Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Comfort Inn Shady Grove gets updated branding and signage in Rockville (Photos)

The Comfort Inn at 16216 Frederick Road has updated branding and new signage. Gone is the old sun-and-waves logo. In its place is a minimalist "C" turned at an angle. I like this retro-style building. Although it's not apparent from the outside, the property did have a major interior renovation in the last three years, and is quite modern on the inside.
One plus of staying at this hotel - besides the convenient distance to Checkers, Red Lobster, Bowlmor and Burger King - is that parent company Choice Hotels is located just down the road, so you know the service and cleanliness are going to be carefully monitored by headquarters. From a nostalgia standpoint, I personally still prefer the old Comfort Inn logo - although it could hardly compete with the old Quality Inn logo, whose fonts and animation were only matched by the famous Holiday Inn signs that once lined America's highways.

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  1. "Although it's not apparent from the outside, the property did have a major interior renovation in the last three years, and is quite modern on the inside."

    "One plus of staying at this hotel - besides the convenient distance to Checkers, Red Lobster, Bowlmor and Burger King "

    Yeah, eating at Checkers or Burger King is always the highlight of my travels. LOL

    This is one case where a bunch of photos would have been informative.

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    1. Don't do drugs, kids, or you end up like this guy commenting above.

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  2. What’s that saying? ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a PIG!’ That’s the same awful hotel which illegally evicted my son and I on a cold, snowy night; simply because I had advocated for a homeless, mother of 5 they were preparing to throw out in the street. Choice Hotels didn’t care, neither did the Manager - Vera Safaii - whose delicate sensibilities I offended by my advocacy. To me it was common sense - don’t throw women and children out in the cold. MoCo Police were only too happy to oblige his illegal, retaliatory eviction, too. So, save the makeover, it won’t help that floundering franchise... And when (not if) they go bankrupt - we’ll be better for it, as a community. We don’t need people like him/them with their utter lack of ethics operating, here. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.

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