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The Beatles Suite

The Beatles stayed at The Antrobus. This is the room we named after them.

The story

Four famous guests

Plenty of hotels claim a famous visitor. Ours were the most famous band in the world, and they slept here.

The Beatles came to Wiltshire in May 1965 to film scenes for Help! on Salisbury Plain. For three days, from 3 to 6 May, they stayed here, at what was then the Antrobus Arms, while they worked. Photographs of their stay are further down this page.

The hotel has had cameras in since. The BBC used it as a location for the Miss Marple story Nemesis.

The suite is decorated in black and white, with a double bed, an armchair and a tall window with a radiator beneath it, and a row of framed black and white photographs of the band along the wall above the bed. Press cuttings from the time, photographs of the band at work on the plain and framed album covers hang elsewhere in the room.

BedsDouble bed
BathroomEn-suite
Wi-FiFree
Check-in / check-outFrom 14:00 / by 11:00
BreakfastCooked breakfast included
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The Beatles Suite: a double bed with black and white bedding against a black wall, under a row of framed black and white photographs of the band, with a black leather sofa in front

The Beatles Suite from the foot of the bed: a fireplace with a TV above it, framed photographs, and a tall window with a radiator beneath

From the archive

Three days in May 1965

The band spent their days on the plain, filming the scenes in which they play surrounded by soldiers and tanks, and came back to the hotel at night. These photographs show them out on the plain, in the hotel's rooms and at its front door.

The Beatles filming Help! on Salisbury Plain in 1965: the band at their instruments in a grassy field under boom microphones, with soldiers crouching in the foreground — Filming *Help!* on Salisbury Plain, a few miles from the hotel. Photo: Michael Peto, © University of Dundee

The Beatles relaxing in armchairs in Room 20 at the hotel in 1965, one of them barefoot — In Room 20

The Beatles in the Fountain Room in 1965: one plays an acoustic guitar while the others sit on a sofa beside a basket of fruit — In the Fountain Room, which is now hired out for parties and private dining

George Harrison and Paul McCartney at a lunch table at the hotel in 1965 — George Harrison and Paul McCartney at the hotel. Photo: Michael Peto, © University of Dundee

A policeman and a crowd of onlookers outside the hotel's front porch as members of the Beatles come down the steps — Crowds at the hotel's front porch

George Harrison at a table at the hotel in 1965, a cigarette in his hand beside a cup of coffee — George Harrison. Photo: Michael Peto, © University of Dundee

Paul McCartney at a table at the hotel in 1965, his hands clasped under his chin — Paul McCartney. Photo: Michael Peto, © University of Dundee

The back of The Antrobus Hotel seen across the lawn, with the stone fountain and pond in the walled garden

While you are here

The plain is on the doorstep

Salisbury Plain starts at the edge of town, and Stonehenge sits on it under three miles from the hotel. Drive up for the stones in the morning, walk the banks at Durrington Walls after lunch, and be back in the bar by six.

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The Beatles Suite

Four famous guests

Three days in May 1965

The plain is on the doorstep

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