ATLANTA—IHG Accommodations & Resorts introduced the provision of latest prototype choices for its three suites manufacturers—Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites, and Atwell Suites. By increasing design selections, IHG offers flexibility for builders throughout web site configurations and market sorts whereas sustaining the experiences visitors count on within the suites area.
The brand new choices emphasize area optimization and the potential for brand spanking new efficiencies whereas retaining options from present designs. These choices complement fairly than substitute present selections for all three manufacturers and provide homeowners and builders further flexibility to search out the most effective match for his or her market and web site, together with new construct, conversion, dual-brand, or adaptive reuse properties.
Particular dimensions and actual key counts will differ for every property and model however prioritize the retention of identifiable model hallmarks, together with in-room storage, kitchen area, and customary meals and beverage areas. Parts of the brand new design choices embrace:
- Staybridge Suites: The introduction of the brand new Sensible Studio room configuration presents builders the choice to incorporate a slimmer room bay (a discount from its present 16’ measurement to 13’). Engineered to accommodate shorter-stay visitors, this new room sort may comprise as a lot as 25 p.c of the general room combine. These visitor suites moreover have area via kitchen tools and fixtures and millwork cabinetry, whereas sustaining designated work, sleep, and leisure zones designed for a residential-style keep.
- Candlewood Suites: The Beacon 4.2 variation builds upon the efficiency of the model’s most up-to-date design launched in 2019 by additional optimizing land utilization and producing new efficiencies via elevated constructing density. With slimmer room bays (from 15’3” to 12’6”) containing a totally outfitted kitchen and recliner, together with versatile room mixes, and designated social, semi-private, and communal foyer working areas, the extra Candlewood Suites prototype presents the potential so as to add as much as 12 keys on a equally sized web site.
- Atwell Suites: Builders now can select between two foyer configurations for Atwell Suites properties, with a brand new one-story, centrally loaded mannequin accessible alongside the present two-story end-loaded design whereas sustaining work, lounge, bar, and eating areas. An extra slimmer room bay choice (12’6” versus 16’8”) features a moist bar, couch, and work desk, and brings the potential so as to add as much as 12 keys on a equally sized web site.
Kevin Schramm, senior vice chairman of improvement, mainstream manufacturers—U.S. and Canada at IHG, mentioned, “IHG continues to construct on our almost three many years of management within the prolonged keep and suites area by evolving our prototype designs to extend proprietor worth whereas providing the areas and facilities short- and long-term vacationers worth most. Our new ideas replicate visitor and proprietor suggestions and allow new and present homeowners to ship our trendy suite experiences—in varied types—to extra markets with out compromising consistency or high quality.
The brand new prototype choices might be accessible by Q2 2024, with the primary properties to characteristic them anticipated to open as early as 2025. At the moment, the designs will solely be open to U.S. properties however enable for potential future adoption in Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
With greater than 700 open international properties—almost all within the Americas—for its three suites manufacturers, Staybridge Suites celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary final December, whereas 2023 openings in Salt Lake Metropolis and Houston expanded the attain of Candlewood Suites to greater than 520 open or pipeline Americas inns since its 1996 debut. Atwell Suites opened its third U.S. property in Austin, Texas, earlier this month, becoming a member of inns in Denver and Miami.
