My excellent Industrialist stay and experience in late 2022 mirrors cubeman. Received upgrade, excellent breakfast (offered to make me an extra order to-go to use up my stipend), helpful staff and the hotel offered a choice of newspapers.

Hmmm.... Maybe nexus7556 experience was a one off. Will wait for more data points. Don't have any staycations planned in the near future, so have time to see how it pans out

--Jon

As an update on the Industrialist, they tried to not offer me breakfast - upon pushing, they told me that the issue was that the continental was a prepackaged yogurt and danish, so they would offer 1000 points (instead of the 750 for no lounge) on top of the 1000 welcome points. Apparently, �Corporate� had come this past week, and they are working to change things. As I was obviously upset (more so that they didn�t offer me the full set of choices initially), they gave me a different voucher, which I think is probably good for actual breakfast (will see in the morning).

Any recent updates on breakfast / upgrades at Industrialist?

Two recent stays in the Pittsburgh area:

Courtyard Pittsburgh Greensburg

One night weeknight stay. Very good stay. Everything fresh and clean. Felt like a relatively new property. Location is outside of Greensburg, on the west side, in a giant strip mall with a Walmart, but on its own side street, so it was quiet. Tons of free parking. They have a few rooms with usable balconies that actually include two chairs and a table, and a few suites, otherwise most rooms are standard rooms.

No problem with a Platinum 2pm check-out.

I had to drive into Greensburg proper twice during the stay. A little annoying to get onto the highway and down the hill, but workable. Crowd seemed to be mostly overnight business travelers to local businesses.

It's a long way to downtown Pittsburgh, but If I needed to be in this specific area again for an overnight, I'd definitely pick this place.

Courtyard Pittsburgh Airport

Friday night stay. Quite good. Everything in good condition, tons of free parking. Obviously this is an airport hotel but they also get a lot of business from the Air Force Reserve base across the street. I was able to secure a 3pm Platinum check-out with no issue but it required speaking with a manager. (Apparently they struggle when they have a huge turnover of rooms due to the Air Force requirements.)

Everyone friendly and helpful.

I had a balcony room facing the airport. With the door open, I could hear the loudspeakers at the Air Force Reserve base playing the national anthem and other military songs at certain points of the day. Kind of an unusual novelty... I could also just barely see some planes taking off.

I did need to drive back into downtown PIttsburgh at one point on Saturday morning. It's a long drive and can be pretty bad when there's traffic. Even on a Saturday, it was still a solid 20 minutes of expressway driving. (I ended up taking the local roads along the river for a change of pace.)

They do have an airport shuttle and proactively offered to drive me to the airport. Note that they are on the back side of the airport, so it's still a 10+ minute drive to the terminal.

I think this hotel is just fine for the airport area, especially if you have a car to park.

Had another good stay at the Courtyard Pittsburgh Airport (the one right at the airport, not Settlers Ridge).

This time, it was a full weekend stay on a busy weekend. There were two different football games downtown and the hotel was packed with people in jerseys. Kind of surprised they'd stay so far out of town but it was much cheaper and it's not that bad of a drive. Probably worth it.

This time, I stayed in a 2 Queen Bed Suite with a living room balcony overlooking the interior courtyard. It was almost too much space for one person. The bedroom and living room were distinctly separate spaces. When you walked in the door, it was bedroom on the left, living room straight ahead, bathroom to the right. The courtyard-facing rooms do seem to be quieter than the airport facing rooms, although my room had a connecting door in the living room and I heard quite a bit of noise one night through the door. (The neighbors didn't seem to like each other very much.)

Really good service from the front desk again. Proactively offered specific restaurant recommendations and made sure I got a delivery I had forgotten.

Still don't know what to think about this location. At different times, I needed to be downtown, north of the city, and northwest past the airport. It was equally (somewhat) inconvenient for all of them...

But I think I'm standardizing on this property when I'm in the area. I like the dependability, service level, and ease of parking/access, plus it's much more affordable than downtown properties.