1.   And as the larger chain hotels fill up, more and more people are shunted to smaller, older, independent hotels.

2.   As occupancy and room rates began to soar at downtown and Midtown hotels, many chain hotels and individual developers found another rich source of revenue in airport hotels.

3.   A few days were not enough to see the picturesque countryside around Ouarzazate, a rather charmless town with several comfortable chain hotels.

4.   A chain hotel, but a very solid chain hotel.

5.   A good health center, an indoor waterfall and a heated pool rescue this establishment from the sterility that plagues chain hotels.

6.   After perusing the Web sites of chain hotels, we decided not to rate them.

7.   After you have passed the gantlet of chain hotels that ring the outskirts of town, Lexington boasts historic accommodations.

8.   But at Hurghada, where chain hotels already stand elbow-to-elbow, developers have excavated lagoons and leveled reefs, cheerfully ignoring the rules.

9.   Dallas visitors could comfortably do business in the same chain hotels and expense-account steakhouses as anywhere else.

10.   Despite the effort, there is little to distinguish the rows of chain hotels and fast food places here from those that line other Florida tourist towns.