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Avoid hotel renovation regret

I’m not sure how a fully inflated beach ball got in my hotel room.

Sheraton offers free night stay at 86 locations

The owner of Sheraton hotels will offer thousands of guests a free night's stay in dozens of North American locations as part of a massive campaign that kicks off Wednesday to highlight the chain's $6 billion revitalization efforts.

Cozy contemplation in libraries needs its own room

Step inside the children's area of the Clear Lake-County Freeman Public Library and you'll be greeted by a tumult of toddlers babbling, librarians singing and mommies cooing.

Hospitals, doctors deal with swine flu jitters

Concerns about a possible pandemic have sent people streaming into crowded emergency rooms and walk-in clinics — not with swine flu, but the swine flu jitters.

5 tips for avoiding the latest hotel scam

Jack Taras and his friends thought they would be checking in to the Occidental Grand hotel on the Dominican Republic’s postcard-perfect Eastern shore for Spring Break. But when Taras, a 19-year-old sophomore from Providence College, arrived at the resort, he was greeted with the hotel industry’s latest trick: he was walked down.

Travel tips for the inauguration

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Hotel rooms vanishing quickly for Inauguration

Heading to the capital city to be part of history on Jan. 20? Good luck finding a room.

Experts question benefit of school time-out rooms

After failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room — a converted storage area under a staircase — where she was left alone for three hours.

Colleges are allowing coed dorm rooms

Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.

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Luxury resort offers $19 room -minus bed
Source: tbo.com

A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 a night — if you don't mind sleeping in a tent.

How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
Source: Sciam

Architects have long intuited that the places we inhabit can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Now behavioral scientists are giving their hunches an empirical basis.

Quirky offices emerge in full Capitol
Source: Politico

Excerpt: Earlier this month, Stefan Alvarez got the shaft. Literally. The House Republican Study Committee staff assistant moved into a would-be elevator shaft in the Longworth House Office Building that previous occupants have dubbed "The Shaft."

Three-star hotel welcomes homeless
Source: expatica.com

Hotel Mozart, a three-star hotel in Brussels, is putting dozens of rooms at the disposal of homeless people who would otherwise have to sleep outside in the cold.

Jumbo jet hostel prepares for take off
Source: thelocal.se

Travellers passing through Stockholm's Arlanda airport will soon be able to reserve a place on a different sort of plane as the world's first jumbo jet hostel prepares to take its maiden bookings this Wednesday.

Adult hotel opened in Nanning
Source: ChinaDaily.com

---Photos--- An employee demonstrates how to use the facilities in a hotel room for adults in Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, November 6, 2008.

Navy Scraps Plans to Build More Than Two Stealth Destroyers
Source: FOXNews.com

PORTLAND, Maine — The Navy has decided to scrap its newest destroyer model after the first two are built in shipyards in Maine and Mississippi, Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday.

Inside Josef Fritzl's cellar dungeon
Source: BBC News

"For 24 years Elisabeth Fritzl and three of her children lived an isolated life in three tiny underground chambers, deprived of natural light and room to move around freely." Diagrams and floor plan of the chambers Elizabeth Fritzl and her children were imprisoned in...

Labyrinth of tunnels, chambers discovered beneath City of Industry, California,
Source: ABC Local Affiliates

The City of Industry has closed off a house after investigators looking into building code violations uncovered a labyrinth of tunnels and rooms beneath it. Sheriff's deputies are now trying to figure out what could have been going on.

9 of America's Most Haunted Places
Source: MSN

If ghosts and goblins don't give you enough chills this Halloween, plan a visit to one of these unusual and mysterious locations around the country—if you dare.

Poker Room Reviews : Poker Intensity
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Reviews of the best online poker rooms still accepting U.S. players

Spanish Hotel Seeks Stressed Guests To Destroy Rooms
Source: dailycognition.com

A Spanish hotel chain is looking for stressed guests who will be allowed to let off steam next week by smashing the interior of a central Madrid hotel as part of its refurbishment.

Peeking into the homes of complete strangers
Source: Chicago Tribune

I like peering into the rooms of strangers. I like seeing the bowl of fruit on the table and the cat curled up like a sack of flour on the bed. I hadn't even realized it until I stumbled upon NormalRoom.com, a scrapbook full of photographs of rooms around the world.

Volkswagen's Creative Lifestyle Hotel
Source: Fresh Creation

Great to see that introducing a new car can turn into something which is wonderful to look at and brings out new ideas in people.

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