Originally Posted by dabears (Post 17273133)

We are contacting you regarding your upcoming Priority Club Reward Night reservation for the Crowne Plaza Cleveland, OH, arriving on October 22, 2011. Unfortunately, this hotel is no longer part of the IHG system effective October 7, 2011 and is now the Cleveland City Centre Hotel.

Originally Posted by A300flyer (Post 17318241)

Holiday Inn Caen, France Normandie seems to have gone, doesn´t find it on the system.

Originally Posted by nicolas75 (Post 17318712)

Now Malherbe Caen centre Hotel

Originally Posted by christianj (Post 17406860)

Just returned from the Palm Springs area and the HI Palm Springs (at the corner of Sunrise Way and Palm Canyon Drive) is now closed! I was told by a local that the hotel is evidently being taken over by Joie de Vivre Hotels. Never stayed there when in the area but I think the reviews were generally good and the hotel only had HI flag a couple of years after an extensive remodel.

Originally Posted by sdsearch (Post 15732300)

Holiday Inn Express Aneheim West gone 12/28/2010, now Magnuson

I was doing a search of Anaheim area hotels on the PC site today, and noticed this one (which I had stayed at multiple times) was missing from the list. I did a web search on the name, and found out through TripAdvisor that it has became a Magnuson. Apparently IHG corporate told someone that the hotel left the IHG family on 12/28, though the hotel was answering its phone as Holiday Inn Express for a number of days after that.

This had obviously originally been a conversion from something else to HIX. The rooms never looked anything close to traditional HIX rooms. They had older furnishings, and -- hardest to change -- electrical outlets in really useless spaces (thus hard to plug in a laptop, etc, anywhere near a practical work surface, even in giant two-room suites that I often got upgraded into off of cheap rates!).

Still, the breakfast was up to HIX standards, and the staff I dealt with was always really nice.

The location, though, was quite out of the way for most anything (a long drive from both most business, conference, and leisure destinations). It thus had to keep its prices very low to attract anyone that far out.

I presume this is part of the 700ish HIs/HIXs that were dumped en masse around the turn of the year:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/inter...ghlight=Choice

I wish we could just get a list of those 700ish at once, instead of waiting to discover them one by one.

Meanwhile, Magnuson has even much worse. They took over a complaint-ridden dump in Santa Ana CA (Civic Center Inn) that Best Western got rid of years ago! Perhaps their specialty is picking up any hotel dumped by anyone? :)