Choice Chains

What’s your favorite U.S.-based hotel chain? Hotels magazine put the question to 2,894 U.S. households in August, 1995. Below are the top picks in three catagories, ranked by the percentage of votes received. Respondents could pick more than one hotel in each category.

FIRST CLASS

Marriott: 44.1%

Hilton: 38.2%

Hyatt: 31.4%

Sheraton: 30.4%

Embassy Suites: 28.6%

Radisson: 24.2%

Westin: 10.9%

Doubletree: 9.1%

Clarion: 7.3%

Omni: 7.1%

MID-PRICED

Holiday Inn: 52.4%

Best Western: 48.3%

Ramada Hotels: 34.3%

Courtyard by Marriott: 23.2%

Quality Inns/Hotels/Suites: 22.9%

Howard Johnson: 18.9%

Red Lion Hotels and Inns: 9.9%

Park Inn: 2.2%

ECONOMY

Days Inn: 35.3%

Comfort Inns: 30.1%

Motel 6: 23.8%

Econo Lodge: 21.8%

Hampton Inn: 21.6%

Super 8: 20.0%

Travelodge: 20.0%

La Quinta: 15.2%

Red Roof: 14.6%

Holiday Inn Express: 12.2%

Source: Hotels magazine