"By the hotel" = "Beside the hotel".
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User_garyI am standing by the Atlas hotel.As in a photograph: very near, but not in the hotel and not on the porch.
I think, the "by the Atlas hotel"means "near the Atlas hotel", perhaps at the porch of the hotel.
Could you help me on this?