Originally Posted by
sdsearch
In the Irvine Spectrum (Southern California) area there is a completely exterior corridor Comfort Inn that looks pretty old (but has the standard Comfort breakfast), while half a mile away is a Quality Inn that's also looks oldish but has mostly interior corridors (but the corridor goes through a covered exterior section between what looks like were once two totally separate buildings (but has the standards Quality breakfast).
I'd say in that particular case the Quality is a bit nicer in overall appearance than the Comfort.
And I don't see how they could re-brand the Comfort to end up with two Quality properties blocks from each other. I suspect they've done such re-branding only when there we no other Quality properties that close by.
Meanwhile, another Comfort Inn & Suites in the OC with exterior corridors, near SNA (on Hotel Terrace), got rebranded to a Clarion a bit over a year ago. At the time, there was a Quality across the street, which at first un-branded, then with room remodeling turned into a Country Inn & Suites (Club Carlson program).
Update:
Well, it turns out that in the last couple months (since the last stay-based promo ended), the Comfort Inn Irvine Spectrum got deflagged.
But meanwhile, surprise of surprises: There was an old two-story, outside corridors Comfort Inn in Costa Mesa CA that got deflagged a few years ago, and became a BLVD Hotel (a tiny brand with only a few properties in the SoCal area). Imagine my surprise when I did a search on Choice the other day and found that this hotel is back to Choice as "BLVD Hotel, an Ascend Collection member".
Originally Posted by
jackal
Ascend - full-service boutique upscale
Huh? Like I said, a two-story motel with external corridors. It got refurbished, but it's not at all full-service, in fact, some people in the reviews complain that the free breakfast is minimal. (I"ll be staying there for one night in a couple weeks so should have a better idea.) So whether 's "boutique", I don't know, but I don't see how it's "full-service" or "upscale". The rates (other than when the nearby Orange County Fair is in session in the summer) are just a low as when it was a Comfort Inn (
way lower rates than at the Best Western Plus a couple blocks away).