Necessary Roughness

This Holiday Inn Express maintains the consistency of the franchise.

We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Richfield, OH. Although I spent points for a normal room for two nights, they upgraded us to a “suite,” which is a room-and-a-half.
The two queen beds were new yet soft, and I felt a little comfortable sleeping on the edge of the mattress as a Dad has [...]

Wanting a change from the normal hotel routine, I stayed at the Residence Inn Bakersfield, a Marriott property. The Residence Inn is an extended stay chain, and general comments about extended stays have been posted previously.
Rooms are organized in buildings of two floors, four rooms per floor. My room was twice the size of a [...]

Thursday night or Friday you will see a Hotel Report about the place I am staying in, which is an extended stay hotel. You’ll get the specifics then, but the general differences deserve a post of their own.
I usually do not like extended stay hotels. Housekeeping usually doesn’t make the bed every day or take [...]

I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express during my stay in Woodland, CA, just outside of Sacramento.
I was upgraded to a king suite, which was really one large room instead of two rooms. There was plenty of room for a couch, coffee table, and a kitchenette with a refrigerator and microwave. The 30″ TV had [...]