became the latest A-list celebrity to check into Crown Sydney’s Presidential Villa this weekend while visiting Australia for the world premiere of . notably spent a week in the same $38,000-a-night suite earlier this year when she in February. The luxury hotel in Barangaroo has become the go-to spot for any global superstar visiting Sydney thanks to its high-level security measures and guaranteed privacy.
Yet whereas and were able to avoid all public areas - arriving and exiting via a security-patrolled underground carpark and taking a private elevator directly up to their room – Ariana’s stay was very different. can reveal the actress and singer declined the extreme measures available to go unseen so she could interact with fans who had camped outside. “Ariana and her team were advised against using the public entrances as it could be a security issue, but she insisted so she could thank her fans for coming to see her,” a hotel source tells us.
“After checking in on Saturday she even went for a walk around the lobby and along Barangaroo where she stopped to take selfies with anyone who stopped her.” Ariana also made sure to meet plenty of fans on Sunday when she attended the premiere at the State Theatre alongside her co-stars Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode and Ethan Slater. One encounter has since gone viral on TikTok and racked up over six million views after a fan, who had camped outside the theatre since 8pm the night before, as.