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Ramada are a large hotel franchise organisation. they have many Ramada Hotels in North America and across the world. Where I live in England they are called Ramada Jarvis. They are part of a very large conglomerate called Wyndham Worldwide who also own Travelodge, Amerihost, Super 8 and Days Inn among others.

The Ramada brand offers a good standard of hotel on the whole; only some are excellent though their quality control is usually good enough to expect at least a reasonable standard; beds are always clean (in my experience) rooms pleasant and bathrooms modern. Some standardised features can be a little annoying. Every breakfast seems quite similar and it might be nice for their to be more regional specialities on the menus. Many Ramada hotels tend to have restaurants and they can be pricey.

Certainly if I were traveling somewhere unfamiliar I would be happy to stay at a Ramada hotel. I’d figure it would be at least adequate. To assist the discerning traveler further Ramada have coded their hotels by name, so you can have a good guess what you’ll be getting.

In the US they do it like this:

“Ramada Limited” is the name for the value product, but they say most hotels will have swimming pools and rooms are inclusive of continental breakfast. One example is the Ramada Cherokee in North Carolina – it costs about $80 a night for a largish room with wi-fi, cable TV, a refrigerator and microwave (gosh how odd that seems from a British perspective!), coffee maker and that breakfast.

“Ramada Inn” is the name they use for their mid-price hotels. Rooms might be more like $100-$120 a room per night in the USA and Canada, but you will get an in-house restaurant to add to the facilities of the other type of Ramada.

“Ramada Plaza” is the name given to their 4 star hotels and premier hotels. These are always great in my experience and I make a bee line for them, especially when looking for airport hotels in unfamiliar cities etc. They are also expensive, though reasonable value for money as you can still often get a room for $100 a night, but only if you try hard. They tend to be quite modern in their dcor and the service is good. They always have business facilities as far as I am aware.

Ramada hotels are nearly always comfortable, but as they are a franchise, quality control especially in far flung corners of Europe can be a bit of an issue. I’ve stayed in one that shall be nameless where the paint was peeling off the windows, though they’ve refurbished