we could have another thread - famous people you met in a hotel.

I once stopped in a hotel in Stratford and Seamus Heaney was there eating his breakfast - in a seat overlooking the river. I nearly went up to him and said, don't worry Seamus - the frogs can't get you here! (reference to his poem, Death of a Naturalist).

In the Intercontinental Dusseldorf, I saw Randy Newman going up in the lift.