Originally Posted by
C17PSGR
Strange that they would flag as a Tribute if they wanted to compete with the Hotel Ivy. I tend to think of Tribute as something akin to Delta, meaning a full service hotel with minimal standards.
Seems like there are a lot of Marriott options in downtown MSP.
I agree, but the article said 4.5 stars, which would be a bit about LM or W.
Even before the merger, there were a lot of Starwoods in Minneapolis given the generally smallish footprint. Part of this was the general expansion before RNC (and then there was a smaller expansion before SuperBowl, but that was more noticeable in the suburbs).
By contrast, in the last couple decades, Hyatt added a big HP downtown, a Hyatt downtown (to become a Centric), a HR by the airport, and a HP over in St Paul in a renovated historic building to a downtown HR (built in the 1980s I believe) and two old suburban HPs.