Originally Posted by
jebr
- Econo Lodges have at least some breakfast available, at least pre-pandemic. Rodeways may only have coffee available, but not even a muffin or snack bar for breakfast.
But some Rodeways have a better breakfast than some EconoLodges. So with both you have to check the reviews to try to figure out if the breakfast will be acceptable to you.
Originally Posted by
jebr
While they have a lot in common, I've found a few major differences:
- Rodeways seem to have whatever the hotel owner decided to buy, without any requirement from Choice on what that look like. [...]
- Rodeway seems to be purely a conversion brand, and aimed at property owners who don't want to have to worry about particular brand standards but want to be part of a chain.
How is that different then from the lower-end (two-story motels) of the Ascend Collection brand? I know of a former two-story-exterior-corridor-no-elevator Comfort Inn that wasn't particularly up to Comfort Inn standards, that was refurbished into an indie hotel that then later became part of Choice's Ascend Collection, I think just because of artwork showing surfers in every room (this motel is a few miles from California beaches).