During its history, the hotel welcomed a number of renowned artists and politicians, among others István Széchenyi, Ferenc Deák. Miklós Wesselényi, Ferenc Kossuth, Zsigmond Móricz, Béla Miklós, István Vásáry, Imre Nagy, Magda Szabó, Bruno Kreisky and Helmut Kohl. It is also recorded, that General Józef Bem put up in the hotel during the Hungarian War of Independence in 1848–49.