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Old Oct 10, 2024 | 1:33 pm
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bgriff
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Originally Posted by DallasEsq
It seems like a higher-than-normal proportion of W's switch. Is there any reason for that? I don't get why a hotel owner would pay the expense to rebrand to an Aloft or Le Meridien unless there were a very good reason to do so.
Part of the answer is that the W brand was kicked off in somewhat of a rush with on-the-cheap "renovations" of existing properties, many of them low end. The original W New York was famous for small rooms and thin walls, for example, and I think had been a Days Inn or something equally inauspicious before. So as the brand got more established and tried to move a bit upscale, there was a push to clear out some of those early properties that weren't in line with the later properties that were built more intentionally.
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