Originally Posted by
Jon Maiman
My experience with CP is limited to USA. In general, I have found them to be almost all very old properties with outdated designs. Some are maintained well within those limitations and others are just bad. It is one of the brands I avoid unless I know a specific property is a good one.
I agree with all of this in the US and I also have found the Non-US Crowne Plazas I've stayed at seem to make sense for what the brand is implied to be - an upscale full service business hotel. Only stayed at a couple (Tianjin, Amsterdam City Center, Hannover HBF, Birmingham NEC) but they were competent in ways the US hotels weren't. I think Hilton has a similar problem with their DoubleTree properties - sometimes they slap that label on a hotel simply because "this is a full service hotel, but it obviously isn't exceptional and frankly is long in the tooth so we don't know what to do with it - so we'll just try to carry it with the cookie marketing"