Despite rumours of ghosts of the former prison haunting the place, the hotel opened without incident.

During the events of 5 February 1975, known as the Limazo, the hotel, as well as the neighbouring Lima Tower of the Civic Centre, were damaged by a fire amid riots in their immediate surroundings.

On August 19, 1990, José Leandro Reaño Cabrejos, an employee of the Banco de Comercio threw the lifeless body of his lover, Marita Soledad Alpaca Raa, from his room's window at the hotel's nineteenth floor after a heated argument.

Reaño immediately fled to Rio de Janeiro following the murder, having paid local policemen to tamper with the investigation, but returned and in 1995 was sentenced to seven years in prison, released in 1998 after paying S/.

[7][8][9] On 30 May 2016, Natalie Paola Rikeros, a 17-year-old Venezuelan girl travelling with a Hare Krishna group, committed suicide by jumping from the hotel's rooftop after sneaking into the building's stairwell.