Yosemite Hotel The Basis Of Kubrick's The Shining

IMDB has an interesting note on the Ahwanee Hotel in Yosemite -- it seems that Kubrick's version of The Shining designed the hotels lounge on the Ahwanee Hotel's lounge.  IMDB explains,

"Indeed, the chandeliers, windows and fireplace are nearly identical, so much so that people entering the Ahwahnee often ask if it's the Shining hotel."  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia#p=631;t=1038

This is only relevant because the Ahwanee is popping up in recent news reports.  People magazine speculates that the newly married Prince William and his bride Kate might stay at the Ahwahnee hotel if they visit Yosemite.

The People article is here: http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20395222_20499231,00.html

People makes the following case for the Ahwanee:

"Isn't it right that the posh duo would be staying somewhere fit for a queen – literally. The Mary Curry Tresidder Suite at Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel became known as The Queen's Room after a 1983 visit by William's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. The romantic suite features a four-poster canopy bed, to say nothing of a large bathroom with craftsmen-designed cabinets and bidet. Plus, there is a Queen's table in the hotel's dining room!"

People has more than just their own speculating to drive the point home.  Note this quote: "An employee at the picturesque hotel predicts this is where the happy couple would bunk if they journey to the area. . ."  Some unnamed employee think the Prince and Princess would stay there!  Not a reservation, just some persons guess -- given credibility because they work there.  But they don't want to put their name on the story.  This is starting to look real official, People!

Once building a case for William and Kate to stay at the hotel, People then (unknowingly) explain exactly why the couple might not want to stay at the Ahwanee: It seems the daughter of a park concessionaire died in the hotel on Halloween night, 1970.  Couple that with the place looking like the interior of Kubrick's version of The Shining, and I don't know that you have a home run! 

The article notes,

"The hotel's interior also inspired the set for the deserted mountain house in the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film based on the Stephen King novel, The Shining."

I wonder if William and Kate have seen The Shining.  Would they walk in, look around and ask each other, "Why does this look so familiar?"  Hard to picture prince William's head popping through a door he just axed and announcing, "Heeeeee-re's Willie!"

Hold on, let me connect all the dots.  You followed that, right?  The People article is saying that William and Kate MIGHT (based on an employee's speculation) stay at a hotel that was not used in Kubrick's The Shining, but was the inspiration for the lobby.