“Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton , Talking in our beds for a week, The newspapers said, Say what you doing in bed? I said, were only trying to get us some peace… ”
I was invited a competition the Cultural Heritage & Art to contribute by Amsterdam Marketing, Hilton Amsterdam and ARTZUID in 2018 which I was ended up winning and the price was a overnight stay in the room 702 so called, John & Yoko honeymoon suite.
Two years before the Beatles disbanded, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began public protests against the Vietnam War. Lennon and Ono were eventually married on March 20th, 1969 at the Gibraltar registry office. On 25th March 1969, they staged Bed-In for Peace at the Hilton Amsterdam which continued for 7 days.
It was the first of two “Bed-Ins” and their version of a honeymoon.
Later on “The Ballad of John and Yoko” was written by Lennon but credited, as with all their songs, to Lennon and McCartney:
“Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton , Talking in our beds for a week, The newspapers said, Say what you doing in bed? I said, were only trying to get us some peace… ”
Since its designation, the John and Yoko Suite, Room #902, renumbered as #702, has become one of the most popular honeymoon suites in the world which would now cost you about 1800 Euros a night.
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