Steve Foley wrote:
Every privately owned hotel I have stayed in has been worse than any chain.

I've actually not found the privately owned hotels to be uniformly worse
than the chains, but I have found them to be much more variable. Chains
hotels are like chain restaurants. They are seldom great, but you
almost always know what you are getting. Private hotels run the gamut
from flea bag dumps to really nice places. The trouble is you often
don't know what you are getting until you get there. This isn't a big
deal if you can get a room elsewhere, but occasionally you have no
choice by the time you find out that you've reserved at a dump.


Matt