Hotels That Move Around

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/K5kS786LQvC6gwi3A
Here is a Holiday In and Days Inn next door to each other in 2012.

Here are the same two properties in 2022.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4PoykZjYS8fojStc9

Notice the Days Inn moved into the former Holiday Inn.

What's even more ironic is that the current Meadowlands View Hotel ( former Days Inn) was previously another Holiday Inn.

How many move up a few lots or properties from their original?

[ilpt4u]

The MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip was originally the casino/resort/hotel that is now known as Horseshoe (was Bally's for a good while).

MGM Grand moved .75mile south on the Strip and has occupied its current home on the NE corner of Las Vegas Blvd & Tropicana for just a few years now

[freebrickproductions]

I believe the Hampton Inn I stayed at in Rapid City, SD, back in 2022, is now a different brand. Amusingly, at the time, the replacement Hampton Inn was very close by and also open.

[doorknob60]

In Boise near the airport, there's an old Holiday Inn right off Vista, that was still a Holiday Inn as of 2008 on Street View. At some point, they pulled out and it's changed brands multiple times, and is currently a Ramada and is very run down. The Holiday Inn moved a few blocks to the west on Elder Street, taking over a Cambria Suites. That's still a nice and well kept property (and there's also a Holiday Inn Express directly behind it, which likely confuses people showing up to the wrong one).

[CtrlAltDel]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/K5kS786LQvC6gwi3A
Here is a Holiday In and Days Inn next door to each other in 2012.

Fun fact: I've stayed at that Days Inn (the one that's now the Meadowlands View Hotel). I had a pretty small room with a view to the west.

In Boise near the airport, there's an old Holiday Inn right off Vista, that was still a Holiday Inn as of 2008 on Street View. At some point, they pulled out and it's changed brands multiple times, and is currently a Ramada and is very run down.

Funner fact: I've also stayed at that hotel. Well, kind of. There are two out buildings connected to the main building of that complex, which were spun off, in a sense. They each became their own properties, currently an America's Best and a Lotus. I stayed at what is now the America's Best while the renovations to give the building its own street entrance and front desk and so on were being completed.

[Scott5114]

The MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip was originally the casino/resort/hotel that is now known as Horseshoe (was Bally's for a good while).

MGM Grand moved .75mile south on the Strip and has occupied its current home on the NE corner of Las Vegas Blvd & Tropicana for just a few years now

And, of course, the original Horseshoe was on Fremont Street (now called Binion's, after the founder of the Horseshoe, Benny Binion).

[mgk920]

Long ago I gave up trying to keep track of all of the hotel/motel moves, openings and closings here in the Appleton, WI area, there have been so many of them.  'Musical hotel names'.

Mike

[CtrlAltDel]

What's even more ironic is that the current Meadowlands View Hotel ( former Days Inn) was previously another Holiday Inn.

This hotel seems to now be known as the Essence Hotel Meadowlands.

[fhmiii]

Many of the family and business hotel chains (Days Inn, Hampton Inn, Comfort Inn, etc.) operate by one of two models:

• Hotel property is owned by the hotel group, who leases it to an operator.
• Hotel property is owned by the operator, who franchises the hotel chain.

Not all of them, mind you, but enough of them that this phenomenon is fairly common.  Either the hotel owner-operator changes franchises, or the hotel chain sells the property to a new hotel chain with the existing operator going along for the ride.

Many of the high-end chains also operate one of these two models, but it's less frequent with more of the chains themselves being the owner/operator.

[SSOWorld]

Long ago I gave up trying to keep track of all of the hotel/motel moves, openings and closings here in the Appleton, WI area, there have been so many of them.  'Musical hotel names'.

Mike

The downtown Paper Valley establishment's been through many operators. (Now listed as operated by Hilton of all operators)

[SSOWorld]

I believe the Hampton Inn I stayed at in Rapid City, SD, back in 2022, is now a different brand. Amusingly, at the time, the replacement Hampton Inn was very close by and also open.

It's a "dis"comfort Inn.

[roadman65]

One of the things about Hampton Inn is some of the architecture of their four floor buildings.  When a new franchise or operator takes over the building remains the same. I once saw a Comfort Inn that by looking at it you can see was a Hampton at one time.

Same with old Howard Johnson's as many still operate today with the old building design and the lobby has that one building with the tile steep slant roof. Of course many of them are various hotels now as Ho Jo by Wyndham has new buildings built for their version of Howard Johnson not at all using the original chain properties.

[epzik8]

One of the things about Hampton Inn is some of the architecture of their four floor buildings.  When a new franchise or operator takes over the building remains the same. I once saw a Comfort Inn that by looking at it you can see was a Hampton at one time.

I'm a stone's throw from a Sheraton-turned-Clarion-turned Comfort, as well as a purpose-built Hampton Inn that replaced the original one at that site within the past half-decade.

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hhnSjoaBeL3cU3kB9
Former Hampton Inn on Old US 66 in Countryside, IL. 

I stayed here in 1993 when it was a Hampton. You can see the original design is still present.

[GCrites]

One of the things about Hampton Inn is some of the architecture of their four floor buildings.  When a new franchise or operator takes over the building remains the same. I once saw a Comfort Inn that by looking at it you can see was a Hampton at one time.

Same with old Howard Johnson's as many still operate today with the old building design and the lobby has that one building with the tile steep slant roof. Of course many of them are various hotels now as Ho Jo by Wyndham has new buildings built for their version of Howard Johnson not at all using the original chain properties.

I have a friend that had no idea Howard Johnson's used to be a restaurant chain. He only knew the hotels. He is 40.

[catch22]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hhnSjoaBeL3cU3kB9
Former Hampton Inn on Old US 66 in Countryside, IL. 

I stayed here in 1993 when it was a Hampton. You can see the original design is still present.

Here's another, in Cranberry PA (north of Pittsburgh) that's now a Wingate.  A new Hampton was built about 1.5 miles away, and both existed for a while but that changed sometime last year.

Old: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3tUUKrHVQFMys8Ly7

New: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RzzRp8QpKH5dNoTf9

[Big John]

One of the things about Hampton Inn is some of the architecture of their four floor buildings.  When a new franchise or operator takes over the building remains the same. I once saw a Comfort Inn that by looking at it you can see was a Hampton at one time.

Same with old Howard Johnson's as many still operate today with the old building design and the lobby has that one building with the tile steep slant roof. Of course many of them are various hotels now as Ho Jo by Wyndham has new buildings built for their version of Howard Johnson not at all using the original chain properties.

I have a friend that had no idea Howard Johnson's used to be a restaurant chain. He only knew the hotels. He is 40.

I didn't know HJ was also a restaurant  until I read an article on it.  The restaurant was more regional in the East while the hotel was nationwide

[GCrites]

He is from rural NE Ohio whereas I am from central Ohio. We had quite a few HJ restaurants but his area might have not.

[roadman65]

Ho Jo Restaurant started it all. The Motor Lodges came after.

[kphoger]

I have a friend that had no idea Howard Johnson's used to be a restaurant chain. He only knew the hotels. He is 40.

I'm 42, and I only know it used to be a restaurant because of Frank Zappa's long song Billy the Mountain.

[SectorZ]

I have a friend that had no idea Howard Johnson's used to be a restaurant chain. He only knew the hotels. He is 40.

I'm 42, and I only know it used to be a restaurant because of Frank Zappa's long song Billy the Mountain.

I still had more than a few around me as a kid. I used to go to one in Woburn MA all the time with a cousin into the mid-80's.

[kphoger]

Here's a list:
https://www.uniqhotels.com/moving-hotels/