Originally Posted by
dtremit
- Hyatt Place is on par (pricewise) with HGI, with nicer rooms -- but only cold breakfast is complimentary for elites.
- Summerfield Suites is comparable in pretty much every way to Homewood Suites. I'd go so far as to say "indistinguishable."
However, there are not nearly as many Hyatt hotels as there are Hiltons -- so be absolutely certain they'll actually exist where you need to go.
- I agree that HP is on par HGI as far as rates, but HP has free continental breakfast for everybody, while HGI has breakfast for Golds and Diamonds (I would rather take the 750 points instead of the free breakfast and pay the $10 for breakfast for which I get an additional 100 HH points. Doing the math, that $10 breakfast at HGI gives you 85 HH points per dollar spent. It might be even more if I had an AmeEX card, but I eschew credit cards.)
- I find the older Summerfield Suites to be similar to Homewoods while the newer Summerfields have similar layouts as the Hyatt Place.
I find Hilton to be everywhere I go with a hotel for every price range, as a Hampton Inn, HGI, Homewood Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton, Conrad or Waldorf, with the HIs and HGIs available in the secondary markets while HPs and Hyatt properties available only in tier one markets.