Not everyone is happy with the pending demise of the famed Bengal Lounge in Victoria's Fairmont Empress Hotel.

A petition launched by Suzanne Johnston on change.org has collected 2,862 supporters as of this writing.

The owners, Nat and Flora Bosa, plan on closing the 61-year-old lounge on April 30 as part of a major renovation.

Under the headline "Save The Empress Bengal Lounge!!", Johnston aired her complaints about the removal of ivy and weeping sequoias from the front of the building facing Inner Harbour.

"Now they have plans to renovate into a modern contemporary hotel...this includes getting rid of the iconic Bengal Lounge," she wrote.

The Bengal Lounge serves curry lunch and a curry dinner buffet in a 3,000-square-foot space that harkens back to British rule over India. The tiger pelt above the fireplace wouldn't have been out of place in Calcutta at the turn of the 19th century.

When renowned architect Francis Rattenbury designed the 112-year-old hotel, this area was originally supposed to be a reading room. But in the 1950s, it was converted into a popular lounge sometimes frequented by people who work in the nearby Parliament Buildings.