Lined in beige moire wallpaper and covered with wine-colored carpeting, the full three-room suite includes two bedrooms (one with twin beds, another with a comfortable king), three black-marble bathrooms, a dining room with a polished wooden table and eight upholstered wine-and-gold chairs, a living room with green jacquard couch that folds into a sofa, and several gold-rimmed mirrors. Large windows overlook Montreal's Marie the Queen of the World basilica, its statues and dome turned a glorious verdigris.
The package, good Friday and Saturday nights, includes accommodations in the John Lennon suite, a souvenir photo of the 1969 event, breakfast for two, a bottle of sparkling wine, and a welcome gift.
Commemorating the bed-in, framed pictures of the event by Ted Church hand in the suite's foyer. In the living room there's a color photo of John and Yoko surrounded by eight gold 45s of their Apple-label recording and the song lyrics.
Many of the hotel's bellmen have been with the Queen E for decades, and will share their memories of the groupies and the sweet smell of marijuana that pervaded the hallway that week more than thirty years ago.
And yes, they'll tell you, still every year on December 8, the day John Lennon was murdered, two dozen roses, half red and half white, are left by the door of the suite.
No one has ever been able to determine who sent them — or seen how they get there.
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