John Lennon stayed at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel with Yoko Ono from May 26 to June 2, 1969, while they held their second Bed-In for Peace. The hotel, now Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, officially identifies Suite 1742 as the location of the protest and the recording of Give Peace a Chance.
Celebrity Hotels classifies this as a verified stay with evidence grade A. The hotel supplies first-party suite confirmation, Historic Hotels Worldwide records the accommodation date span, and CBC/Radio Canada and TIME preserve recognizable, room-specific visual evidence and eyewitness context.
The short answer
Fairmont’s official history says John Lennon and Yoko Ono hosted their 1969 Bed-In for Peace and recorded Give Peace a Chance in Suite 1742. Its current accommodation page offers a John Lennon and Yoko Ono Suite and identifies it as the place where the Bed-In unfolded.
Historic Hotels Worldwide is explicit about accommodation: it says the couple stayed at the property between May 26 and June 2, 1969 and moved into Room 1742. Radio Canada International reports that they arrived on May 26 and booked four adjoining rooms, including 1742.
This combination proves more than presence at a press event. Lennon and Ono occupied hotel accommodation over a documented multi-day span.
Stay, protest and recording
The Bed-In was a peace protest conducted from the couple’s hotel bed while reporters, visitors and invited guests entered the rooms. It was therefore both an event and an accommodation period. The exact Celebrity Hotels relationship is a stay because the sources directly say the couple stayed and booked rooms.
The recording session is a separate fact within that stay. Fairmont’s history places the recording of Give Peace a Chance in Suite 1742. Radio Canada International dates the room recording to June 1 and describes the small recording setup and gathered participants.
Neither a song recording nor a press gathering would independently prove sleep. Here, the date-specific booking and stay records establish accommodation, while the event and recording evidence anchor the couple to the exact suite.
The May 26–June 2 date span
Historic Hotels Worldwide gives the hotel period as May 26 through June 2, 1969. Radio Canada International describes the protest as a week-long or seven-day Bed-In and records the May 26 arrival.
Celebrity Hotels preserves the published date span without translating it into an exact number of charged nights. Inclusive calendar-day counts, hotel-night counts and the duration of public protest activity are different measures. No reviewed source publishes a folio or checkout time.
The evidence also should not be merged with Lennon and Ono’s earlier 1969 Bed-In at the Hilton Amsterdam. The Montreal Queen Elizabeth and Amsterdam Hilton are separate hotels, cities and episodes.
What the photographs establish
Radio Canada International displays a CBC-credited photograph identifying Lennon and Ono in Room 1742 and another image from the recording. TIME published photographs by Stephen Sammons from the Queen Elizabeth Hotel suite and interviewed him about being present during the Bed-In and song preparation.
Those images provide recognizable visual evidence of Lennon in the room, but no photograph is copied onto this article. The visual records remain with their publishers and photographers.
Images prove the documented room activity, not the precise number of nights or every adjoining room used. The stay conclusion comes from the accommodation records, supported by the visual evidence.
Hotel name and property continuity
In 1969 the property was known as the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Historic Hotels Worldwide says it opened in 1958 and was renamed Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth after the Fairmont corporate reorganization in 2001.
The current Fairmont history, current suite page and historical account all point to the same hotel above Montreal Central Station. The stored Celebrity Hotels booking target uses Booking.com’s path for Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal.
This is not Hilton Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London or another Fairmont property. The former name and current brand are treated as one continuing Montreal hotel entity.
The modern suite caveat
Fairmont’s current page says the suite’s living room has been meticulously recreated to evoke the 1969 event. That wording is important: today’s bookable accommodation is an immersive historical interpretation, not proof that every furnishing and wall finish remains untouched.
The hotel still connects the current suite directly to the historic Bed-In location. Celebrity Hotels verifies the 1969 stay and Suite 1742 relationship while avoiding claims that all present amenities existed then.
Evidence verdict
Verified: John Lennon stayed at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal with Yoko Ono during the May 26–June 2, 1969 Bed-In for Peace.
Exact location: Fairmont and independent records identify Suite or Room 1742, with additional adjoining rooms reported by Radio Canada International.
Also verified: The Bed-In and the recording of Give Peace a Chance took place in the hotel suite.
Not verified: Exact checkout time, charged-night count, rate, payer, complete adjoining-room allocation and an entirely unchanged 1969 interior remain unspecified.
This result receives evidence grade A because Fairmont directly confirms Lennon and Ono’s use of Suite 1742, while date-specific accommodation records and recognizable historical images independently preserve the stay.