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White House press secretary Jen Psaki struggled to explain why President Joe Biden’s administration was considering putting up migrants in hotel rooms. Psaki did not dispute reports that the Biden administration awarded a Texas-based nonprofit $86 million to provide hotel rooms for six months for approximately 1,200 families who cross the southern border. AD Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson questioned Psaki on why the Biden administration would provide hotel rooms, food, and shelter for migrants even as American national guard troops were forced to sleep on the floor when they protected Capitol Hill. “That’s a disparity a lot of people are...

The Biden Administration plans to spend more than $86 million dollars to house illegal alien families in hotels. Axios first reported that a Texas-based non-profit will oversee the project — housing illegals in hotels near the border in Arizona and Texas. “Biden is putting illegal aliens up in hotel rooms paid for with your tax dollars,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) wrote on Twitter. “Trump put them on [a] plane back to Guatemala.” “Unacceptable. Un-American,” wrote Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC). Immigration and Customs Enforcement will provide medical care, food service, social workers and China Virus testing — all paid for with...

The hotel industry in New York City has taken a major hit amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and is in desperate need of saving. Recently, seven hotels have been forced to go into foreclosure and were placed up for auction. Mack Real Estate stepped in and won the auction at a grand discount. The developer reportedly paid less than 40 percent of the portfolio’s 2016 value of $816.3 million for the properties, all of which are located in Manhattan, according to the Real Deal.

The Biden Administration started taking a hammer to a cornerstone of former President Trump’s immigration policy, as on Friday they allowed the first asylum-seekers into the country. President Biden’s new rules let 25 asylum-seekers stay in the US Friday as they await their hearing, instead of remaining in Mexico, as they had to do under the previous administration. The migrants tested negative for COVID-19 and were taken to San Diego hotels

Hotels have now joined airlines in considering whether or not to mandate that all guests have proof of COVID vaccination before being allowed to stay. Several airlines have already announced plans to make the shot a compulsory condition of flying. According to anecdotal evidence, hotels and other forms of accomodation could follow suit. A reader of the LockdownSkeptics website reported that a hotel in Scotland which offers wildlife holidays is preparing to adopt the no vaccine, no service policy. “Should a vaccination programme be rolled out in the next few months, then it is likely we will require all guests...

Shut Down DC is one of several violent Antifa groups combining forces to target patriots attending a pro-Trump rally to be held in Washington, D.C. on December 12, 2020. Using the hashtag #DefendDC, militant groups are doxxing specific staff members of hotels who dare to host Trump supporters, and plan to confront patriots exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. SEE BELOW ON HOW TO TAKE ACTION! The Antifa groups are using the website defenddc.org to organize their comrades. Some of the Antifa groups listed are: Black Lives Matter DC, All Out DC, Autonomous Liberation Collective NYC, Baltimore Liberation...

Rapper Akon has revealed plans for a futuristic $6 billion city in his Senegal homeland modelled on Black Panther's Wakanda. The R&B star, who boasts two multi-platinum albums, told a news conference on Monday he had laid the first stone for the city in the Atlantic Ocean village of Mbodiene, around 60 miles south of the capital Dakar. The solar-powered Akon City will offer hotels, a university, hospitals, business and leisure centres including a casino, as well as movie studios, all featuring futuristic designs by architect Hussein Bakri, with African sculptures for inspiration.

New York City officials will soon start the process of removing homeless people from the city’s hotels, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) promised Monday. “It’s important to note that as the health situation has continued to improve, we’re gonna start the process of figuring out where we can get homeless individuals back into safe shelter facilities and reduce the reliance on hotels,” the mayor said during a press conference.

The California Department of Housing and Community Development is using $100 million of the $550 million it got from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund to put homeless people in hotel rooms or other facilities in San Francisco as a way to allegedly curb the spread of the disease. The state’s Homekey program announced the millions of taxpayer dollars available as grants to pay for the housing and that the deadline to apply is December 30.

In a meeting of the government's coronavirus cabinet today, Construction and Housing Minister Yakov Litzman (UTJ) demanded that synagogues be subject to the same restrictions as those applied to hotel restaurants, which are permitted to accommodate up to 35% of their capacity at any one time. "There is no logical reason for discriminating between people coming to pray in a synagogue, where only 10 people are currently permitted to gather at any one time, and restaurant clientele, where up to 35% of the area's capacity may be filled. The discrimination is even more blatant considering that people eating in a...

