Days Inn is accepting applications for what it calls the hottest summer travel gig. It’s certainly a creative idea, it pays quite well, and it comes with top-tier elite status, though you are tasked with making your Days Inn stays look good, so…
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Trying to make a positive social media spin on a reflagged 1960s Holiday Inn turned Days Inn with a quarter of guests being permanent will be a feat in itself, haha!
Sadly, this will be filled by someone who is already an "influencer". Zero chance that they are really going to take someone who submits an application. Reminds me of this popular Hawaiian smoothie chain that had posted a competition for whoever guessed the newest location would get a trip to Hawaii to document the new opening. A "winner" was chosen, and some internet sleuths found out the person who won was a friend of the owner and already was LIVING in Hawaii. I know it sounds silly, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Really, Days Inn?
The requirements should be at least 50 years old, which is about the age of most Days Inn.
And who promises a glowing recommendation even before the internship starts.
What Wyndham should do is differentiate their brands, all their budget brands seems interchangeable.
As far as I've stayed, every Days Inn can be a HoJo or Travelodge, nicer ones can be a La Quinta or Ramada. Change the logo and you can reflag the entire property in 12 hours.
I had never stayed at a Days Inn before last summer. We were on a roadtrip around the country and on July 4th, we were driving east across the Texas panhandle towards Oklahoma city. We hadn't planned on traveling that day but plans changed so we just looked at accommodations in/near OKC on our way there. There was a bad combination of tons of places being closed due to COVID, some sort of convention happening in the city (weird during COVID), and July 4th, we were shocked out how high hotel rates were. We figured it would only be a few hours in the room anyway so booked a Days Inn just off the highway, about 15 mins from downtown. HUGE mistake. It was so far and away the most disgusting place I have ever set foot in.
I've backpacked all around the world, stayed in hostels (guilty pleasure. I love them just as much as I love my Belmond's etc.), but this place was next level. Everything was SO beyond gross and dirty that we couldn't help but laugh like it was out of a bad movie. We ended up sleeping in the car - only night it happened in 3 months of driving.
Their marketing is clearly working. Days Inn just got a free plug on your blog haha
Are you applying, Lucky? You're already a travel writer, might as well score yourself Wyndham Diamond status for a year and some exposure for OMAAT.