Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal

The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel is an upscale luxury hotel in Montreal, Canada. The hotel is also known under the french name Le Reine Élizabeth.

The Queen Elizabeth Hotel is located in downtown Montreal, at 900 Rene Levesque Boulevard W., with Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in the foreground. The hotel is located directly above Montreal's main train station and is connected to the underground city, a network of many walkways and subways. The Queen Elizabeth Hotel was built by the Canadian National Railway and the construction works were finished in the year 1958. The hotel was acquired later by the corporation Canadian Pacific Hotels. The company was renamed and in present-day is carrying the name Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel is the second largest Fairmont hotel in Canada and the largest hotel in the province of Quebec. The building has 21 floors and a number of 1039 rooms. Since its inauguration, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel has been the residence of many famous guests. Among the personalities who stayed there we can mention the Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Princess Grace of Monaco, Jacques Chirac, Indira Gandhi, Charles de Gaulle, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Mihail Gorbaciov, Jimmy Carter, Joan Crawford, Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush, the Dalai Lama and John Travolta. The place is also famous for the Bed-In interviews of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, in 1969. John recorded his first solo single, «Give peace a chance», in the Room 1742 of Queen Elizabeth Hotel.