Originally Posted by
sdsearch
I'm curious why you jumped from 10K to 25K while skipping 15K?
Why would someone only be interested in knowing 10K and 25K but not interested in knowing 15K?
To me, a 10K list is: Where can I stay for the fewest points?
A 15K list would be: Where can I stay for the next fewest points?
Without a 15K list in the middle, I'm not clear what is the purpose of a 25K list?
Also, perhaps this is because of your UK focus, but once you get above 10K, there are way more brands at 15k (and also 20k/25k) than just HI and HIX. A lot of Candlewoods in the USA are 15k, and can be the most tremendous value in an expensive city like New York.
(Again, I'm just curious. I'm not suggesting that you need to make yet another list!)
Also, one thing in the statistics I'm curious about: Supposedly 700ish properties left the IHG system at the start of 2011, yet it seems your statistics saying "few hotels left completely" doesn't seem to mesh with that. (We had posts about how 700ish are leaving, but no one ever came up with a list of them, outside of a handful of anecdotes. So did 700ish actually leave???)
Ok to answer your question:
1>, There are more than 1000 hotels (or close to) in 15K category in US. So It would take a lot of space to put the list. It is twice the size of the 25K locations. I actually do have the list in my computer. But It looked so huge and I had a second thought. So if the hotel you saw was not listed in neither 10K or 25K then 89% of the chance it would be a 15K location.
2>, About the hotel left the system is strickly applied to the 10K list. What I mean by few hotels left the system was, about two dozens of 10K hotel had left IHG and you could not found them in 15K nor 25K list any more. However I have to admit that i lost account of then. But beassured that first the number of them were around or less than 20. Second the exactly number would be out when the table of analyses was done.