Monthly Archives: May, 2010
The water is warm, come on in!
Today’s Guest Blogger is our President RDMIII (Dan to most). This is the first time in my 21 year career as Grand Hotel President that the Pool is open and the water temperature is at 80 degrees on the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend. Not only is the water worm in its place but the snow [...]
Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day Weekend, the first official summer holiday weekend. What better way is there to kick off the summer than with an extra long weekend away from work. Although, those of us in the Hospitality Business don’t pay so much attention to these long “weekends”. We just know it is time to see old friends who have been coming to Grand Hotel for years and [...]
GH Children’s Program
Today’s Grand Hotel blogger is Nichole LeFevre, Children’s Program Director. This is Nichole’s first season with Grand Hotel. We are happy to welcome her and look forward seeing what fun she has instore for our young guests this summer. My typical workday is a little different than most here at Grand Hotel. The people that I interact with on a [...]
Two weeks into the 2010 season…
What a whirlwind it has been! The first two weeks of our 2010 season have been non-stop with one great group after another. We started off with the Rotary group here for 3 fun filled days. Moved on to Celebrate Your Marriage, with nearly sold out crowds of happy couples for 2 days, and then [...]
Welcome Win-Some Women
Over the next 3 days we will do 3 almost total house turn arounds. Nearly all 385 rooms in and 385 rooms out each day. The Win-Some Women group comes each Spring and Fall with nearly 3,000 women coming and going over the 3 day period. They will take over the entire hotel. Men’s restrooms [...]
Grand Tennis
Today’s blog is from Grand Hotel’s USPTA Tennis Pro Jerry Murray. Jerry has returned for a fourth season with Grand Hotel and we are very pleased to have him back. I am excited to be back at Grand Hotel for my fourth season as Grand Hotel Tennis Pro. Our 4 Har-Tru courts are set and [...]
Formal Dining, a Grand Experience
Today’s blog is by Ms. Julie Luckey our Director of Group Tours. Julie spends the season organizing the hundreds of tours and groups that come to the hotel. She is responsible for making sure that everyone from the tour/group makes it from the mainland to the island and to the hotel, that they are entertained [...]
This week Grand Hotel has opened its doors for the 124th season. Mr. R.D. Musser, Jr. purchased the hotel in 1979, and through the years he, as well as the Musser Family, has enjoyed meeting many guests personally. The Musser Family, along with the entire Grand Hotel staff, is looking forward to serving our longtime friends and making many new friends in 2010. The hotel opened “officially” [...]
One day until Grand Opening!
It was a busy week for Grand Hotel last week. Not only were we featured in Midwest Living Magazine’s “ Best of the Midwest” our president, Dan Musser III, was featured in an article on the front page of the Detroit Free Press and in a wonderful video by Eric Seals , also of the Free Press. We were [...]
