Many employees at the national hotel chain, which had recently emerged from bankruptcy, were still stuck in survival mode.
Mikhail Gutseriev's BIN Group has been buying up real estate, including the famous Hotel National in Moscow, which he purchased last year from Russia's richest woman, Elena Baturina.
Earlier this week, Chris Sarkis was having drinks at the bar of the National in the Benjamin hotel with two friends.
The Hyatt Regency has immediately become the headquarters hotel for most national sporting events that have come to New Orleans, including recent Super Bowl XLVII.
Marking its 125th birthday in 2013, the Scottish baronial-style Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Parkwas built to give travellers a taste of the wilderness without needing to sacrifice their afternoon tea.
Stylish beyond its three stars, the Rembrandt Hotel faces the landmark National Bank in the historic centre.
Say you have a pending deal to buy a hotel next to Reagan Washington National Airport.
The hotel, just outside Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, is considered haunted and is routinely surveyed for paranormal activity.
Guests were forced to check out of the Volcano House Hotel and Restaurant at the Volcanoes National Park on the Hawaii's Big Island.
Members of the Pakistan national side, which was staying at the same hotel, said they narrowly escaped getting hurt.
But with its Cultural Collection initiative, the hotel has partnered with several local and national creative outfits that will stage site-specific projects exclusive to the property.
After a complimentary breakfast for two at the hotel, visit the Sir Geoffrey Henry National Culture Centre for a peek into the islands' colourful and rich history.
There is even a national website for travelers to check-up on the hotel they plan to stay in.
Mr Albwardy owns three hotels in Tanzania - the Kilimanjaro Hotel in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, a beach hotel in Zanzibar and a lodge in the Serengeti national park - through the company Albwardy Investment, reports Reuters news agency.
Elsewhere, The Foxhunter, a Grade II-listed, stone-clad hotel set on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, offers tailored foraging courses depending on the season, and Monmouthshire farm Humble By Nature offers summer classes where you can learn how to tap and drink from beech trees and make puddings, preserves and syrups from the leaves and buds picked from rowan and bramble bushes.
According to the National Union of Somali Journalists, the bomb exploded at the Shamo Hotel during a graduation ceremony organized by Banadir University.
The property finally reopened as the Hotel Parq Central in 2010 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, thanks to its railway history and impressive Italianate architecture, featuring arched windows, a flat roof and exterior baluster staircases.
Gorilla day begins for me with a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call at the Serena Hotel, then a two-hour drive to the Volcanoes National Park, where gorillas live on the Rwanda-Congo-Uganda border.
The hotel has its own wildlife biologist and photographer, Tenley Thompson, who created the programme and trained a team of naturalists to take small groups (with at least one guide for every five hotel guests) on customised wildlife safari tours through Bridger Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge.
The large Hotel Lone will be on a wooded hillside near the Zlatni Rt national park on the Istrian peninsula, just a few minutes from the Adriatic sea.
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At a Wednesday forum in Washington on electricity delivery, organized by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, a crowd of several hundred in a hotel ballroom mulled the big changes ahead when it comes to energy efficiency, production, transmission and regulation.
The hotel tax in Chicago is 14.9%, compared with a national average of 10.3%.
"They put us up in a little better hotel, " said Liney Halldorsdottir, secretary-general of Iceland's National Olympic and Sports Association.
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As Terry Wyke, a local historian, points out, plans to build a massive hotel on top of the Royal Albert Hall in London would have provoked a national outcry.
And the lobby of the Venetian hotel where 007 and Bond girl Vesper Lynd stay is actually Prague's National Museum on Wenceslas Square, currently closed for reconstruction and scheduled to reopen in June 2016.
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