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency ordinance requiring the city to secure at least 8,250 hotel rooms for three affected groups amid the stay-at-home order, with 7,000 reserved for the city's homeless. In addition to the 7,000 rooms for shielding the city's homeless residents from the coronavirus, the city would provide 500 rooms for discharged hospital patients and 750 for frontline workers. Also, the rooms must be acquired by April 26, according to the ordinance. The city has maintained it will only provide hotel rooms for homeless people in the shelter system and for single-room-occupancy...

Alyssa Milano is calling on President Donald Trump to convert his hotels in the United States to hospitals to help sick people during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The actress, who has been sharing support for healthcare workers and is a notorious critic of the Trump administration, took to Twitter on Wednesday to call on the president to take action to help the country, specifically people in his home state of New York, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make people sick across the nation. “Trump owns how many hotels in the US? And how many in NY in particular?” Milano...

Members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday asked the Secret Service to disclose the scope of its payments to President Trump's company while protecting him as he spends time at his properties. The request for documents and information came after The Washington Post reported last week that the Trump Organization has charged the Secret Service — and thereby taxpayers — for rooms used by agents at rates as high at $650 per night, despite claims that it only charges minimal fees. In a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn...

State lawmakers in California are considering a bill that would prohibit state agencies from spending taxpayer money at any of the hotels owned by President Trump or his family. The proposal, which was introduced by Democratic state Assemblyman Evan Low, would bar employees of any state agency from spending money at a Trump hotel while traveling for work. “Public officials, at any level, should not profit off the constituents that they were elected to serve and represent,” Low said in a statement. “No branch of government is above the Constitution, and this legislation will ensure that California taxpayers are not...

When checking out of a five-star hotel, thrifty travelers have been known to slip a few shower caps, mini-shampoos or even slippers into their suitcases. But more brazen guests are managing to steal bulkier items -- including mattresses, coffee machines and even a stuffed animal, hotel and spa reviewer Wellness Heaven found in a survey of 1,157 four- and five-star hoteliers. An astonishing 49 hotels reported that mattresses had been stolen from their premises since January 2018, CEO of Wellness Heaven Tassilo Keilmann told CNN, adding that it was likely hotels could have suffered multiple thefts. Hoteliers told Keilmann that...

Selling political favors works: That’s clearly Mayor Bill de Blasio’s philosophy, and his bid to box in hotels to please their union is but the latest example. On Monday, Crain’s reported that Hizzoner ordered city planners to “study” the idea of forcing hotels to get special permits, a move long sought by the hotel union. Just coincidentally, the union is the only labor group backing de Blasio’s 2020 bid. This month, The Post reported that 70% of his donors are tied to it.

A unit of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has agreed to buy Carlson Hotels, which owns brands including Radisson and Country Inns and Suites, the latest in a flurry of overseas investments by Chinese companies. HNA Tourism Group will acquire all of Carlson Hotels Inc., the companies said in a joint statement released late Wednesday that did not disclose the purchase price.

France’s government wants to launch an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his reported “links” to the European country — where he maintained a residence and visited often. The probe was first suggested on Monday by Innocence Endangered, a French NGO that defends children’s’ rights, before it was picked up and proposed by local officials. “These stays on French territory were regular and it is up to the investigators (…) to shed light on the use of the apartment acquired by Mr. Epstein,” said Innocence Endangered in a letter to Paris prosecutors, according to the Agence France Presse.

A palatial hotel in India, which has suites fit for maharajahs at £5,245 a night, has been rated the best in the world. Readers of Travel + Leisure gave The Leela Palace Udaipur 98.89 out of 100 in the publication's annual 'World's Best 100 Hotels' awards, which earned it the top spot. The 72-room, eight-suite Rajasthan hotel was lauded for its 'breathtaking view of Lake Pichola', 'excellent facilities', and its emphasis on good service. One fan said the spot would be 'ideal for honeymoons or special celebrations' because of its romantic atmosphere. In second place was The Lodge & Spa...

Penny Pritzker, the billionaire heiress whose family owns the Hyatt hotel chain, took a ride on Air Force One this afternoon from San Francisco to Portland, Ore., where President Obama was making a series of fundraising stops. The ride came hours after the announcement of a global boycott of Hyatt Hotels by Unite Here, the nation’s largest hospitality workers union. That boycott has been joined by the National Organization for Women, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Black Justice Center, and the National Football League Players Association. Pritzker was the national finance chair of Obama’s 2008 campaign....