Spend the night where the Beatles played, partied, and slept

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Music fans looking for a great place to stay can now book a room at the very place where The Beatles originated.

Liverpool’s Casbah Coffee Club was one of the first concert venues to host the Beatles, who played more than 40 shows in Liverpool’s West Derby neighbourhood. Mona Best, mother of the band’s first drummer Pete, opened the coffee club in the basement of her home in 1959, but it closed just three years later.

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Now, it’s an Airbnb where fans can “sleep, play and party” like their musical idols. Pete Best, 82, told the Liverpool Echo he had “fond memories” of the club and hailed its transformation as a “lasting tribute” to the band. He recalled it as a “Shangri-La” for musicians and said there was a party “guaranteed” every Saturday night. “That’s why there’s this unique saying, ‘The Beatles played here, the Beatles party here, the Beatles slept here.'”

Rooms will feature Beatles memorabilia, including photos, posters and wall-mounted guitars, and will be named after John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Other suites will be named after the Best and first bassist Stuart Sutcliffe.

The basement was preserved as a performance venue, with a drum kit and graffiti above the stage saying “John, I’m Back.” Best’s brother Roger, 62, grew up in what is now the McCartney Suite.

He told the newspaper: “Paul said one of the reasons he liked playing at the Kasbah was that it was like playing at a big house party. If the band was going to try anything new it would be at the Kasbah because it felt safe there.”

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