Any corporate honcho can impress his management team into spending its working hours imprisoned in a generic hotel meeting room undergoing team-building rituals. But how many hotels can commandeer ...

One of the meeting rooms at the Chicago Athletic Hotel accommodates 10 people and costs $75 an hour. At the Kinzie Hotel, a boardroom for 14 is priced at $50 to $60.

For the second straight year, Orange County was home to the largest new hotel to open in California, thanks to the debut of the 613-room Westin Anaheim Resort. Yet despite its opening—the Westin ...