anallawalla - 2:24 am on Dec 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

so am I correct in assuming Google rounds these reviews up for these places automatically from various sites and shows them by the hotel in question?

Google is currently running a trial to random users where a result includes ratings from citysearch (USA) and similar providers. There is a special tagging protocol and once we see it released publicly we will know if any site using those tags can be featured with that information.