Hi -

We agree on most of it --- OK room, iffy exterior & corridor.

I would say Red Roof + property tend to be a little nicer.

They usually run two promotions yearly - a Jan/Feb "Stay 2x, get one free" promo and a June-August "Stay 3x, get one free" promo.

They both work the same way -- if you hit the prescribed # of stays (as opposed to nights), they automatically top up your account to 6000 points, thus generating a free night e-cert.

I was saying that if you can get to 6000 points before the last required stay, then that generates an e-cert. the next (final) stay for the promo would then generate yet another e-cert.

Certainly cc spend would make it much easier to time something like this.