Originally Posted by
PhillyInvestor
After a fair amount of travel, I've come to realize that the age of a hotel (or time elapsed since complete renovation) can be an outstanding proxy for expected stay quality. I would generally rather stay in a brand-new Holiday Inn Express, for example, than a ratty old full-service Hilton.
Are there any publicly-available sources for the construction and/or renovation dates of individual properties?
Exactly. I have though the same think that you have! I have solved the this by narrowing down my choices when deciding between properties and then googled about each hotel and tried to find when it was opened. Time consuming.
It would be great if one of these metasearch-engines like hotelscombined would implement "age-criteria" to their search.