If walls of some rooms could talk, what a story would be told…There are just some of hotel rooms which were witness for cases which wrote the history. Even if the room was there to witness the death of Janis Joplin from OD, or killing Nancy by Sid Vicious or any other story which we don’t know for sure, but barely from media gossip and guessing, these rooms are now here available to everyone to come and see them and be part of history. Here are some of them you should check out.

ROOM 203- BILLIE HOILDAY

On January 22, 1949, federal narcotics agents raided jazz singer Billie Holiday’s room. Holiday had recently served 10 months in jail for a drug bust and was arrested again, this time for possession of opium. The case went to trial but she was acquitted. Today this room in Hotel Mark Twain, San Francisco, California carries this famous jazz singers name and the reception walls are romantically covered with here photographs. For this nostalgic jazz over night accommodation would be approximately 200$…opium is not included, and it would be better not to be carried.

ROOM 16- OSCAR WILDE

“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go,” Oscar Wilde said in this hotel room where he spent his last days before his death in 1900. Name of this hotel where the war between wallpapers and the famous writer happened is L’ Hotel, Paris, France. Wilde was flat broke while he was staying in this hotel, as you will see from the letters on the wall asking Wilde to pay his bill. From that time-now, the hotel has get on and now is a serious hotel with 5 stars, where your one day war with wallpapers will cost you about 1000$.

ROOMS 1738, 1740, 1742- YOKO ONO & JOHN LENNON

These two pacifists decided to give peace a chance in 1969, protesting the Vietnam war by lying in bed for one week in the hotel Queen Elisabeth in Montreal, Canada. In front of hotel where they stayed was filed with journalists, fans and people who just wanted to see what’s going on. This lying in bed fruited into something good; they recorded the anti-war song Give peace a chance. For every other who after them wanted to rent that part of rock history, place of peace and freedom today would cost not more than 500$.

ROOM 217- STEPHEN KING

I am sure that most of you has watched “The shining” with jack Nicholson or even read Stephen Kings book. Maybe you have already known that Stanly Hotel in Colorado was the inspiration for this book. Stephen King stayed with his wife in this hotel in room 217, and that ambient was enough for this cult writer to make The Shining. Parts of sets for the TV show were taken in this hotel. Those episodes, as well as the movie are being slide on TV screens in all of the rooms every day.

ROOM 105- JANIS JOPLIN

American singer Janis Joplin, 27 the white queen of blues, was founded dead on October the 4th, 1970 in Hotel Landmark. Even though this singer was on her peek of fame, she was using drugs and alcohol, which probably was the reason for her depression and sadness. On her least concert August 12th 1970, with the voice of despair she shouted to the public: “I’m a star and no one wants to have sex with me!” Janis was lots of time compared with guitarist Jimmy Hendrix, with whom she had sexual relationship (they were caught in a bathroom), he also died when he was 27 from drug overdose. She was in relationship with Jim Morison, who also died when he was 27.

ROOM 100- SID VICIOUS

Sid Vicious, punk superstar and former bass player for the infamous British band, the Sex Pistols was charged with second-degree homicide in the death of Nancy Spungen. (In New York first-degree homicide is reserved for the killings of police and court officers in the line of duty.) They were staying in Hotel Chelsea, New York. Her body was found in the very hotel, room number 100. She was lying in bathroom, only in her panties and her bra soaking with blood from the wound made by knife in her abdomen. He was never convicted, Sid died one year later from overdose when he was 21.

There are even more of these fantastic rooms all over the world, to whom celebrities gave a special touch and where we can now go and pretend for a while that we are something else. I have chosen only few of them to present to you. You can have your pick and go where ever you want, but sure do ask if there is some good story about that hotel or even the room you’re about to take. If you believe in faith, there could be something…