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Room 77 Helps Travelers Avoid Playing Room Roulette With Hotels

A site started by travel and search industry veterans--including Calvin Yang, who designed Google's image search--gives users a peek at what's inside and outside of a hotel room, before they arrive. Front-desk griping may never be the same.READ»

More Perks, Lower Prices: Tips For Booking Hotels For Business Travel

The recovery in business travel during the first half of 2011 means fewer available rooms and higher costs. Use these tips to find the prime locations at the best value for your next business trip. READ»

Ad:tech

Hotel advertisers buying space on travel sites? How very quaint. These days, ad buyers aren't targeting websites; they're targeting specific web users. Popular sites employ dozens of bits of tracking technology to gather insanely ...READ»

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St. Regis Luxury Hotel Set to Open in Lhasa, Tibet

Luxury meets the roof of the world.READ»

Waterfront Resort Hotel Extends Into the Ocean to Protect the Coastline

Waterfront resorts are great--except when they erode the local coastline. The Waterfront Resort Hotel, designed by U:phoria for the port city of Da Nang, Vietnam, juts out into the ocean instead of hanging back along the coastline ...READ»

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Really Roughing It: Five Hotels Built From Unexpected Materials

Margarita need more ice or salt? Just chip some off the hotel walls.READ»

HOTELS   |  Comment

Hotel Chains Built Them, So We Will Come

A few years ago, before the Great Fall of 2008 but long enough after September 11 that folks were back to traveling with enthusiasm, the economy was humming along and the hotels were packed. So many of the largest hotel chains ...READ»

Hotel Reservations

Book Hotel Reservations TooREAD»

Extended Stay Motels and Extended Stay Hotels

Now extended stay hotels are on extended stay motels website.READ»

Motel Reservations

Booking motel reservations has never been like thisREAD»

Return of La Buena Vida: Conran Poised for Cuban Invasion

Sir Terence Conran, the designer and founder of the Conran Shop, has made preparations to design a dozen hotels and resorts in Cuba. Sir Terence, who revolutionized the sale and marketing of home furnishings in the sixties and ...READ»

Workshoppe: Stylish Temp Space in the Land of Gourmet Burgers and Bankers

Let's say you're based outside NYC. But you come here often enough to need an office. But not so much that it's worth renting one long term. How's someone who's design obsessed supposed to pull that off? You can't very well sell ...READ»

DESIGN   |  Comment

How InterContinental Is Redesigning The World's Largest Hotel Chain

With more than 3,200 hotels around the world, InterContinental Hotel Group's Holiday Inn is the most recognized and most popular hotel brand in the world--every second, three people check into a Holiday Inn property. This year, the ...READ»

Holiday Inn's Hotel Stacks Up Against the Competition...Literally

Would you live in a house made of cards? Probably not. Would you just stay in a hotel room made of one for a night? Well, now is your chance to at least check out your possible accommodations. Check out Holiday Inn's hotel made entirely of stacked key cards in celebration of their hotel relaunch.READ»

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The Cliff Hanger and Three Other Radical Hotel Ideas

From a resort hanging from the side of a cliff, to one that rolls on rails, the Radical Innovation in Hospitality Awards aim to change your idea of what a hotel is all about.READ»

Funky Fresh: Ace Hotel's New Breed of Design Comes to New York

The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 ...READ»

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Marriott Cuts Free Newspapers for Guests, 'USA Today' Feels the Pain

The familiar sight of newspapers scattered on the floor outside hotel rooms might soon be a thing of the past. In what is being billed as an environmentally-conscious move, Marriott International Inc. announced today that ...READ»