Give peace a chance at John and Yoko’s bed-in venue in Montreal

If you want to make history John and Yoko style, you can fly to Montreal and rent the hotel suite where the couple held their bed-in 40 years ago to protest the Vietnam War.

The room is No. 1742 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel and goes for $599 per night (available from March 1 through June 21).

This is the same room where John Lennon wrote and instantly recorded “Give Peace a Chance.” The Imagine Package, as the hotel calls it, includes a one-night stay, a CD featuring the song, a copy of the lyrics and, of course, breakfast in bed — or at the hotel’s restaurant.

The package is good for other rooms at the hotel starting at $199.

After breakfast, swing by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for a free exhibit “Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John and Yoko,” which runs April 2 to June 21.

– Mary Forgione, L.A. Times staff writer

[Photos: (top) John and Yoko protest the Vietnam War four decades ago. Frank Barratt/Getty Images; (bottom) John and Yoko's suite nowadays at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, courtesy of the hotel.]

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