21.   Breakfast is a continental spread included in the room rate, with gourmet coffee steeped in French-press pots.

22.   Breakfast is included in the daily room rate.

23.   Business travelers to foreign lands are already finding a much bigger selection of hotels and room rates, largely because of the expansion of American hotel chains abroad.

24.   But avoid the restaurant at all costs, even if the hotel tries to include dinner with your room rate.

25.   Business travelers, too, may give up Saturdays and Sundays at home, to take advantage of lower air fares and hotel room rates on weekends.

26.   But hoteliers, eager to fill up their empty rooms, cut room rates for August conventioneers.

27.   But rapidly rising room rates may be too much of a good thing, Leventhal said.

28.   But most hotel operators believe that cutting the room rates was the right way to go.

29.   But the hot summer months remain the slowest time in the city, when crowds are lighter and room rates lower.

30.   But the room rates are fairly sizeable.