night.
Dirty Dancing at Mountain Lake Lodge
While the film depicts a family resort in The Catskills in the early 1960s, the affectionately named "Borscht Belt" was actually in its waning years, with nearly every such resort closed permanently by the time principal shooting began in the mid-1980s. The movie was actually filmed in two locations standing in for the Catskills: Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake Lodge, in Mountain Lake, Virginia.
Mountain Lake Lodge stood in for the fictional Kellerman's Resort, and they offer the Kellerman's Backstage Pass Package, which includes two nights lodging, a self-guided tour map, $50 gift shop credit, Dirty Dancing DVD, Dirty Dancing Themed Scavenger Hunt and $100 dining credit in the Harvest Restaurant.
For true devotees, the lodge also hosts four Dirty Dancing themed weekends each year
Twin Peaks at Salish Lodge & Spa
Fans of supernatural television thriller Twin Peaks who wish to spend the night at the Great Northern Hotel, can, in fact, visit. Salish Lodge & Spa in Snoqualmie, Washington, about a half hour from Seattle, is the stand-in for the fictional Great Northern, but they offer fans a Great Northern Escape Package.
The package includes a one-night stay, two Dale Cooper cocktails, a copy of the hotel's Twin Peaks film location map (most of the show's exteriors were filmed in Snoqualmie), Cherry Pie and Damn Good Coffee for two in The Attic and a $15 Amazon gift card to stream Season One before, during, or after the stay.
Also famous at the hotel is the overabundant breakfast with Honey from Heaven™. A longstanding tradition at the lodge, honey from the hotel's own on-site apiary is drizzled onto fluffy biscuits from high above the table.
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