IHG Motels & Resorts (IHG), immediately proclaims the supply of recent prototype choices for its three suites manufacturers – Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites and Atwell Suites. By increasing design alternative, IHG offers better flexibility for builders throughout a variety of web site configurations and market sorts whereas additionally sustaining the experiences friends count on within the quickly rising suites house.
The brand new choices emphasize house optimization and the potential for brand new efficiencies whereas retaining key options from present designs. These choices complement – relatively than exchange – present decisions for all three manufacturers, and provide homeowners and builders extra flexibility to seek out one of the best match for his or her market and web site together with new construct, conversion, twin model or adaptive reuse properties.
Particular dimensions and actual key counts will fluctuate for every property and model, however prioritize the retention of identifiable and guest-loved model hallmarks, together with ample in-room storage and kitchen house and customary meals and beverage areas. Notable parts of the brand new design choices embrace:
- Staybridge Suites: The introduction of the brand new Sensible Studio room configuration gives builders the choice to incorporate a slimmer room bay (a discount from its present 16’ dimension to 13’). Engineered to accommodate shorter-stay friends, this new room kind might comprise as a lot as 25 p.c of the general room combine. These visitor suites moreover right-size house by means of streamlined kitchen gear and fixtures and optimized millwork cabinetry, whereas sustaining designated work, sleep and rest zones designed for a snug, residential-style keep.
- Candlewood Suites: The Beacon 4.2 variation builds upon the robust efficiency of the model’s most up-to-date design launched in 2019 by additional optimizing land utilization and producing new efficiencies by means of elevated constructing density. With slimmer room bays (from 15’3” to 12’6”) containing a completely geared up kitchen and signature recliner, together with versatile room mixes, and designated social, semi-private and communal foyer working areas, the extra Candlewood Suites prototype gives 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 obtainable alongside the present two-story finish loaded design whereas sustaining versatile work, lounge, and bar and eating areas. A further slimmer room bay possibility (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, SVP of Improvement, Mainstream Manufacturers – U.S. and Canada at IHG, stated: “IHG continues to construct on our practically three a long time of management within the prolonged keep and suites house 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 fashionable suite experiences – in numerous varieties – to extra markets with out compromising consistency or high quality.”
The brand new prototype choices will probably be obtainable by Q2 2024, with the primary properties to function them anticipated to open as early as 2025. Presently, the designs will solely be open to U.S. properties, however permit for potential future adoption in Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.
With greater than 700 open international properties* – practically all within the Americas – for its three suites manufacturers, IHG stays a confirmed section chief. Staybridge Suites celebrated its 25th 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.
