I stayed at that hotel 4 times last year, most recently in November. It's a long entrance drive from the main road leading to a compound, which has a hotel, res

I stayed at that hotel 4 times last year, most recently in November. It's a long entrance drive from the main road leading to a compound, which has a hotel, resturant, I think a Qatar Airlines office, and a few other buildings If you walk to the hotel, you go through a metal detector and a brief bag-search on entrance to the compound. If you go to the hotel in a car/taxi/uber, you don't get the first check, they instead give a cursory check in the car, but certainly don't open any bags. You then get to the front hotel, where your bag goes through a scanner and you get wanded, this is an open area (one side has a hotel-resturant patio, the other the bar's patio) Like most hotel searches, it's all for show, a truck full of men with ak47s, or even 1 person with a 9mm glock, isn't going to be stopped. I'm surprised they chose 3PM to launch the attack -- most residents will be out doing whatever they do at that time, and that seems to reflect from the fact the majority of deaths are locals working in the hotel.