While I'd rather stay in a SHS, FS or Ren, sometimes CY is the best choice. Usually it's a price or location issue. In the past few years, though, I've stayed in some good CYs. Most are the newer style, some are renovated. I've probably stayed in more bad CYs.

Here's the off-the-top-of-my-bald-head list of the good properties:

- SF Downtown - a little out of the way, but a nice property.
- Altoona - For some reason, it's really nice. If all CYs were like this, we wouldn't have this thread.
- Weston, FL - Restaraunt on site, nice hotel.
- Schaumberg, IL - Kinda cool vibe. Nice staff.
- Miami Lakes - now that the renovations are finally done...
- Jacksonville Beach - it's on the beach, with easy access, a bar/rest.
- Carolina Beach - every room has a balcony on the beach. Nice people. Well maintained property.
- Ft. Lauderdale East - It's an old dump in a horrible location, but it's clean and convenient to where I need to be. Despite my first sentence, I love this hotel for some reason!
- Miami Beach - It's on the beach, has a Carraba or something in the lobby.
- Bellevue, WA - It's swank. The breakfast is overpriced, but it's the best choice in this Seattle suburb.
- Charlotte Downtown - Great location. You can walk to everything in downtown Charlotte.
- Orlando Downtown - It's a pretty normal highrise CY, but it's always so much less expensive than anything else in the area. It's real near some funky neighborhoods with great places to eat and shop. Not the kind of chain/Disney places you think of with Orlando.
- Dallas Downtown - not what you would expect locationwise from downtown Dallas, and that's a good thing.
- Milwaukee Downtown - historic old building right on a city square/park, nice staff and it's attached to a small mall.
- Burlington, VT, Harbor Nice hotel, nice views, nice area.
- Toronto - a little removed from downtown, it's more like a well-aged relic than a modern CY.
- Watertown, NY - Funky renovated older hotel, with restaurant on site.

Wow, it's a longer list than I expected...

To be avoided at all costs:
- Wilmington, NC - Yuck. That says it all.
- Charlotte Arrowood Meh. Not a good location.
- Whichever property is in SC just south of CLT near the amusement park - Pitch a tent on the highway. It will be less noisy.
- Austin at the highway split - If you're going to rebadge a Holiday Inn, do some upgrades.
- Wilmington, NC - In case you missed it earlier on my list.
- Augusta, GA - Everything that's old and dated with CY is on display here.