(London) Beatles fans will be able to sleep – and party – in the club where the “Fab Four” began their career, in a house near Liverpool, available for rent since Wednesday on the Airbnb website.
“What makes my home unique: The Beatles played and stayed here,” the owner writes to introduce himself on the platform.
The house, known as the Casbah Coffee Club, is one of the legendary locations well-known to fans of the group.
This unique club was opened in 1959 in the basement of the family home by Mona Best, the mother of the band’s early drummer, Pete Best.
There were 13 performances by John Lennon’s first band, the Quarrymen, and more than 40 by the Beatles.
“The Casbah is where it all started. We helped paint it and so on. We considered it our own personal club,” Paul McCartney said, according to the venue’s website.
“With the opening of the Casbah, it was guaranteed that there would be a party every Saturday night,” Pete Best recalled to the British PA news agency. “That’s why they say, ‘The Beatles played here, the Beatles partied here and the Beatles slept here,'” the musician, now 82, added.
The rooms above the club are now available for short-term rental. There is the McCartney Suite, the Lennon Suite and the Harrison Suite to choose from. Another is dedicated to Stuart Sutcliffe, the early Beatles bassist. There is no room named after Ringo Starr, however, as he joined the group later, in 1962, the year the club closed.
The rental of the house is a “tribute” to the group and to Mona Best’s dream of giving fans the chance to follow in the footsteps of their idols, Pete Best explained.
The rooms were decorated in a Beatles theme, with photos of the band members, posters and guitars hanging on the walls.
The basement has been preserved as it was in the club’s days, with drum kits still on display.
It’s “a truly unique experience,” promise Pete Best and his brother Roag, who are handling the rental.
It costs around £125 (€146) per room for a night in early September.