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Which regionals offer the best hotels?

Restaurants in the hotel?
proximity to restaurant within walking distance?
safe areas?
3 star quality?
exercise facilities?
free breakfast?
reliable shuttle service?

Mesa does.

Xjet generally provides downtown hotels for long overnights. It's nice.

All safe as a far as I can tell, everything else hit or miss. Some overnights are fantastic (long Chicago, Savannah, Charleston), some blow (Akron, Flint).

Mesa does. You get to stay at exotic and wonderful places like AmericInn, La Quinta, and Comfort Inn just to name a few!

You'll stay at comfort inns and holidays inns, hampton inns by the airport at almost any regional. Throw in a few doubletrees, crowne plazas and the occasional sheraton and that's the system for most give or take some exceptions. They're not about to shuttle us to the Westin downtown anytime soon.

I might be the only guy who couldn't spare two craps about where we stay. Westin or holiday Inn express...whatever. Once you get out of the lobby the rooms are similar enough for me not to care. Maybe a slightly softer bed. Maybe nicer towels. That's it.

Downtown or by the airport? Couldn't care less there, either. For the most part my overnights are short enough that it's not really worth doing something different than my normal porn/apc/Netflix/dinner with the crew thing anyway.

Do you guys get points wherever you stay? How much do you get? Do you have enough points that you never have to pay for a hotel room again?

Are you FFFing kidding?
You're pulling my leg right?
Yanking my chain?
You've gotta be trolling....

I'm at OO. The hotels are pretty good. Lots of Hampton Inns, Double Trees, Courtyards, sometimesa Crown Plaza, a Westin or Intercontinental or Hyatt. I only know of one place where we stay at a La Quinta but it's a really small town that doesn't have much else. Locations are generally close to restaurants and things to do, depending on the length of the layover. The one hotel that most of the crews complained about was recently changed and it is definitely an improvement so the company listens.

As far as hotel points, we almost never get to keep the hotel points since the negotiated rate is so low. A couple holiday inns and Drury Inns have allowed me to keep the points but other than that, no dice.

Shuttle reliability is always very good. When a hotel doesn't provide a reliable shuttle or no shuttle, we either switch hotels or else we get a third party shuttle. Excercise rooms vary in quality but almost all the hotels have them.

In his defense, this is FAR from the first time I've seen a regional pilot complaining/asking about these exact issues.

That's a step up from sleeping in the airplane! ;)

uhhg, that sucks.

Eagle stayed at the Sherry in Mia up until ~ 2011 or so. Probably the best hotel ever in the regionals. Topless FAs and $1 beers what more can you ask for.

Went with my gf on her overnight. She's mainline. Awesome location, kind of dumpy hotel tho. It's old, but take care of you and it's being renovated. It's 100 percent crew and non rev offline employees only.

I'm probably going to get some flak but why do most people hate LaQuinta? I know it's a running joke but they have comfortable rooms and beds, they're user friendly and consistant. I think they're a step above ComfortInn.

I don't have any problems with them. Good enough rooms and free breakfast.

I'll take a LaQuinta free breakfast over a $20 double tree breakfast.

There is nothing good about a LaQuinta breakfast.

I just stayed at the LaQuinta in LRD. Breakfast was eggs mixed with onions and ham, and frijoles con chorizo, plus bacon and other standards like cereal and breads. All 3 of us agreed it was good.

And a Texas shaped waffle maker!!!!!

the price. That's about it. I'm poor. I much prefer free to a 12 dollar (after discount) continental breakfast.

Don't we all judge hotels off the free breakfast/happy hour/dinner?

Those are my favorites. Plus, getting beach overnights or resorts are cool (Palm Springs, SLO, Monterey)


Some guys I know complain about the small crap regional city with 5000 people but those family run hotels treat crew so well. Those are my favorite. Very nice staff, free food, and if you forget anything just call down they'll supply you.

Forget toothpaste at a chain hotel? $4 in Savannah for a pack the size of my finger....

Ohh, I must have missed that!

You can't have stayed at too many hotels in Texas then. Seems like one of those things they must do or get kicked out of the state or something.

My company has us stay at a few... a couple of them have the WORST beds of anywhere we stay and pillows that are hard as bricks... guaranteed to wake up with a stiff neck and back ache at 3AM, unable to go back to sleep. One of them that has somewhat comfortable beds is definitely lacking in cleanness and housekeeping.

The breakfasts are very hit and miss. A couple we stay have fantastic free breakfasts, and at least one is absolutely terrible. No hot food, all processed and unhealthy cereal and crap, no fresh fruit... not worth waking up for.

If you're going to an airline for hotels, expressjet hands down. My friends there stay at a lot of nice places... Sheratons, Westins, places downtown with things to do... Laguardia overnights in Manhattan, key West in a Sheraton by the beach, downtown Montreal.... I don't think any other regional stays at comparable places.

As long as the hotel van arrived at the airport to pick us up, I didn't care.

Sandmans in Canada have the best beds

What's all this talk about breakfast, shuttles, beds, fitness rooms about?

The best hotel in our system is the Renaissance in PSP. The eye candy at the pool...now that is a great place to spend an overnight.

I take your PSP and raise you an SBP.

No way dude. Last time at the Renaissance PSP, the state cheerleading contest was in town. I defy you to top that...

So high school girls huh

Er, no. College...

That'll never top the Miss Plus Size Northern Kentucky pageant at our CVG hotel a while back. Hooo boy!