Google is now showing the number of hotel listings available in the local pack for your searches at the bottom, where it use to say "more hotels." I tested this with other local packs and the categories of local search, be it florists, web designers, etc, all show "more places" without a number. But the hotel results now show the number of hotel listings available if you click the more button.
This was first spotted by Sergey Alakov, who else, and posted on Twitter.
Just a week or so ago, it shows more hotels and now it shows the number of hotels.
Here is what I see now:
Here is what it looked like yesterday:
The number is a nice touch, in my opinion.
Forum discussion at Twitter.