Originally Posted by
LarryJ
How often do good hotels remodel?
Typically, it's every 6 or 7 years for a full renovation. Full renovations for rooms would be furniture, mattresses, wall coverings, flooring, and the bathroom (if necessary). Additionally, soft-goods in rooms (bedspreads/duvets, bed skirts, curtains) would be replaced.
Many hotels will schedule a soft-goods renovation (or even two) in between full renovations.
A full renovation for public areas tends to happen less frequently than full renovations of guest rooms because they tend to get less use. Since they typically require closing important sections of the hotel, public area renovations are avoided until absolutely necessary. (Closing off X number of rooms to renovate is easier that closing a restaurant or the pool area, for example.)
Of course, busy hotels will get renovated more often than struggling hotels with low occupancy. That fact can cause problems for struggling hotels. Many times, they can't afford to renovate because they're not making money...but one reason they have low occupancy might be the poor quality of their rooms.