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Who's Knocking On The Door At 7:30am?

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 17400 Halsted St [map], Homewood, IL, United States, 60430
August 24, 2011 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

It was a Tuesday morning just like any other in Homewood, IL. Birds were chirping. Cereal was being poured. Toxic pool chemicals were left exposed.

After showing up for a scheduled inspection at the Homewood Hotel, authorities discovered improperly-stored pool chemicals on the property, and quickly had to evacuate all 36 occupied guest rooms. At 7:30 in the morning. After shuffling sleepily onto the front lawn, guests were understandably irked. And even more so when the Fire Chief announced that it would take another four to eight hours for the hotel to be deemed safe again.

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The W Austin Says Bye-Bye To More Windows...And Its Guests

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 200 Lavaca Street [map], Austin, TX, United States, 78701
June 29, 2011 at 10:28 AM | by | Comment (1)

For the third time in just two weeks, the W Austin shed more glass panels from its increasingly hazardous steel frame. The 36-story building, which houses both the hotel and condominiums, lost several of its window panes on two separate occasions throughout Monday and Tuesday, and now has evacuated all of its guests to a separate hotel until further notice.

Local reporters were all over the story yesterday and this morning, and we enjoyed a particularly well-angled candid photo from FOX reporter Sara Talbert (@saratalbert, see above), taken this morning—can you spot the missing three panels?

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Falling Rocks at Yosemite Forces Hotel Ahwahnee Guests to Evacuate

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 9005 Ahwahnee Drive [map], Yosemite National Park, CA, United States, 95389
August 27, 2009 at 9:14 AM | by | Comments (0)

Staying at The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park will always be a memorable experience. For the folks that can cough up $500+ for a night's stay, they will have the memories of waking up to killer views of the park's granite Half Dome, Yosemite Falls and Glacier Point. Guests will also be sleeping inside a historic hotel, first built in 1927 (nearly prehistoric days for California) and designed during the Arts & Craft movement where everything had to be homemade. ("Machines are evil!" was the prevailing thought of this movement.)

Oh and if the hotel gets evacuated because of falling rocks behind it, that's even more memorable. Kinda. Three hundred guests at the hotel had to be evacuated yesterday after falling rocks, some as big as "microwave ovens", crashed into the hotel's valet parking lot.

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