IHG offers alternative design for all-suite brands

IHG Hotels & Resorts is introducing new design prototypes for its three suites brands – Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites and Atwell Suites. While specific dimensions and features will vary for each brand and individual property, the new suites prototypes emphasize space optimization and the potential for additional guest keys. Projected to be available for U.S. owners and developers by 2Q24, the new prototypes will supplement – rather than replace – current IHG suites brand blueprints.

The new options emphasize space optimization and the potential for new efficiencies while retaining key features from current designs. These options supplement – rather than replace – existing choices for all three brands and offer owners and developers additional flexibility to find the best fit for their market and site including new build, conversion, dual brand or adaptive reuse properties.

Staybridge Suites new Smart Studio room configuration offers developers the option to include a slimmer room bay (a reduction from its current 16’ size to 13’) that could comprise as much as 25% of the overall room mix.

Candlewood Suites Beacon 4.2 variation further optimizes land usage and generates new efficiencies through increased building density. With slimmer room bays (from 15’3” to 12’6”), the additional Candlewood Suites prototype offers the potential to add up to 12 keys on a similarly sized site.

Atwell Suites developers now can choose between two lobby configurations with a new one-story, centrally loaded model. An additional slimmer room bay option (12’6” versus 16’8”) includes a wet bar, sofa and work desk, and brings the potential to add up to 12 keys on a similarly sized site.

The first properties expected to feature the new prototype are expected to open as early as 2025. Currently, the designs will only be open to U.S. properties, but IHG said it will allow for potential future adoption in Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.

IHG has more than 700 suite-branded hotels open globally.