Own the King’s favorite Mississippi hotel

If you’ve always wanted to own a piece of hospitality history, you’re in luck. Elvis Presley’s favorite Mississippi hotel is for sale.

The waterfront Gulf Hills Hotel in Ocean Springs, Miss., features 52 rooms and suites, including the three-bedroom, four-bath luxury Love Me Tender, Love Me Suite. At its front door is the 18-hole Gulf Hills Golf Course.

The story of the boutique hotel is a rather spicy tale that dates to 1927 when Braniger Brothers Development of Chicago built it—supposedly with laundered mob money as a hideout for gangster boss Al Capone.

“The wealthy of Chicago came there. The mob would meet there,” General Manager Donna Brown told The Clarion Ledger

Capone loved the hotel because it allowed easy access and escape by both water and land.

Word started to spread about the splendor of this unique waterfront hotel, and before long, a masted schooner called the “Fairy Queen” would pick up guests from New Orleans and drop them off right at the back door of Gulf Hills.

Movie stars Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield and Judy Garland spent time here. But it’s Elvis that really gives the property its glitter.

“Elvis was one of our most famous guests,” Brown said. “He stayed in the hotel from 1951 to 1957 in the summers of those years.”

While visiting the hotel, Presley learned to water ski. He also proposed to Biloxi beauty queen June Juanico here in the late ‘50s. That engagement didn’t stick, of course, but the association with the King sure did.

All of this luxury and history can be yours for a cool $2.9 million.