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Comfort Inn O’Hare Boardroom Suite Goes Viral

There is a funny travel Tweet from over the weekend going viral. Twitter user @eoincarrigan was put up at the Comfort Inn O’Hare after a flight cancelation, and was assigned a “boardroom suite.” That’s a cool name, but the picture of the room is priceless.

HOW IS THAT SUITE REAL?! To be honest, when I saw it I almost thought it had to be a joke, or photoshop, or something.

Don’t get me wrong, there are some hotels out there that have suites with large tables that could be used for meetings. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a suite with a conference table just immediately next to the bed.

Looking at the room types at this hotel, this does in fact seem to be real. Most rooms here go for under $100 per night (even a suite for tonight retails for $108).

But then the hotel has a presidential suite and a one bedroom conference suite, both priced at $949. Conveniently the boardroom suite doesn’t have a picture on the website, and for that matter, based on the above picture there’s nothing about this that looks like a “one bedroom” suite, as the room description suggests.

In general I can’t help but wonder what market they’re going after with either of these suites:

  • Who is paying $1,000 per night for a presidential suite at a Comfort Inn by an airport?
  • Who is going to pay over 10x the rate of a standard room for a room where they just stick a conference table right next to a bed? Wouldn’t you rather get a standard room and then rent conference space, which would still likely end up being less expensive? Or heck, go to an office supply store and by a conference table and stick it in your room (which is basically what they did here), and you’ll likely still come out ahead…

Anyway, I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard after seeing a picture of a suite, so thanks to @eoincarrigan and the Comfort Inn O’Hare for that!

(Tip of the hat to @SvelteRoosevelt)

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Jared Reeder Guest
January 14, 2020, 3:24 pm

I'm not sure why this is surprising? I travel for work as a consultant and have seen this multiple times during my travels. For example, the Hyatt Regency St. Louis has suites/rooms like this. Albeit, it's not available in 95% of hotels, so the average tourist/traveler probably would never notice that these are a "thing."

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Bubba Guest
January 14, 2020, 2:38 am

When you're interviewing for high-level positions, it raises too many red flags to fly the candidate to your HQ. So you send your committee out on a bizjet. Typically, the interview takes place in the home airport of the candidate. But with megacorps such as there are in Chicago, an exec can easily be spotted at the airport. At the Comfort Inn, however, the only folks from corporate that see this will be engaged in their own mergers and acquisitions, if you catch my drift.

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Iamhere Gold
January 13, 2020, 10:54 pm

Consider that this may be a dual purpose room. Because the flights were cancelled they used it as a bedroom but perhaps people rent it as a meeting room as well. As others mentioned, for some purposes it may be useful and economic to use as a meeting room. Reading this article reminded me that at some hotels in China they converted a couple of the hotel rooms for companies to use as offices. I personally found this kind of weird because there were still some guest room elements at their office and I wondered how much they were paying for such. On the other hand, they probably had a relatively long commitment because of the redecoration and other factors.

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Jason B Guest
January 13, 2020, 9:46 pm

They have three of them! Lucky, you should book them all and host a reader meetup.

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Soltatio Member
January 13, 2020, 7:19 pm

Could make for some interesting reviews if you specifically request odd rooms at hotels. Some chains give more freedom amd it can be interesting. Like the Fantasy Suites at the Best Western FireSide Inn in Kingston with their Hot Air Balloon Room or Space Ship Room.

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