Guests sit on antique sofas, enjoy viewing fine art and often sleep on antique beds. Each of the 343 bedrooms has an individual decor. Hotel interior decorator Carleton Varney has created an Abraham Lincoln Room, Lord and Lady Astor Suites, Napoleon and Josephine Suites and the China Suite. There are shops, a beauty salon with masseuse, tennis and gardens to explore. A gallery of changing art displays rare works.
Music begins when the orchestra plays background tunes for the lavish noon buffet.
Music progresses as background to high tea in the Parlor, strains of a harp at cocktail hour, live dinner music, the Grand Hotel dance orchestra in the Terrace Room and musicians starring in various other parts of the hotel. For the dinner hour, guests change from daytime casual wear to more formal attire for the traditional five-course evening feasts, with men in coats and ties and ladies in dresses or dress pants. Dining is a main attraction. Wide windows open to the front porch and the blue waters beyond. The popular Lake Superior whitefish is always on the menu, always fresh and tasty.