John Malone's Liberty Media put its On Command hotel-video unit up for sale and may raise as much as $500 million, Bloomberg News reported.
But that is far from the more than the $300 a night commanded by hotels before the economy faltered.
There was one terrifying episode when an inebriated player took command of the hotel shuttle bus, with me and my two mates in the back, and drove us straight across a roundabout until the keys were wrestled off him, and another more salutary one when I was hustled by a darts player on the pool table and Sid had to pay my debt.
And my phone died that night and I left my charger in the RV but by the time that we were able to get it back on, my phone had several voicemails from several people all up and down the chain of command of that hotel.
THE BOTTOM LINE We were lucky to snag a room at $299 in early May; the hotel commands as much as $599 some nights.
The group's Taj Hotels command some of the highest rates in the world — one night in a luxury suite in the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai costs 110,000 rupees ($2,795) in high season.
Executives, many of them stranded in cities hundreds of miles from their usual bases, set up command posts in hotels and in offices borrowed from clients and customers, as they simultaneously tried to run their companies and figure out how to get home.
Executives, many of them stranded in cities hundreds of miles from their usual bases, set up command posts in hotels and in offices borrowed from clients and customers as they tried to run their companies and figure out how to get home.
The center of Fort William, I quickly learned, is but a street's length of fishing and hiking shops and liquor stores, with a slather of concrete, an expanse of lawn, a spiky Victorian church or two, a handsome stone hotel commanding a stretch of grass called the parade, and the loch running alongside.
pacuarelodge.com All roads lead from San José but instead of staying in the scrappy capital start your trip in the mountains to the north where this elegant little hotel commands wide, open views of verdant coffee plantations from its 13 suites and hilltop pool.
The Kachin army still holds Laiza, the capital of the Kachin autonomous region, where the generals have established a command center on a hotel's fourth floor.
