[3][4] Other famous guests have included Led Zeppelin (who were banned from the hotel after their second infamous stay there),[2] the Rolling Stones,[1] Frank Zappa,[1] Kurt Cobain, Black Sabbath and U.S. president Bill Clinton.

[1] The Edgewater is also a filming location in the 1992 season 3 episode "It Happened in Juneau" of Northern Exposure.

The hotel was originally intended to open in time for the Century 21 Exposition, Seattle's 1962 world's fair.

As of 2008, it pays the state a rent of $330,000 a year or 3 percent of the hotel's gross receipts, whichever is greater.

The lease requires the hotel owners to spend a minimum of $2 million on maintenance and refurbishing every five years.