Westin Tempe hotel faces foreclosure sale less than 3 years after opening. ( Arizona )

KTAR ^ | Feb 5, 2024, | BRANDON BROWN

[Labyrinthos]

Hall’s president, Mike Jaynes, said at the time that the Tempe hotel’s “premier location in this market” and Westin and Marriott’s loyalty program made the project “a great fit for our loan program.”

Apparently, he was very wrong (but still has his job).

[Labyrinthos]

“Hotels are getting too dang expensive for just a decent night’s sleep in clean accommodations. Less Westins and more better red roof inns.”

The Red Roof Inns in my area house illegal aliens, pop-up drug dealers, and ho’s. But if that’s your ting, go for it.

[TChad]

How the hotel biz works in 2024.

Thanks for the post.

[linMcHlp]

I should add to my reply 17 . . .

Testing your hotel room door

When you get to your hotel room door, and you open the door, be prepared to park something - a piece of luggage, for example - in the doorway, so the door will not close.

Make sure that one of your plastic door keys, is in a pocket on you.

The door lock mechanism should work, with the door open. Test the lock mechanism, using the other plastic key.

There are often, 1 or 2 lights that blink on the outside lock mechanism housing. YELLOW usually means: No Entry - Bad Key OR Un-Authorized. If entry is allowed, usually 1 GREEN, but an additional RED may also blink. RED blink only - Un-Authorized.

If RED and GREEN alternate their blinking, it can mean that the door lock battery pack energy is low, and the battery pack needs to be changed. If RED and GREEN blink at the same time, not a problem.

List of what may be connected to the hotel computer systems:

• all hotel doors
• infrared sensor detects presence of a person in the room - intended as a check/test for heating and A/C
• room thermostat
• room heating A/C unit
• TV, phone, alarm clock
• a portion of fire alarm system - signal

Some rooms have a safe - routinely neglected by hotel maintenance. Test, before trusting. The emergency key that maintenance would use to open the safe, is sometimes on the floor of a former hotel maintenance man's truck - somewhere not near the hotel.

[linMcHlp]

Guessing that an overload of promoted hype, resulted in tremendous over-capacity for occasions other than sports attraction dates.