A Second Saudi Hotel Is Mysteriously Booked Up After Crackdown
- Courtyard by Marriott follows Ritz-Carlton in sudden makeover
- Saudis joke that princes, ministers being detained in style
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Perhaps the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton isn’t big enough to house all the well-heeled suspects being round up in Saudi Arabia’s anti-corruption purge.
Days after guests were booted out of the Ritz in a move apparently taken to turn the palatial compound into a makeshift prison, word came that the Courtyard by Marriott was undergoing a similar transformation. A receptionist at the hotel, which is located just across the street from the Ritz, said it had also been fully booked by “local higher authorities,” stoking speculation that the list of detainees was growing.