Sergey Alakov shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing the number of the hotel results in your search in a very prominent way, taking up a significant amount of space.
Google is showing the number either between the map view or list view and the actual results below it. Here is one screen shot but Sergey has more.
Google is very active about testing local and hotel search results user interfaces, so I am not sure if this one will last or not.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
