According to reports, they told police they took her to a beach and dropped her off a short time later at her hotel, the Holiday Inn.

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As a result, big hotel chains like Holiday Inn or Marriott are radically redesigning the lobby space, making it more conducive to vocational as well as social activities.

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Muscle Shoals seemed an unlikely place for a celebrity crowd: the nicest hotel was a Holiday Inn, and sometimes the area's studios would put artists up in mobile homes at the local trailer park.

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The first phase of this integrated resort includes a 1, 200-room Holiday Inn and a 636-room Conrad Hotel.

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More than 1, 000 parents, teachers and school governors attended the first Rallies for Education at Manchester's Midland Hotel and Liverpool's Holiday Inn.

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The exhibitions are running at the Cedar Court Hotel until Saturday, and the Holiday Inn in Ossett next Friday and Saturday.

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The Holiday Inn is, by all accounts, a profitable and successful hotel.

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Budget conscious travellers should seek out hotel chains such as Best Western, Country Inn, Hampton Inn or Holiday Inn Express that include extras like breakfast, parking and Internet in their nightly rates.

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We started with the iconic ribbon cutting of 1952 with the Wilson Kids when they cut the ribbon at the first hotel back in Memphis and then they redid it on August 1 of this year at the Holiday Inn Memphis Wolfchase Galleria.

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