Hotels, which were written by literary masterpieces

Today we tell about the hotel, where he wrote the famous literary works.

"The Shining" by Stephen King

This lovely colonial-style hotel inspired Stephen King to one of the most popular and terrible in his novels. In 1974, King and his wife stayed here for one night. Late in the evening they went through Estes Park, we stumbled upon this hotel and decided to spend the night in it. At the reception it turned out that they were the only guests - very soon when the hotel closes for the winter. King was very impressed with the empty corridors and a huge dining room, where all the chairs were raised on the tables and only their table is ready to receive guests.

Night King dreamed his three year old son, fleeing in terror down the long corridor of the fire hose. Writer woke up from this nightmare, sat by the window and looking at the mountains, a few minutes wrote a story "Radiance". The novel was published in 1977, and he immediately became a bestseller. The film shot in 1980 in another location, but that's in the mini-series in 1997 you can see it, "Stanley".

And, of course, the hotel "Overlook" in completely inspired hotel "Stanley". A number of 217 is not accidentally chosen for the room in which there are some of the most frightening event - this is where King stayed with his wife. In the "Stanley" this book the room more often than others.

And they say that after the publication of "Shine" in the hotel and really started to happen strange events: here sometimes see running down the hallway of the fourth floor of ghostly children, and in the music room occasionally appears late Mrs. Stanley, wife of the founder of the hotel.

Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"

The great writer and the author of a huge number of detectives traveled a lot, and many trip inspired her to new bestsellers. So, during a trip to the Middle East Christie wrote one of his most famous of detectives - "Murder on the Orient Express." Several times she went to this express train from Istanbul to London and not by hearsay know about what it is - to be in a locked train away from the people: in 1931, "The Orient Express" with Christie on board several hours stood in the field because of a snow storm . Note that in their trips writer always took a typewriter, so perhaps, the beginning of the novel was born on the day.

But Append "Murder on the Orient Express" Christie in a more comfortable environment in this room 411 Hotel Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah in Istanbul. Today the room is named in honor of Agatha Christie, and it carefully recreates the atmosphere of the time.

Hotel loved and another well-known writer - Ernest Hemingway, is rumored to be able to spend hours sipping whiskey at the bar "Orient". Also in the Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah stopped by Queen Elizabeth II and King Edward VIII of, Sarah Bernhardt and Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacqueline Kennedy and Mustafa Ataturk.

JK Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

FINAL part of the famous story of the boy who survived, JK Rowling is appended to the old hotel The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh. The building itself looks as if descended from the pages of the saga: in such a Victorian mansion could well positioned magicians school. Rowling wrote the book in the room 552 on the fifth floor. At the door of the room hangs a plaque The J.K. Rowling Suite and a small owl figurine. Behind the door - a huge suite with a bedroom, a dressing room, a spacious bathroom and a large living room. In the living room and there is a table, followed by several chapters of "Harry Potter" were written.

As he acknowledged in an interview with Rowling herself, to finish the book at home she always someone interfere, and she remembered the "Balmoral", which has already stopped a couple of times. So in August 2006, the writer moved to the hotel. About the one who lives in a large corner suite, only a few people knew of the hotel staff. They have done everything possible so that no one disturbed the famous writer, so that she lived in a room for six months and has been already well-known story.

Today withdraw the same room at the impossible, but offers even 167 rooms - from classic to deluxe. And the spa, sauna, Turkish bath, fitness room and a chic restaurant Number One.

Ian Fleming, James Bond books about

In truth, when Ian Fleming wrote in the mansion "Golden Eye" books about James Bond, the hotel was not yet here. The house is fully owned by the writer: he bought a plot of land in Jamaica in 1946 and built his house on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach. But these days, there may stop any traveler - unless, of course, Pre-Book one of 22 rooms.

The main house, where he wrote stories about the great agent, is built on sketches by Fleming. The writer had spent more than 20 winters. It also visited Noël Coward, Katharine Hepburn, Errol Flynn, Cecil Beaton, the Princess Margaret and British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden. After Fleming's death in 1964, bought the mansion known music producer Chris Blackwell, and the villa has visited a whole series of well-known musicians: Sting, Bono, Michael Caine, as well as Johnny Depp and the Clintons. In fact, many celebrity guests planted trees on the site - this tradition began in 1956, Sir Anthony Eden. The main house has three bedrooms total, and the rest rooms are located in cottages built later. But if you want to catch the inspiration, ask you dwell in the room of Fleming, which even survived the table where he wrote books about 007. He, by the way, especially stands with his back to the window overlooking the sea, not to be distracted.

Ernest Hemingway, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Ernest Hemingway generally very respected good hotels, and there are rooms where he stayed or had lived in dozens of hotels around the world. But the honor of being the hotel where Hemingway did, fell slightly. And Ambos Mundos - one of them.

This is one of the oldest hotels in Havana, it was built in the late 1920s. And in the early 1930s, the number 511 took Hemingway. He lived here for seven years and during this time wrote three books: "Death in the Afternoon", "Green Hills of Africa" ​​and "To Have and Have Not". It is also here that he wrote some chapters of one of his most famous novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

Today in room 511 is arranged a small museum, which houses a typewriter and some personal belongings of the writer. Bed in the room is also preserved from those times. In addition, one of the restaurants is called Hemingway. And in the other restaurant, Plaza de Armas, serving favorite dishes Hemingway. If you stay at the Ambos Mundos, be sure to go up in the rooftop bar: it offers stunning views of the historic center of Havana.

Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book"

Brown's - both respectable and luxurious five-star hotel located in the heart of London between Piccadilly Circus and Regent Street. It is here that Rudyard Kipling wrote his most famous work - "The Jungle Book." Of course, the inspiration of the stories included in the book, did not foggy London and India where Kipling spent his childhood. But it is possible that the comfort rooms at Brown's usability played a role and help the writer to create a work that is today loved by children and adults. The hotel has available a special suite, named after Kipling. It features unique atmosphere of colonial India. On the walls - a unique wallpaper with a pattern of flowers and leaves. The suite also has a huge marble bathroom and a spacious living room with a comfortable desk.

Brown's Hotel is not only loved Kipling. Over the years, there lived Agatha Christie, Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander Graham Bell (who, incidentally, took away the first phone call in the world). And Sir Winston Churchill said: "I did not stay at the hotel. I stayed at Brown's ".