Originally Posted by
s0ssos
Apparently LQ went down-scale (I thought they were pretty nice years ago, but now they are pretty junky).
LQ still has some good options, but when they were single brand, they had a tendency to hold onto some properties they shouldn't, presumably in the name of maintaining footprint. I suspect that as part of the merger, some of their old and tired will get booted over to the Days Inn or Super 8 part of the portfolio where they belong, leaving the newer hotels as LQs and the ability to maintain better brand consistency with those.