The two pilots would meet again, but this time in the lobby of a Florida hotel.

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In July Lynyrd Skynyrd's 49-year-old bassist--one of the few surviving original members--was found dead in his Florida hotel room.

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Don Shula Hotel in Florida was one of the first hotels to introduce the concept back in 2006.

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David Gabri, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) headquartered in Orlando, Florida, has been handling hotel buyouts for almost 30 years.

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There is a hotel on the west coast of Florida where I have stayed quite often, and during football season Madden would sometimes stay there too.

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Stories of rescues were of little comfort for Len Gengel of Deerfield Beach, Florida, whose daughter was feared trapped in the Montana Hotel, a five-story structure that pancaked in the quake.

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Five months later she was dead herself, of causes still unknown, after collapsing in her hotel room at an Indian casino in Hollywood, Florida.

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On the morning after that pool-deck encounter in Florida I headed out for a walk, and in the parking lot of the hotel I saw one of the Tokens loading his stage clothes into his car.

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Last week, a small group held court in a hotel conference room along the concrete boulevards that have long since replaced the placid beaches of Hollywood, Florida.

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