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A Bay Area woman booked a weekend trip to Wine Country. But she panicked when she learned the hotel might not have a room for her stay.

When you book a stay at a hotel, the confirmation email hitting your inbox probably makes you feel like your trip is locked in place. But a Bay Area woman learned this week, just because you are able to book a hotel room online doesn’t necessarily mean the hotel has a place for you to stay. Chris Chmura reports.

Police arrested a 26-year-old man who allegedly dropped off a backpack and made a bomb threat Friday morning at a Fremont hotel.

A Fremont hotel was evacuated Friday morning on reports of a suspicious bag, according to police.

As hotels across the country begin to reopen, more and more people are hitting the road and booking places to stay. But there’s one souvenir you won’t want to bring home: the coronavirus. Whether you’re traveling for business or for pleasure, here are some tips to help stay safe at your hotel during the pandemic.

Crews have recovered the body of one of two construction workers that became trapped nearly 10 months ago in the collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans

You can never be too rich for New York City, where one hotel suite runs $350,000 a week.

Phil Mickelson had a wild Sunday, and that was before he showed up for the BMW Championship. Mickelson said on Twitter that lightning struck the hotel where he was staying, leading to an evacuation. One problem: He was staying on the top floor, his clubs were in his room and his tee time at Medinah was approaching. “Kind of a...

Flames consumed Dallas’ historic Ambassador Hotel early Tuesday morning, leaving behind only a shell of the 115-year-old landmark building.

A growing list of multinational banks are banning employees from staying at hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, where homosexuality and adultery is punishable by death. J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and others — called to task by celebrities like Elton John, George Clooney and Ellen DeGeneres — have barred staff from staying at properties owned by the Dorchester Collection...

The death toll from an extremist attack on a luxury hotel and shopping complex in Nairobi climbed to 21, plus the five militants killed, police said Wednesday in the aftermath of the brazen overnight siege by al-Shabab gunmen. Two people accused of facilitating the attack were arrested. The number of those killed at the DusitD2 complex rose with the discovery...

Authorities say an upscale area in Nairobi, Kenya, was under attack Tuesday. People were rushed from the scene after a blast and heavy gunfire.

A couple turned their home into an illegal hotel where a party held by guests last year ended in a shootout that sent partygoers fleeing from rooftop to rooftop and terrified neighbors, a San Francisco official said Wednesday. A lawsuit filed by City Attorney Dennis Herrera alleges Erik M. Rogers and his wife, Anshu Singh, unlawfully rented their Bernal Heights...

A couple turned their home into an illegal hotel where a party held by guests last year ended in a shootout that sent partygoers fleeing from rooftop to rooftop and terrified neighbors, a San Francisco official said Wednesday. A lawsuit filed by City Attorney Dennis Herrera alleges Erik M. Rogers and his wife, Anshu Singh, unlawfully rented their Bernal Heights...

One hotel is offering a “propose like a prince” package, including a horse-drawn carriage ride.

Hurricane Harvey’s boon to Houston-area hotel managers is ending as displaced residents find more permanent shelter seven months after the storm. Houston’s average hotel occupancy rose to 86 percent in the weeks following the hurricane as federal aid helped fill up often-vacant rooms, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The nation’s first hotel-based dispensary is opening in the heart of the Sunset Strip next year.

Police are looking for two men who beat and robbed a woman and her mother, who was visiting from Korea, in a Placentia hotel parking lot on Friday.

Hotels aim to make your stay memorable but sometimes it is other guests that make it memorable in all the wrong ways. Americans at hotels are most aggravated by other guests who are “Inattentive parents,” and “Hallway Hellraisers,” according to a new study from Expedia. According to the survey, 72 percent of Americans were most irritated when parents were lazy...

San Francisco-based ridesharing company Uber is partnering with a Hotel rewards program for the first time. Now people in Starwood Hotel’s Preferred Guest program can earn hotel “points” at the chain every time they choose to ride with Uber.