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Apr 20, 2012 | 4:19 am

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Originally Posted by nicolas75

Gene Kaufman, the "architect", is specialist in designing ugly cheap buildings and maximising the number of rooms by sqm (cf. the same building housing a Holiday Inn Express, Candlewood suites, and Hampton Inn hotel in NYC).

New York Times

Don't be so quick to bash.... I've stayed at the Candlewood Suites on 39th St. (in one of Gene Kaufman's three-packs) and at the Staybridge Suites on 40th St. (in another of Kaufman's three-packs), a few times each, usually on points. The redemption value, even under the new, higher points redemption, is excellent. For example, new redemption for Candlewood is 20,000 points/night (formerly 15,000), times $0.006/point (value using points & cash redemption) = $120 per night incl. tax. Hard to beat in Manhattan.

I'm not necessarily ascribing all that to the architect himself, but the fact that he gets the biggest bang for the amount of space probably helps. @:-)

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