Restricted largely to a setting of conference rooms in second-rank hotels, they take pains to notice whether the chairs are leather or Naugahyde, and whether the curtains are clean.

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Sun City has some 1, 200 rooms across its four hotels, the second-most luxurious of which is the five-star Cascades Hotel.

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But to visit Bend now is to be in the eye of housing hurricane, with nearly deserted housing tracts, woefully empty hotels and residential second-home developments.

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Even in Benghazi, Libya's second-biggest city, the hotels are a centrally planned flourish of broken lifts, leaking lavatories and bolshie chambermaids.

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The woman with the fastest time wins a wellness weekend for two at WestCord Hotels located across the Netherlands, the second-place finisher gets a makeover for her and her best friend, and the person in third-place receives a wine date for four at Fosk Restaurant in town.

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For example, in large hotels, voltage dips and power interruptions of less than a second can result in booking and reservation system failures, which are extremely expensive.

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In the category for hotels of 425 rooms or fewer, the Amandari and Amankila hotels in Bali and the Amanpuri in Phuket were ranked first, second and fifth, respectively.

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