The hotel contains 16 rooms, plus an annex of five rooms located just down the street.
Some surfaces could not be removed, because, as do many 1970s buildings, the hotel contains asbestos.
And the hotel contains a space that is a nod to history: the Ataturk Museum Room, where the founder of modern Turkey first stayed in 1917.
A bag found in the Taj Mahal hotel contained 400 rounds of ammunition, grenades, identity cards, rations, $1,000£65050) in cash and international credit cards, indicating a meticulously planned operation.
But despite the novel's ambitious plotting, its clever weaving of fact with fiction, its satirical stabs at the film and television industry, and some elegant sentences and set-pieces (the novel written by the American at the hotel contains some of the most moving writing about war I've read in a while), it fails at being either a fun page-turner or a more erudite, literary read.
The hotel contains the offices of several foreign news organizations, including The New York Times.
The hotel contains 84 rooms and 6 meeting rooms with a capacity of up to 150, regularly used for conferences, weddings, exhibitions, seminars and training sessions.
Eight hotels containing almost 4,000 rooms are scheduled to open across Austin within the next three years, making the Texas capital one of the most active markets in the country for new hotel construction.
In 1998 a total of 192 hotels contained 9,959 rooms in Suffolk and Nassau counties, Mr. Hollander said.
