Legends Hotel and Resort
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Legends Hotel and Resort is located in Vernon Township in Sussex County, New Jersey. In the 1970s, Hugh Hefner built it as the Great Gorge Playboy Club. The Playboy Club was closed in the late 1980s and sold and turned into Seasons Hotel. Later, Seasons was sold again and turned into its current incarnation, as the Legends Resort and Country Club.
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[edit] The hotel
Legends, as it is called in Vernon, has over 700 guest rooms. The hotel has a cabaret and a huge ballroom. There is also a restaurant, indoor pool and jacuzzis. Legends also has a fitness center which was recently renovated. There is also an Olympic-sized swimming pool located outside. There are many reports of the resort to be haunted.
Most of the rooms have been renovated at least once, but some are still set up as originally constructed in 1970s decor. Overall, however, the facility has fallen into such poor condition that in 2005 RCI removed it from its trading system.
[edit] Renovation
Two companies have jointly put together a proposal to develop the surrounding land and renovate the hotel. The Vernon Township Council rejected their proposal for the construction of townhomes on the surrounding property until renovations of the hotel, estimated to cost $25 million, are completed.
[edit] In popular culture
Portions of the 1989 comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, were set and filmed at the hotel, referred to simply as the "Great Gorge Resort" in the movie.
