A few months after being established, the hotel moved a few doors down to its current location.

[2] During a major cholera epidemic in Pamplona in the summer of 1885, the hotel was the only establishment that dared to stay open.

Miguel died of cholera during the epidemic, after which time Teresa continued to operate the business.

[2] The hotel was popularized by having many notable guests, including Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, George Gissing or Pablo Sarasate.

In the studies about Hemingway, author of The Sun Also Rises, and in popular lore it is sometimes mistakenly identified as the model for the novel's Hotel Montoya.