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‘Stairwell room’ marketed for National Day holidays suspended - A fast-chain hotel in Beijing reportedly was selling "stairwell rooms" to consumers during the National Day holidays, which failed to meet fire safety standards

The incident triggered wide discussion among netizens over the rising price of hotel rooms amid a strong recovery in domestic travel during the upcoming holidays. Local fire authorities received a report claiming that one hotel under the chain Greentree Inn Express was marketing a "stairwell room," which is only six square meters in size and has closed windows.

Man allegedly tries to steal tourist's purse at gunpoint - HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post), Anthony Leo Wabol was charged with attempted second-degree robbery

According to the magistrate's complaint, officers with the Guam Police Department responded to a theft of property complaint at Garden Villa Hotel in Tumon where they met with a woman who reported she was with her friends when she was approached by a man who tried to grab her purse. "She stated that the unknown male had a black handgun pointed at her and that he was wearing a sweat shirt, was slim built and was wearing a face mask," the complaint stated.

Scandal in Algeria, Chengriha's daughter staying in New York luxury hotel paid for with public money

The daughter, who previously stayed in Geneva, Switzerland, went to New York to join Algeria's Permanent Representation to the UN. For more than two months, the situation of the daughter of the head of the Algerian army, Said Chengriha, has provoked various voices within the Algerian parliament to call on the government to explain the expenses involved in her stay and her duties. According to Maghreb Intelligence, the official version of the Algerian government is that the reason for the transfer is to take up a post in the Permanent Representation of Algeria to the UN.

TN govt to inspect hotels after girl dies of food poisoning - Food department of TN had conducted raids and inspections in many hotels from April to August and 1894 cases were filed

Chennai: The food department of Tamil Nadu will conduct raids in hotels across the state after a 14-year-old girl died of food poisoning in Namakkal district a couple of days ago. State health Minister Ma Subramanian has ordered the food department officials to conduct raids to find out the violators. The minister directed officials to check whether the restaurants were following food safety guidelines. The quality of the food served will be checked and those will be fined where sub-standard food is served, said the minister.

Florida woman “borrows” alligator and keeps it in hotel bathtub - A woman was arrested in Orange County for stealing an alligator and keeping it in her hotel bathtub.

On Monday, Sept. 4, The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) received a call to the Grove Resort and Water Park in Orange County. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office was asking for assistance in dealing with a young alligator that a woman was keeping in her hotel room’s bathtub. According to FWC, she “borrowed” the alligator without permission to take pictures with for her five-day stay at the resort for her birthday.

WEST YARMOUTH, Massachusetts – A woman was savagely beaten with a lamp and robbed when she opened her hotel door for a couple claiming to need help early this morning.

Yarmouth Police received a 911 call with an open line and a woman heard screaming shortly before 4:00 a.m., according to radio transmissions. The call led officers to a hotel room at the Days Inn on Route 28, where they found a woman badly beaten and bleeding. She was also robbed of her valuables. The suspects, a woman and a man, fled on foot.

National City hotel evacuated after dumpster fire sends smoke into building - The early morning fire caused between $20,000 and $30,000 in damage at the Best Western Marina Gateway Hotel; the cause is under investigation

NATIONAL CITY — Guests staying at a National City hotel were awakened by fire alarms early Thursday after a blaze in a dumpster sent smoke into the building, officials said. The fire at the Best Western Marina Gateway Hotel on Bay Marina Drive was reported around 3:40 a.m. in a large trash dumpster.

Cops Show Up After Friends Start Running ‘Abandoned’ Nashville Hotel By Themselves! When a group of three friends arrived at their hotel in Nashville for a fun birthday getaway, they were met by no one. Literally, no one.

When they realized that there were no hotel employees anywhere to be found, they did what any fun-loving group would do – take over the hotel! The group of friends documented some of their hotel takeover adventure on TikTok and viewers had jokes to add to the hilarious situation.

Ex-security worker at NYC hotel busted for shooting at migrant during feud - An ex-security worker at a Queens hotel was charged with attempted murder this week for allegedly firing at a migrant during a heated fight, police sources told The Post Friday.

Josue Payamps, 33, was working an administrative job for a security company at the Holiday Inn’s LaGuardia West site on 10th Street near 37th Avenue in Dutch Kills – which is being used to house migrants – when he got into a fight with one of the asylum seekers on Sept. 5, the sources said. Payamps was fired from the company following the violent feud with the 28-year-old migrant, the sources said. But he returned to the hotel around 8:30 p.m. the same day and got into another fight with the same man, according to the sources.

Oxfordshire pub where Kate Moss goes gets low hygiene score - The Five Alls in Filkins was given a one-star-out-of-five rating for food hygiene after an assessment on August 15, the Food Standards Agency's website shows

A chic watering hole frequented by supermodel Kate Moss must make 'major improvements' to the way it manages and carries out food preparation. Ms Moss has been a regular at the foodies pub which has a restaurant with chandelier, oil paintings and distinctive postage stamp wallpaper.

Inside the Manhattan Hotel That Is the New Ellis Island City officials describe the Roosevelt Hotel, the city’s main intake center for homeless migrants, as the “new Ellis Island.” But local political leaders are also hoping to restrict who comes.

Inside a once grand but long-faded hotel in midtown Manhattan, dozens of immigrants huddle together beneath large chandeliers as they wait hours to be processed. They give their information — where they’ve come from, and their ultimate destination — and they strip down for a medical examination. They rest and hold their children tight.

Minister, Premier's aide got massages with Ontario Greenbelt developer in Vegas - Three Wynn Las Vegas hotel employees say their records contradict the story an Ontario Minister gave the Integrity Commissioner

claiming the pair, along with a former aide to Premier Doug Ford, actually got massages at the same time. Minister Kaleed Rasheed and Amin Massoudi got the “Good Luck Ritual” massage and developer Shakir Rehmatullah got a custom massage at the same time in the Spa at Encore, 4 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2020, which the hotel describes as a “truly opulent experience,” the three hotel employees said.

In a Kosovo Mountain Resort, Villas, Bribes and a Big-Name Scandal - The prosecutor behind one of Kosovo’s biggest ever corruption cases is confident of success despite the efforts of deep-pocketed ‘businessmen’

On a frosty morning in December 2021, prosecutors accompanied by heavily-armed police carried out a series of raids in the municipality of Shterpce/Strpce, home to Kosovo’s biggest mountain resort – Brezovica. Located near the western city of Prizren in the Sharr Mountains National Park, Brezovica’s steep slopes once served as back-up for the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics, but ownership arguments since Kosovo’s 1998-99 war has long frustrated development plans.