Limited-Service Hotels

Rising full-service hotel rates have caused planners to look for meeting sites and lodging which are uncomplicated on the budget. Extensive numbers of limited-service properties mainly provide sleeping rooms without expensive amenities such as food service.

Extended-stay facilities are limited-service properties which offer residential-style units with multi-room plans and kitchen facilities to attract business travelers or those relocating. Jobs with training that may last weeks are now often booked at limited-service hotels near major airports. The meeting rooms differ from a small bedroom to a room with a fifty-person capacity.

Meeting space at limited-service hotels can be as large as one-thousand- two-hundred-fifty square feet, and is comparatively inexpensive or maybe complimentary. Full-service hotels typically charge between five and ten dollars per square foot for meetings. Limited-service hotels charge flat rates of fifty to one-hundred fifty dollars for day meetings, which frequently including morning and afternoon coffee and soda breaks. Rates may lower when groups book sleeping rooms. Most limited-service properties propose suites with two bedrooms and two bathrooms.