Choice Hotels Adds 42 Properties In December

PRESS RELEASE -- Hotels, 1/14/2010 10:47:31 AM

Choice Hotels International Inc. continues to grow with the addition of 42 franchised properties during the month of December. The openings include hotels in 18 states and six countries, adding more than 3,500 rooms to the company's existing 485,000-plus rooms. Select properties that opened in December include:

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND —  

Orlando Vista Inn at Lake Buena Vista, an Ascend Collection hotel - Orlando, Fla.

Ideally located at the gateway to Florida's most popular attractions, this 246-room hotel offers an outdoor heated pool and whirlpool/hot tub, free continental breakfast, free wireless high-speed Internet access, an exercise room, business center and meeting facilities, lounge/bar, game room and gift shop. Guestrooms feature in-room safes, coffee makers and comfortable accommodations while select rooms also offer balconies, pillow top mattresses, in-bath whirlpools, robes and microwaves. This Ascend Collection member hotel is 100 percent smoke free, pet-friendly and supports green lodging practices.

 

Comfort Inn - Greensboro, N.C.

This 110-room pet-friendly Comfort Inn hotel features free deluxe continental breakfast, a seasonal outdoor pool, sun deck, business center, exercise room, meeting facilities, guest laundry and free lobby coffee. Guest rooms offer free wireless high-speed Internet access, flat screen/Plasma TVs, microwaves and refrigerators. Select rooms also include wet bars.

 

Clarion Hotel & Conference Center - Ann Arbor, Mich.

This newly-converted pet-friendly hotel, located just minutes from downtown, offers its guests an indoor heated pool and whirlpool/hot tub, free continental breakfast, sauna, business center, exercise room, hotel safe, free weekday newspaper, game room and meeting facilities.

 

Comfort Hotel Kushiro - Kushiro, Japan

Marking the 50th Comfort-brand hotel to open in Japan to date, the Comfort Hotel Kushiro features free continental breakfast, guest laundry facilities, valet cleaning services and free lobby coffee. Guest rooms offer free high-speed Internet, work stations and refrigerators.

 

Other Choice brand hotels that opened in December include:

 

Ascend Collection

· Inn on the Lake, an Ascend Collection hotel

 

Comfort Hotel, Comfort Inn and Comfort Inn & Suites

 

· Carthage, Texas

· Copenhagen, Denmark

· Kushiro, Japan

· Launceston, Australia

· Nantes, France

· Orange, Texas

· Ozone Park, N.Y.

· Porter, Ind.

· Selinsgrove, Penn.

 

Comfort Suites

 

· Buda, Texas

· Dixon, Calif.

· La Puente, Calif.

· Palestine, Texas

· Tampa, Fla.

· Whitsett, N.C.

 

 

Quality Inn, Quality Inn & Suites and Quality Hotel

 

· Bad Wimpfen, Germany

· Brooksville, Fla.

· Grants, N.M.

· Havelock, N.C.

· Matthews, N.C.

· Port Huron, Mich.

· Tucson, Ariz.

 

Sleep Inn & Suites

· Abilene, Texas

· Rogers, Minn.

 

Clarion Hotel & Clarion Inn

 

· Fremont, Neb.

· Kansas City, Mo.

· Mesa, Ariz.

· Strasburg, Penn.

· Texarkana, Ark.

· Tupelo, Miss.

 

 

Econo Lodge and Econo Lodge Inn & Suites

 

· Bettendorf, Iowa

· Drumheller, Canada

· Kansas City, Mo.

· Kelowna, Canada

· Kingston, Australia

· Nashville, Tenn.

· Wytheville, Va.

 

Rodeway Inn & Suites

 

· Portland, Ore.

 

 

Other brands within the portfolio of worldwide lodging franchisor Choice Hotels include Cambria Suites, MainStay Suites and Suburban Extended Stay Hotel.