There are plenty of vacancies at the Greenbrier resort nowadays. On most nights this year, more than 600 of the luxury hotel’s 721 rooms have been empty even at $300, half the cost of high season. One restaurant has been shut for a year after a major renovation failed to woo patrons. That would have been unimaginable when the historic West Virginia resort was among a few dozen in the U.S. with a five- star rating, and was a staple on the social circuit for the likes of Judy Garland, the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers.

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