Though area hotels have offered party and room packages before, this is a bit special.

City employees will be standing by, ready to coordinate referrals to area hotels and businesses.

On June 4, he was kidnapped from an area hotel.

One of the contractors, a deck builder, attended a seminar I gave at a metropolitan area hotel.

In all subsequent years it was held in area hotels.

Efforts turned to the hundreds of people still trapped in area hotels, hospitals, schools and private homes.

The high-speed network will also let delegates at more than 20 area hotels hold videoconferences each morning during the convention.

In fact since the 1940s over 100 area hotels have been destroyed by fire.

But today, he said, a thorough investigation into all reports from area hotels over the weekend had been ordered.

Many other area hotels and motels offer free or reduced-priced tickets.