Art, if you really want to know, the inn in question operated nothing like a modern one.  It was probably just a house with a guest-room (and space for beasts of burden).
No one knows how many "inns" Bethlehem had but, given its proximity to Jerusalem with its Passover flood of people, there may have been quite a few.
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> From: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 2005/12/23 Fri PM 03:40:36 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HANUKKAH
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> And a Merry Christmas and a Happy Chanukah to one and all.
>     There's one thing I have never understood:---
>     How is it that Mary and Joseph went to the only Inn in Bethlehem, and tried to get a room WITHOUT a reservation--on CHRISTMAS EVE??
>     The best to the best. That's all you wonderful shell people.
>          Art
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> ---- Jordan Star <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Greetings All
> > Everyone have a merry Christmas and a happy Hanukkah, whatever holiday you
> > celibate.  Christmas and Hanukkah fall on the same day.  Noel, Felese  Navidas
> > (Spanish?).  is there a Hebrew word for happy Hanukkah?
> >
> > Jordan Star
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