You’ve seen them in the movies. Luxury hotels that seem so incredible they must be made up sets with amazing computer generated graphics. Often they’re not. In fact, many hotel and resort locations you see in the movies are, indeed, real places.
Test you movie/hotel knowledge by picking out these seven locations. Just click on the not so well designed green and yellow button to get started.
Movie Hotels
For me, it’s a bit of a proud obsession to try and name a movie setting before the sub-title gives it away of the characters mention where they are. I’m sure it’s the same with most that there’s a special feeling when that hotel, restaurant or attraction shown in a movie is somewhere you’ve actually been to.
Things aren’t always as they seem, though. There are a couple of these seven that are not quite the same in the real world as they are on the big screen. My first experience with this was when visiting Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. This is a beautiful town and supposedly the setting for the Bill Murray movie ‘Groundhog Day’.
I strolled through the centre of town, trying so hard to visualize the scenes from the movie. I went out to Gobbler’s Knob – which in the movie is the centre of town – and started to realize something just wasn’t right.
When I got home from the trip and looked it up, it was a great disappointment that the movie was actually filmed in Woodstock, Illinois.
Living near Toronto, Ontario, I really shouldn’t have been that surprised. Toronto is often the setting for U.S. cities in movies. It’s much cheaper and safer to film there so if you look close, often you can see lesser known Toronto landmarks in the American cities of the movie world.
You might also like to try your hand at identifying these cool places in Ontario, Canada: Ontario Travel Trivia
A hotel not included here that I badly want to stay in is the Book-Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit. I have to believe the hotel is included in movies over the past century. The hotel is iconic of the urban decay that took over downtown Detroit and was abandoned for decades. However, when the decision had to be made to demolish or renovate, investors swooped in. The hotel has been fully renovated and is now one of the most expensive stays in the Detroit area. The history is incredible and I would assume there would be some ghosts (from before and after the hotel closed down…).
