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Throwing the Phone: Some Lodgings Get Failing Grades from the Professionally Frugal

(% of consultants giving failing grades)

Motel 6                                    29%
Ramada Inn                              28%
Econo Lodge                            26%
Howard Johnson                      20%
Quality Inn                                18%
Days Inn                                   13%
Best Western                            7%      
Holiday Inn Express                  4%

Five Hotels Even Russell Could Love

While only one of the six hotels listed below ranked among the Top Ten Best Places to Stay according to our annual survey of consultants, all six enjoy a distinction any hotel manager would envy: They received no grades less than satisfactory.

Five with No Beefs

Club Med
Park Hyatt
Park Plaza
Regent International
Spring Hill Suites (Marriott)

Source: Consulting Magazine’s Best Places to Stay Survey, 2005

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