Hilton Hotels already has kiosks in more than 170 of its Embassy Suites properties and plans to add them in all its domestic Hilton brand hotels by year-end.
SpringHill Suites properties cater to a greater percentage of business travelers than full-service Marriott brand properties, a spokeswoman said — about 80 percent at SpringHill versus about 55 percent at Marriott Hotels and Resorts, which includes the Marriott and J. W. Marriott brands.
The Staybridge Suites properties have a few two-bedroom configurations that accommodate up to eight, and that's where we like to stay.
A handful of new Cobblestone Inn & Suites properties opened in 2012, with more to come outside the oil region, she adds.
In June, my family and I stayed at a brand new, immaculate DoubleTree Suites property on 29th Street near Seventh Avenue on a Sunday evening and paid $107 (the rate was $119 with a further $12 reduction with my AAA or AARP card).
This Comfort Suites property in Williamsburg, VA makes no claims that it has a BIG on-site gym -- but the photo on the hotel's website does not truly portray just how tiny and cramped it is.
Besides the activity in the high-end scrum, dozens of brands compete furiously in several levels of the highway motel business, from the cheapest motel to the all-suites properties with extensive workstation amenities in rooms that appeal to business travelers who usually go by car.
The 400-room luxury hotel, with a 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-footoperty for the company, whospacasino, conference rooms, nightclub and restaurants have already opened in St. Charles.
Now, it is a 16-suite property set in two acres of landscaped tropical gardens, its kidney-shaped swimming pool rimmed with hammocks and designer sofas, with tanned, white-uniformed staff sashaying down bleached gravel walkways.
STICK AROUND, SAVE -- The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort, a 234-suite property in Longboat Key, Fla., is encouraging longer stays by dropping rates $10 each successive night on its one- and two-bedroom suites for multiday stays up to a week.
THE ROOMS Accustomed to absurdly cramped Manhattan hotel rooms, I couldn't quite get over how much space I had at the London NYC, an all-suite property, considering that my weekend rate was less than $400 a night before taxes and other surcharges.
