There was initially a problem with the accommodation as the family were offered a room in the main hotel block.
The phone data later led police to a cheap hotel room in a grey, nondescript hotel block in Alfortville, south of Paris, where the men had booked a room for that week.
Short-term guests have the choice of rooms in a small hotel block or (cheaper) wood cabañas with palm-thatch roofs (screened in, so the bits don't fall on you).
There are no high-rise concrete hotel blocks, no fancy restaurants, no full English breakfasts.
Mr. Hu arrived amid intensive security on Tuesday morning, with access to his downtown luxury hotel blocked on all sides.
On a drive I took north out of Sanya last November, the countryside quickly retreated from apartment and hotel blocks to hillsides heavy with mango trees and rice paddies worked by teams of farmers and water buffalo.
If nothing else, the Giants are saving money by being guests in their own home, as Phelan estimated that the team spends nearly a quarter of a million dollars on the average cross-country road trip, on expenses like charter flights, hotel blocks and buses.
Shun-Wen Tong, a 22-year-old student from the Chinese city of Hangzhou, cranes his neck to look at the town 54 floors below: concrete hotel blocks, pulsating traffic and directly beneath him, half- hidden in the tropical gloom, an amusement park called Funny Land.
Of all the places in New York that EMC could have held its analyst meeting, it could be construed as symbolic that it chose a hotel blocks away from the World Trade Center site.
For the first few days we camped out in a hotel blocks from the White House and braved Hurricane Sandy.
