Edgewater Hotel, Seattle waterfront
Edgewater Hotel, Seattle waterfront. The Beatles stayed in this hotel in 1964 while touring America. The Edgewater is a four-story, 223-room hotel in Seattle, Washington. It is located on the Central Waterfront on a pier over Elliott Bay (a bay of Puget Sound) and is the only over-water, and water-front hotel in the Seattle area. Shortly after it was built, shoreline zoning changes precluded the construction of further hotels on piers. In its early years, the hotel advertised on its north elevation that you could "fish from your room. The hotel is particularly famous for hosting The Beatles when they visited Seattle in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania. Because of the Beatles' connection to the hotel, there is a Beatles-themed suite and the hotel has hosted several Beatles-related events and tributes in recent years. Other famous guests have included Led Zeppelin (who were banned from the hotel after their second infamous stay there; see Shark episode), the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, and president Bill , Robert Plant was welcomed back to the hotel during his recent concert in Seattle. The hotel sits on the site of the onetime Galbraith-Bacon Pier, renamed Pier 67 during World War II. It also incorporates part of the area of the former Pier 68 (the Booth Fisheries Pier). Both old piers were demolished to build the hotel. The hotel was originally intended to open in time for the Century 21 Exposition, Seattle's 1962 world's fair, but failed to do so; it opened the following year. Originally named the Camelot, it soon became the Edgewater Inn (more recently, just The Edgewater). The Edgewater sits partly on state-owned land. A lease from the state was renewed in 1988 and is good through 2018. As of 2008, it pays the state a rent of $330,000 a year or 3 percent of the hotel's gross receipts, whichever is greater. The lease requires the hotel owners to spend a minimum of $2 million on maintenance and refurbishing
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Location: The Edgewater Hotel, 2411 Alaskan Way, Pier 67, Seattle, Washington (WA) 98121
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