Originally Posted by lincolnjkc

It greatly depends on property as well as country but

- Embassy Suites properties are pretty universally two distinct rooms living room + bedroom with a door separating them. Bathroom and wet bar typically forming a bit of a DMZ between living and bedrooms but on the "living room" side of the bedroom door.
- Virtually all Hilton Garden Inn suites in the US are in the "shotgun suite" format -- no door separating living and sleeping areas but the bathroom and a "hallway" forming the dividing line. There are a few true "2 room suites" but I think I've found two properties in my stays that offer them, while most US HGIs have a couple shotguns. The "suite" I got at the HGI LHR T2 a couple years ago was a unique (to me) layout of sleep/bath/living but had a wall separating living from sleeping that was open on both sides. In all cases televisions, phones, and similar accouterments exist in both spaces
- Hampton Inn suites in the US come in two forms
(a) Recent-ish (past 10-15 years) builds generally all use "suite" to refer to a single large room (typically about 2 room bays in width) with a wet bar/refrigerator/microwave immediately inside the room entry door, with the closet on the opposite side of that wall, sink and bathroom (tub/shower, toilet) all lining the corridor-adjacent wall of the room. The television (one) is centered on either a dresser or a peninsular table/cabinet thing to be swiveled for viewing from the bed or couch (on opposite walls perpendicular to the entry). I don't believe I've seen a true suite in a recent HIS build.
(b) Old properties (specifically those predating HIS and HWS coming under the same umbrella (Promus -> Hilton)) are somewhat more likely to have true suites -- those true suites are also likely to have something resembling a full kitchen, however these are explicitly prohibited by brand standards in new properties and kind of disappearing in some renovations [One of my last HIS stays, for example, there was an area of the room that "looked" like a kitchen, had a full size refrigerator but no stove/cooktop -- however, there was a circuit breaker for a cooktop implying that there had been one previously. I haven't seen a ton of these and each one has had a unique floorplan so it's made staying in those fun.