11.   No guests are permitted to check into the hotel after Saturday, says hotel marketing director Tom Santora.

12.   One hotel after another refused to accept two players because they were black.

13.   Opening a new hotel after the terrorist attacks sent occupancies and room rates plunging would seem to be a case of bad timing.

14.   Owners and players checked out of their New York hotels after a day and a half of fruitless negotiations.

15.   Poor Butch seemed less concerned with winning or losing the game then he was with receiving a thank-you note from the hotel after the Red Sox left town.

16.   Roy returned to his nearby hotel after the dinner while his teammates readied for the game.

17.   She worked as a food and beverage manager at hotels after graduating from the University of Maine, where she majored in environmental science.

18.   She lives in a swank hotel after leaving her self-absorbed lawyer hubby.

19.   The police blocked off the hotel soon after the attack, preventing all workers and guests from leaving.

20.   The theft occurred at a Milwaukee hotel after assurances from the staff that the van would be safe.