Humor

In my experience, the 'hotel' takes itself very seriously indeed, and if the lifetime ban had been left in place, I wouldn't have been surprised.

As a couple of weird bits of trivia....

The hotel was originally built on quite swampy land, and a huge number of gumwood pilings were driven into the ground to stabilize it. When they did a massive reno in the 80's. it was decided it would be prudent to check the remaining life of the gumwood. It is so incredibly well self-preserved that it was as good as the day it was installed.

The Humboldt wing on the N side of the hotel was a slightly later addition, being completed in 1922. Both being built entirely of brick, it was easy to marry the look of the two structures. The interesting part, at least to me, is that one of the bricklayers was Boris Karloff.