Hampton Inn Properties with Outside Room Entry and Exterior Corridors
Nov 18, 2009, 3:50 am
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Hilton announced a few years ago they were dropping all hotels without interior corridors as the contracts expired. I have stayed at a few and all were sub-standard and about equivalent to a motel 6 but with the addition of those strange HI eggs or the HI sausage gravy.
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Nov 18, 2009, 6:09 am
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Although the Hampton Clearwater (FL) Central is motel style, it's the best Hampton I've stayed at -- recently refurbished rooms with nice finishes, and a very nice pool area with a waterfall and lots of space to hang out.
Although the Hampton Clearwater (FL) Central is motel style, it's the best Hampton I've stayed at -- recently refurbished rooms with nice finishes, and a very nice pool area with a waterfall and lots of space to hang out.
Nov 21, 2009, 11:47 am
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How many of them are airport hotels? I was used to finding these in small towns or in random suburbs (especially in "milder climate" parts of the US), but I was surprised to see that the Hampton Inn at Roanoke Airport has outdoor entrances.
I would think how much of a downside it is depends on a combination of whether you want to use hotel lobby services (eg, breakfast) and how cold/windy/etc it is (ie, how much you have to bundle up just to go from your room to the breakfast area). The morning I was at Roanoke Airport (it was during a mid-October trip up Blue Parkway and that was just the cheapest HHonors property that night at the right point along the way), it was quite cold, and I sure had to dress differently to go to breakfast than if it had been an indoor-entrances hotel.
I would think how much of a downside it is depends on a combination of whether you want to use hotel lobby services (eg, breakfast) and how cold/windy/etc it is (ie, how much you have to bundle up just to go from your room to the breakfast area). The morning I was at Roanoke Airport (it was during a mid-October trip up Blue Parkway and that was just the cheapest HHonors property that night at the right point along the way), it was quite cold, and I sure had to dress differently to go to breakfast than if it had been an indoor-entrances hotel.
Nov 23, 2009, 8:11 am
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Seeing people in their flip flops or worse and pajamas or NOT coming to breakfast. Hair in shambles, t-shirts, slept in shorts. YUK! YUK! YUK!
Glad you had to dress!
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Nov 23, 2009, 10:29 am
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Meanwhile, I'm not sure you need outdoor entrances to the rooms to have this situation. I don't know if there are any of these in the HHonors family, but the Holiday inn Anaheim 1 blk Disneyland has indoor entrances to rooms, but many buildings, some of which are not connected to the main building. So from some building people have to walk across a good deal of the property outdoors to get to the breakfast area. (Not to mention the long rebuild construction they had in the past year where the breakfast was in a trailer in one the parking lots!) Of course, this is Southern Calfironia, so it's rarely that cold. But rain (in the rainy season), that's another story!
In a rainy season, I'd rather have an outdoor entrance where there are covered walkways to the breakfast area than indoor entrances but be in a building where I have to walk across a large uncovered expanse to get to the building with the breakfast.
Nov 23, 2009, 11:31 pm
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Nov 24, 2009, 2:32 pm
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I've stayed at this one as well, and I thought it was pretty decent too. I remember getting a suite upgrade on an award reservation. At the time I think it was only 7500 pts/night too.
Nov 24, 2009, 3:55 pm
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I recently stayed at Columbus, GA airport location. All outdoor entries. Good thing; all rooms had a fridge and micro. I've stayed in several Hamptons and have never encountered that until this one. One good thing about outdoor entrances; you can see your car from your hotel room window. I would think that would slow down the car thieves and car burglars.
Nov 25, 2009, 12:08 am
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There are even some Hilton with some exterior corridors too... but they often face either the pool or lush tropical garden or the beach. One example is the recently added Hilton in FLL that used to be a Marriott. They have a building where it's 1/2 interior and 1/2 exterior corridors. Than there are those Hilton with no corridors at all and its just a path to a nice little villa. If the issue is people looking into the windows of your room, than most of the Embassy Suites would have this issue since the living room window look into the interior corridor that overlooks the atrium.
Nov 25, 2009, 12:12 am
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Nov 25, 2009, 12:24 am
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Oh, that sounds really good right now. ^^
Nov 25, 2009, 11:07 am
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There are even some Hilton with some exterior corridors too... but they often face either the pool or lush tropical garden or the beach. One example is the recently added Hilton in FLL that used to be a Marriott. They have a building where it's 1/2 interior and 1/2 exterior corridors. Than there are those Hilton with no corridors at all and its just a path to a nice little villa. If the issue is people looking into the windows of your room, than most of the Embassy Suites would have this issue since the living room window look into the interior corridor that overlooks the atrium.