Obviously, anyone who pays the kind of money it takes to buy a Hotel knows that maintenence and upkeep are part of the deal and if the original owner or last owner just milked it and then sold it off at a profit to someone who was impacted by NEW competition, etc… in the area, and this happened over a long period of time to a series of owners, the Holiday Inn people are within their rights and again, it is the franchisee who will take the HIT and his investment will not survive.

The saturation of the Hotel Market is just behind the saturation of the QSR sector and in our part of the country, the price wars are starting.

Apparently, the last owner of this Hotel isn’t making enough to do a facelift, etc… and is perhaps just trying to survive the bad investment that he made and that the Holiday Inn made possible because they approved him as a franchisee. Did he understand that he could be dumped because he wouldn’t make enough to dress up the dump he bought to the standards of the Holiday Inn?

Now that more people will be sleeping in their automobiles, maybe hotel prices will go down in the future —huh, Sean!

Coincidentally, there’s a Hampton Inn right next door to this Holiday Inn which will, no doubt, continue to do well.

I agree that Holiday Inn should be aggressive in taking action against those who damage the brand. Tomorrow I’ll post some of the outrageous infractions. It never should have gotten this far.

There’s no way you can compete with the Homewood Suites, Hampton Inns, & Embassy Suites of the world operating at this level. It’s sad, because this is a prime location and they squandered years of relationships and goodwill.

Apparently, some Holiday Inn (and Days Inn) operators can’t resist the temptation to milk the franchise for money by skimping on maintenance. Of course, that generates nice cash flow in the present but sets off a vicious cycle for the future. The shabbier a place becomes, either the fewer guests it gets or the less it can charge. Revenues go down, and there’s less available for maintenance, and the downward spiral continues.

I was once a fan of Holiday Inns but now stay at Hampton Inns because I’ve never seen one that was poorly maintained. Holiday Inn Express seems to be Holiday Inn’s answer to Hampton. These properties aren’t bad. It’s a shame that the Holiday Inn organization doesn’t put its foot down and immediately kick out those who even start on the downward spiral.