Originally Posted by
Blind and Green
And I third this. If staying at the lowest chain brand when all brands are in a given area, I stay at Hampton, HI Express, Fairfield, and then Best Western. I've stayed at some fantastic Best Westerns, but there is just not enough consistency in the product for me to choose it without additional research.
There's at least one Fairfield in Anaheim that doesn't have a free breakfast (in fact, I don't think any sort of breakfast). And I once stayed at a small-town Hampton that had moldy bagels in their breakfast buffet.
So i suggest you not assume that all those brands you mentioned other than BW are 100% consistent and don't need to be researched. Yes, perhaps they're
more consistent, but not 100% consistent.