Singer and actor
1935
Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
American
$189
Hotel Fort Des Moines feels like a polished time capsule: restored classical details, a hushed library and handsome rooms within the revived 1919 landmark. Elvis Presley slept here before taking the stage, and the hotel's pink penthouse toilet later became a wonderfully eccentric relic of the King's passage through Iowa.
$749
Rosewood Hotel Georgia revives Vancouver's 1927 grande dame with Art Deco poise and contemporary polish. Laurence Olivier was among the screen legends who slept here, sharing its storied guestbook with Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.
$655
Fairmont Olympic brings palatial Italian Renaissance style to the heart of Seattle, with soaring public rooms and the quiet assurance of a century-old grand hotel. Elvis Presley and his band checked into the Olympic during his feverish 1957 Pacific Northwest tour, leaving a touch of rock-and-roll electricity inside all that gilded calm.
Beverly Wilshire sits at Rodeo Drive with the grand confidence of a Hollywood institution. During his 1970s separation from Yoko Ono, John Lennon made the hotel his Los Angeles home for months, following in the footsteps of his musical hero Elvis Presley and giving the polished address a distinctly rock-and-roll chapter.