Originally Posted by
mstan
I'm staying at one after many many years, and it has not changed a single bit. This brand desperately needs a major remodel / gutting / update of the rooms to bring them up to date. It used to be nice but feels so tired now.
The Hilton Garden Inn in [city, state, country] could use a refresh.
There are new HGIs and there are older HGIs, just like there are new and old hotels of all brands. Nobody builds a brand new hotel and puts in 20-year old fixtures, furniture, etc. But equally... no hotel owner is forced to tear down and rebuild a perfectly useful hotel just because somebody thinks it's getting a bit old. They simply accept a deterioration in the rate they can charge.
The brand is basically irrelevant, except occasionally where it reveals a hotel chain that can't be bothered to hold its franchisees to brand standards.