{"id":219,"date":"2008-10-30T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-orlando-hard-rock-hotels-john-lennon-room\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:00:35","slug":"the-orlando-hard-rock-hotels-john-lennon-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-orlando-hard-rock-hotels-john-lennon-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orlando Hard Rock Hotel’s John Lennon room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Samantha Chapnick<\/em><\/p>\n

For Beatles<\/strong> or John Lennon<\/strong> fans, the Orlando<\/strong> Hard Rock Hotel<\/strong><\/a> is like no other.<\/p>\n

When our waiter overheard us talking about The Dakota<\/strong> and John Lennon<\/strong>, he casually asked if we were fans. Apparently our over-enthusiastic response must have impressed him. He mentioned there was a Lennon room in the restaurant but only devoted fans were granted access.<\/p>\n

After dinner, Martin introduced himself as the person who’d be giving us the tour of the Lennon room. Seeing his black nail polish, dark black eyeliner, and wall of long black hair, I spuriously and erroneously assumed he’d be more excited to point out the goggles and outfit worn by Sex Pistols<\/strong> members or maybe even something from his generation’s equivalent of Metallica<\/strong>. Butdespite being the lead singer of a rock\/punk band, he was a huge Beatles and Lennon fan.<\/p>\n

After navigating the obstacle course of tables, going down some steps, through a locked door and down a hallway, we arrived at what I like to think of as The Inner Sanctum. Designed to replicate Lennon and Ono’s apartment in the Dakota, its a predominantly white room punctuated by poignant memorabilia. Here’s a little teaser of the items, for the rest you’ll have to go for yourself!<\/p>\n