Super Bowl travelers fill up Georgia hotels

<p>With the Super Bowl just days away, spectators, corporate guests and displaced business travelers have been filling up hotels in coastal Georgia.</p><p>The Super Bowl will be played Sunday in Jacksonville, Fla. But scarce hotel space there has sent many travelers across the state line into Georgia.</p><p>"We're full, full, full," said Nancy Hillis, concierge of Ocean Inn and Suites, a 36-room hotel overlooking St. Simons Sound and Jekyll Island.</p><p>A few bed and breakfast inns in Brunswick have had guests all week as have many hotels.</p><p>"We had a few early arrivals who came in to do the whole week," said Karen Bass, general manager of the Holiday Inn in Brunswick.</p><p>But the Super Bowl is an inconvenience for some guests, who faced a 70-mile drive to Jacksonville for business trips not related to the Super Bowl, Bass said.</p><p>"Some had business in Jacksonville totally unrelated to the Super Bowl," but their rooms have been taken by the game, she said.</p><p>Hotel space in Jacksonville is so scarce that to make up for the shortage of accommodations, five cruise ships moored in the St. Johns River have become floating hotels.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2866624)</p>

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