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With about 300 days until international horse sport fans descend on Kentucky for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, cheap hotel rooms in the Bluegrass are extinct. To stay in Lexington, where the Kentucky Horse Park will host the games, likely will cost $300 a night and up. To get into the $100 neighborhood, you'll likely have to look outside Central Kentucky.

This week's question: The Boulder City Council started to tackle the planet's climate crisis and advocated global nuclear disarmament. Some Boulder residents understandably object to City Council members using their tax dollars to attend an overseas conference.

TripAdvisor®, the world's most popular and largest travel community, was honored to have four TripAdvisor Media Network sites chosen as Top Travel Websites of 2009 by Travel + Leisure magazine.

LAS VEGAS -- After he scored a room at the Excalibur online for $24 a night, Mario Ellis hopped in his car and headed for Sin City. "I had to jump on it," said Ellis, 42, a UPS driver from Los Angeles, a key drive-in market for Vegas. He hasn't eaten in any fancy restaurants since he arrived Sunday.

LAS VEGAS -- After he scored a room at the Excalibur online for $24 a night, Mario Ellis hopped in his car and headed for Sin City. "I had to jump on it," said Ellis, 42, a UPS driver from Los Angeles, a key drive-in market for Vegas. He hasn't eaten in any fancy restaurants since he arrived Sunday.

Clark County commissioners expressed little appetite Tuesday to go after online travel companies for unpaid room taxes. Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani asked the board to consider following the lead of 45 governments in suing online travel agencies for room taxes an attorney estimates could total $500 million.

Expedia.com®, the world's leading online travel agency, has announced the selection of HL Group as its public relations agency of record. Effective immediately, journalists may reach HL Group through expediapr@hlgrp.com. Headquartered in New York, HL Group specializes in communications, marketing and strategic planning for global companies, primarily consumer, luxury lifestyle and fashion brands.

Forget those perceptions that the Chinese rip off good ideas. Their startups are as scrappy and risk-taking as those in Silicon Valley

Downtown Bellevue's year-old Expedia Tower has been sold for $168 million in King County's priciest real-estate transaction so far this year. HRPT Properties Trust, a real-estate investment trust based in Newton, Mass., bought the 20-story tower last week from an affiliate of Houston-based Hines, according to county records.

SeatGuru®, the web's most comprehensive resource for airline information, today released its pick of the top five domestic airports to be stuck at, should travelers experience flight delays in their upcoming holiday travel season. Top Five Airports: -- San Francisco International Airport. -- Salt Lake City International Airport. -- Portland International Airport. -- McCarran International Airport.