"There will be a tremendous amount of interest," Dennis Reed,regional vice president for the Tampa, FL-based Plasencia GroupInc., predicts to GlobeSt.com. "There are niche buyers out therewho are looking to position themselves in certain markets."

Intercontinental Hotels Group of Washington, DC is the managerof each property, operating the flagged assets under a contractwith a cancellation clause that FelCor decided to enforce in late2003 by hanging "for sale" tickets on the holdings, Reed says.Under the IHG-FelCor pact, all flags will be lowered at trade timealthough they are good for another two to five years, he explains.The four-state package, which can be bought as a portfolio orcherry-picked, is all about location.

The 530-room Holiday Inn Nikki Bird Hotel is the closestfacility to the Kissimmee, FL gate of Disney World, which getsreferrals in a good neighbor relationship when the "Kingdom" isreaching capacity levels. The 408-room Holiday Inn Busch Gardens,neighboring Tampa's popular amusement park, is across Fowler Avenuefrom University Mall, near the University of South Florida andwithin blocks of the VA Hospital and Moffitt Cancer Center.