Hotel on Barges Whoops It Up on the Gulf Coast of Texas
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ARANSAS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Texas _ "That's a once in a lifetime experience," said Rick Tinnin.
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For South Florida hotels, October&#39;s end brings more than a change in the weather. It also ushers in the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, an annual highlight for many hospitality firms.
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For beach lovers, hotels.com earlier this week had rooms at the Catamaran Resort in San Diego for $149 a night over New Year&#39;s weekend.
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PORT ARANSAS, Texas _ Island inertia sets in during the drive over the causeway from Corpus Christi.  An hour ago, hair and clothes mattered. But now nothing does, really, except the beach or the fishing.
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It was a luxury hotel full of families enjoying a warm late summer&#39;s evening. Some sat by the swimming pool while others strolled casually into the Taba Hilton Hotel dining room.
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By Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 18--VIRGINIA BEACH -- It's impossible to know if the Tropicana Resort Hotel really is the dirtiest hotel in the country. But a popular Web site says it is, and now the owners are fighting a public relations nightmare.
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By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 3--On a hazy spring morning, George Malone steers his johnboat toward the head of the Back River in Essex, passing the twin golden domes of the sewage treatment plant and gliding under the Eastern Avenue bridge.
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Before Hurricane Ivan was even ashore, the New Orleans Riverside Hilton had already gone to the dogs &#151; and the cats, and the birds.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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Austin Ranch, one of the oldest dude ranches in Texas, has launched a new branding campaign targeting corporations, local residents and guests from surrounding hotels, including the adjacent Hilton DFW Lakes.
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DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Oil-service equipment in the Gulf of Mexico is built to withstand the fierce winds of Hurricane Ivan. The bigger threat is a decline in demand for the companies&#39; equipment.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  By Seth Borenstein  The Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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By Lloyd, Jay  But the folks who flock to South Padre Island, off the southern tip of Texas, are anything but poor Reasonable prices The lure South of the border If you go ...  There's a long, slim spit of land on the Gulf of Mexico at the very tip of southern Texas.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. - Hurricane Ivan and its 130-mph winds slammed this historic port city with frightening intensity early Thursday as the storm began its assault on the Gulf Coast, lashing the region with heavy rain and ferocious wind, spawning monster waves that toppled beach houses and spinning off deadly tornadoes...
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Gulf Coast residents kept a watchful eye and the oil industry began making preparations Thursday as forecasters warned that a weather system swirling over waters west of Florida could become a tropical storm.
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The Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel in Allston is for sale, and its great views of the Charles River may soon be owned instead of rented nightly.
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ON THE RIO GRANDE, Texas  - The riot of green vegetation that lines both sides of the Rio Grande river along the southeast Texas and Mexican border can give a canoeist the impression of gliding past unbroken wilderness.