Some travelers who recently had that opportunity -- the 683 guests staying at the Westin Resort and Spa in Cancún when Hurricane Emily passed through in mid-July -- received certificates commemorating the experience, and the hotel held a contest asking guests what they would take if they had to be evacuated, which ultimately did not happen (unlike at other hotels, right).
Bob Younger, 58, a retired teacher from Queens and winner of the hotel's "hot buns" contest last year, insisted that he was straight.
At the Library Hotel in New York, where individual floors are assigned numbers from the Dewey decimal system and rooms have books within that classification, the hotel ran a haiku contest in April to celebrate National Poetry Month.
A hotel owner devises a contest where six Las Vegas gamblers frantically search for a bag containing $2 million.
Lisa Loeffler reports on how Fairmont hotels used a Facebook contest to segment audiences.
Finally, she and the equally mercurial Weatherspoon began pawing at each other, just as when they were roommates on national teams and they would conduct killer push-up contests on hotel room carpets until even they had exhausted themselves to the brink of sleep.
"Despite the difficult economic contest, the French hotel business has shown a remarkable resistance," he said.
Castro was accused of raping a woman in his Pittsburgh hotel room in 2003 and pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanor assault charge.
The winner of this year's We Are Linux contest will get airfare and hotel for LinuxCon in Boston, plus a laptop pre-loaded with Linux.
After making a prank call to the hotel's social director, he enters the contest as the mysterious Franswa Shari, a young beauty from Paris, France.
A recent peek behind that digital curtain showed guests uploading photos of their burgers, asking the concierge if there were any Russians visiting the hotel (there were) and participating in online contests.
