Originally Posted by GrayAnderson

I would question whether Delta Hotels has a position in the market in the US. Most of those hotels are simply nice-looking Courtyards. In Canada, they were something of a "downtown corporate hotel" as far as I can tell, but the brand has no real identity in the US in line with that...

...but then again, apparently some overseas CYs are rather upmarket vs their US 'colleagues'.

Originally Posted by pinniped

As of now, I suspect most Americans don't even know what a Delta hotel is. I've traveled to most large Canadian cities and stayed in quite a few Marriotts in Canada and wasn't even aware that it was a brand until very recently.

On the plus side, that means if they really want to introduce it in the US, they have a pretty clean slate to start with.

Oddly enough, about 6-7 years ago, I recall several new US Courtyard builds, mostly downtown in major cities, that were starting to push into the near-full-service category. Full-menu, full-service restaurants open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, a lobby bar open late, and a generally more upscale feel to them. I'm guessing all of that has been reversed by now...