Central NY hotel management sent long-term residents scrambling to make rooms for migrant contracts

Salina, NY — Mike Brown and Nikki Henry were amazed May 18 by a knock on their door at the Candlewood Suites hotel.

It was management with a message: The couple had a little over a week to clear out of the hotel room they’d been living in for months while they worked overnights at Amazon.

The company that owns the hotel made a deal to house migrants from New York City, according to lawsuits. Residents said the hotel management was clearing them out to make rooms for new ones.

Hotel management went through most of the building that day, guests said, knocking on doors of people who had called the home for months, and even years. Residents interviewed by Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard said they were paying rates that ranged from $700 a month to $2,100 a month to stay in one- and two-room suites with kitchenettes.

Some have

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SC says NCLAT has the right to reject Appu Hotels’ resolution plan

The Supreme Court has ruled an appellate bankruptcy tribunal was right in rejecting Appu Hotels’ resolution plan even as 87.3% of verified financial creditors approved the offer given by MK Rajagopal, the founder of MGM Healthcare.

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) rejected Rajagopal’s Rs 423-crore plan on the grounds that it was revised after a majority of lenders voted on it, but the revised plan was not put before lenders for a vote. Secondly, the resolution of the applicant was ineligible under Section 29 (A) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code — a rule which bars defaulters from acquiring companies.

The division bench observed that while respecting the commercial wisdom of the Committee of Creditors, the NCLAT could not have approved the plan for these two major reasons.

After NCLAT rejected Rajagopal’s plan, the lenders approved a Rs 592-crore offer from the promoter, Periasamy Palani Gounder, in November

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Hilton Hotel manager arrested for waking up guest by sucking on his toes

A Hilton Hotel manager was arrested and charged Friday for entering a guest’s room and sucking on the customer’s toes.

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David Neal, 52, was charged with aggravated burglary and assault for entering a male guest’s room and sucking on his toes Thursday, March 30.

Nashville Police were dispatched shortly after 5 am to 121 4th Avenue South, where a Hilton Hotel resides, a spokesperson for the city’s police department stated.

While investigating a complaint, officers discovered that Neal, working as a night manager at the time, made a key card and entered the guest’s room.

The guest then woke up to find Neal sucking on his toes, which he was immediately confronted with.

The guest recognized Neal because the day before, he came into the room with another employee to fix an issue with the television, the spokesperson informed.

Neal

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From Sorrento To Positano, These Are Tablet Hotels Top 17 for 2023

For centuries the dramatic appeal of the Amalfi Coast has attracted some of the most famous people in the world, from Roman nobles to legendary writers and celebrities. The steep winding mountains and cascading cliffs are covered with stunning villas and hotels making this one of the most popular Summer destinations in the world. Positano, Ravello, and Amalfi are the area’s most frequented places, with so many crowds during the high season it is almost unbearable.

You can take a ferry along the coast from Naples, Sorrento, and travel easily to Salerno and Positano, while visiting all of the towns in between. Taking a car is a nightmare during the high season with delays lasting several hours at times through the narrow switchbacks high on the cliffsides. Make sure to book your visit to the area at

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Most Unusual Hotel Room Service Requests

Melted ice cream. Diet water. Cockle popcorn.

Apparently, these are all things that people have tried to order from hotel room service.

Hotels.com’s inaugural “Room Service Report” reveals some of the most unusual requests from guests, as shared by hotel staff members. The booking platform conducted a survey among 473 hotels in 10 countries in April to assess the state of in-room dining these days.

The list of the top 10 oddest requests also includes boiled bottled water and a fish that a guest caught and wanted cooked to order. Here’s the survey’s complete list:

  1. Diet water.
  2. Melted ice cream.
  3. blowfish.
  4. Boiled bottled water.
  5. A cooked fish that the guest brought with them.
  6. Cockle popcorn.
  7. No-egg-white omelette.
  8. Rice bowl for a dog.
  9. Bison.
  10. Eggless eggs in hell (shakshuka).

Looking beyond strange requests, the report finds that burgers are the most popular room service order, both in the United States and

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Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California are on strike, demanding better pay and benefits

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California walked off the job on Sunday, demanding higher pay and better benefits in what the union is calling the largest strike in its history.

Cooks, room attendants, dishwashers, servers, bellmen and front desk agents at hotels were picking outside major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties just as the summer tourist was leaning up.

Last month, members of Unite Here Local voted 11 96% in favor of authorizing the strike. The union is seeking better wages, improved healthcare benefits, higher pension contributions and less strenuous workloads.

In addition, the union wants to create a “hospitality workforce housing fund” to help workers deal with the soaring costs of living in greater Los Angeles. Many employees report commuting hours to work because they can’t afford to live near their jobs.

“Our members were devastated first by the pandemic, and now

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‘Jeopardy!’ Contestants Lashes Out at Show for Not Paying for Travel, Hotels

some Jeopardy! fans were left less than impressed when they found out contestants had to pay for their own travel, accommodations and expenses when competing on the show.

The hit quiz show has been filmed in Culver City, California, since 1994 and anyone who made it through to being a contestant on the show has to cover their costs no matter where in the country they were traveling from.

One contestant, Ben Goldstein, who appeared on the current season of Jeopardy! took to Twitter to argue that paying contestants’ costs the show would be more “accessible.”

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Ken Jennings attends the ABC Television’s Winter Press Tour 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 8, 2020, in Pasadena, California. Some fans were shocked to learn “Jeopardy!” contestants pay for their own accommodations.
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“Interesting discussion of the ‘Why doesn’t #Jeopardy pay airfare and accommodations’ question here. Personally, I think covering

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Hotel owner discriminated against Hispanic workers: lawsuit

An owner of a hotel based in Taos, New Mexico, called Hispanic workers racial slurs and didn't allow them to use their real names at work, a lawsuit says.

An owner of a hotel based in Taos, New Mexico, called Hispanic workers racial slurs and didn’t allow them to use their real names at work, a lawsuit says.

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The owner of a hotel banned workers from speaking Spanish and didn’t allow them to use their real names on the job, according to a lawsuit filed in New Mexico.

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A Taos hotel, which was formerly known as Whitten Inn, now must pay $87,000 as part of a settlement, according to a June 27 news release from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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The commission filed a lawsuit against the hotel company in 2014 after multiple workers said they were discriminated against by the hotel’s owner, according to the complaint. At the time of the lawsuit’s filing, the hotel had locations in Taos, New Mexico; Abilene, Texas; and Santee, South

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