The lesson here is that Europe's rescue programs, like the Hotel California of song, are more easily entered than exited.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Europe's Hotel California

There were problems from the start as I pulled up to the upscale California hotel which serves as the centerpiece of a resort and conference center.

FORBES: Why The Most Successful People Succeed: A Case Study

On 5 April the Legoland Hotel opens in San Diego inside the Legoland California Resort.

BBC: Openings: Bangkok, Austria, London, Hong Kong

Both guests and the press are told to be in their seats long before that for security reasons, so you find yourself leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel in evening clothes at 3 in the California afternoon while more rational folks are heading for the beach.

FORBES: A Night At The Oscars

On May 15, 1915, in the posh new Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles, a cadre of California farmers gathered to decide the fate of a new crop.

NPR: What's in a Name? The Avocado Story

If you like to do a little time travel with your present-day travel, the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, California is a great place for a weekend getaway.

BBC: A ghostly visit on the RMS Queen Mary hotel

If you want to know who will make and who will lose money in the convergence wars now besetting media, entertainment and tech, then I invite you to sign up for: MEET 2006, a FORBES conference to be held Oct. 24 and 25 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

FORBES: Magazine Article

More than 500 people are expected at a hotel in San Jose, California on Saturday for the convention of the Muslim education and leadership group.

CNN: Recovery: Inklings of economic optimism

After a two-year overhaul the famed Hotel Bel-Air reopens on 14 October in Los Angeles, California.

BBC: Openings: Los Angeles, Florence and Qatar

In the same year he pleaded "no contest" to charges of kicking a hotel security guard in West Hollywood, California.

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