HotelChatter - Tag: Drury Inns

CHARLOTTE: Room With an Anti-View: Dreary Drury Inn in Charlotte

amandak — 2008-03-27T09:20:01-05:00

<![CDATA[You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Anti_View_Drury_Inn_Charlotte.jpg" class="imgborder"> Here's what you'd see if you checked into Room 234 at

St. Louis: At Least One Drury Inn Not Hating on HotelChatter

pbb — 2007-12-19T09:30:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/drury_screen_cap.jpg" class="imgborder">[UPDATE 12.28.07: Drury Inn's Tech Services employee emailed us to say that Drury does not block HotelChatter.com or Jaunted.com. However, in the Drury Inn business centers there is a Net Nanny software installed on the computers which can be "overzealous" at times and may have blocked HotelChatter.com. If it did, it was not intentional.]We recently <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/13/174455/03/hotels/Drurys_and_Comfort_Inns_Hating_on_HotelChatter_">heard a rumor</a> that some <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/drury%20inns">Drury Inns</a> were blocking access to HotelChatter. We certainly wouldn't appreciate that, particularly when we've praised the chain for offering no-nonsense, free WiFi. Well our tipster had the chance to revisit one of the properties that's blocked her in the past, and as the screenshot above proves, something's changed. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Drury+Inn+Union+Station/ian/130136">St. Louis Union Station Drury Inn</a>,

St. Louis: Could Drury Inns be the 'New Favorite' Business Hotel for the Fly-Over Zone?

pbb — 2007-05-08T14:35:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/druryinn_keys2.jpg" class="imgborder"/>We've got a pretty skeptical view of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Drury%20Inns">Drury Inns</a> around here, despite the chain's best efforts to entice us with free hotel-wide WiFi and budget-minded prices. But truth be told, we've come to count on Drury more than once, especially in the Midwest. And we're not the only ones who've stopped in at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Drury+Inn+St.+Louis+Airport/ian/130124">St. Louis Airport Drury Inn</a>. Basically across the road from STL, the hotel has a 24-hour shuttle to the terminals and parking deals that can't be beat. And it gets good marks from biz travelers:<blockquote>What a pleasant surprise. My company's travel agent reserved me a room at the Drury and I grumbled quietly as the taxi passed by the Marriott next door

San Antonio: Hotel Indigo Plans San Antonio Expansion

pbb — 2007-04-24T09:42:54-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/alamo_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"/>Looks like <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Yotels">Yotel</a> isn't the only "modern" brand that can go on <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/16/65823/6681/hotels/Yotel_Expands_Before_It_Opens">an expansion binge</a>. InterContinental has announced plans to open its third Texan <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Indigo">Hotel Indigo</a> in San Antonio. The new property has an ambitious opening date of "early 2008." The Hotel Indigo at the Alamo will take up residence in the Gibbs Building downtown, but it won't be the first hotel to repurpose a downtown building. The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Drury+Inn+and+Suites+San+Antonio+Riverwalk/ian/153700">Drury Plaza Hotel San Antonio River Walk</a> opened in a renovated Art Deco bank this past February. If the PR spin is to be believed, though, the Indigo might be a touch more classy:<blockquote>Hotel Indigo at the Alamo will feature renewable elements such as vivid murals,

How Do You Say 'Drury Inn' in Japanese?

juliana — 2007-04-05T10:55:55-05:00

Drury Inns are typically located in the "fly-over" zones of America, but Jaunted editor Davie discovered after her recent stay that, "OMG! Drury Hotels annexed Japan!"

Naturally, this got Davie very excited since she's been looking to go back to Japan. Then we noticed that she discovered this on April 1, and thought to ourselves maybe Drury is not so dreary afterall. They might even have sense of humor. But we noticed that they also annexed Guam, Manitoba and Mexico, so most likely they just need to switch their database back to the "Fly-Over" version.