A San Francisco legend is in the middle of a competition to secure bragging rights as the best hotel for the holidays.

“It does get stale, but the more stale the gingerbread, the more hard the bricks and more stable the house,” Emma Curtis, the hotel’s culinary and dining manager, told SFGATE in 2019. “We don’t encourage it, but we also see people eating it. The adults are the worst.”

Michelle Heston, spokesperson for the Fairmont, said they’re calling upon the local community to cast their votes in favor of the Fairmont. It has yet to win the award, but the hotel has won over VIP guests from President Biden to a certain mysterious man in a red and white suit.

“Since the hotel first built out our first giant gingerbread house over a decade ago, Santa and Mrs. Claus have called the Fairmont San Francisco their home away from the North Pole,” Heston told SFGATE in an email.