Talk:Drury Hotels

message: The hotels operated by the company are generally in the lower to upper mid-range in terms of cost and quality.
Drury Inns is in the mid-priced, limited services hotel category.  Their Pear Tree Inn line is in the budget category (maybe that's where the lower quality description originates). They are not lower to mid-range in terms of quality. Drury Hotels ranked #1 in customer satisfaction according to the Market Metrix Index for 7 of the last 8 quarters, beating Hampton Inn, Amerihost, AmericInn, Holiday Inn Express, Fairfield Inn, Comfort Suites, AmeriSuites, Comfort Inn, Best Western, Quality Inn, Howard Johnson, Red Lion and Ramada.  That's not exactly lower to upper mid-range in quality.
The Drury Lodge isn't resort-based.  There is only one hotel of that name, in Cape Girardeau, MO.  It is one of the few Drury Hotels with its own restaurant and banquet service, hence the different name to set it apart. 12.145.237.146 (talk) 05:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
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message: The claim of being awarded "the J.D. Power and Associates 'Highest in Guest Satisfaction Among Upper Midscale Hotel Chains' award for 11 consecutive years" is questionable. This was cited to the vendor's own site and doesn't match what's in the one WP:RS at 
Inherently J.D. Power and Associates is a market research survey firm, funded by the very companies they're reviewing. Drury has to pay J.D. Power to use this award in its marketing material. Furthermore, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch claims "Drury Hotels has won the top ranking among mid-scale limited service hotel chains for eight consecutive years" (as of 2012) "ahead of Hampton Inn & Suites and Holiday Inn Express." That's not the same thing as "upper midscale hotel chains" at all. A core-brand Holiday Inn is, arguably, an upper-midscale hotel chain. A core-brand Hilton is fairly upscale. That's not what J.D. Power is comparing. They're comparing Drury to the other chains' discount brands (a HI Express is something less than a core-brand Holiday Inn, like the Hampton is something less than a core-brand Hilton, even if the franchisor is the same). Entirely different beast, like Chevrolet vs. Cadillac (where both are General Motors). If this is "limited service", say so. The lede should identify Drury as a "mid-scale limited service hotel chain" cited to  in any case - it's a key bit of info. This place isn't the Hilton, but it beats staying at a Holiday Inn Express last night? OK. 66.102.87.210 (talk) 14:08, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Your dislike of JD Power is duly noted, but irrelevant. Instaurare (talk) 06:07, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If Drury is paying J.D. Power to use the endorsement on their marketing materials, we say so. If this category is just one of eight (and the other hotels in that category are Hampton and HI Express), we say so. This isn't an advert, this is an encyclopaedia article. We just want the facts. 66.102.87.210 (talk) 12:40, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  J.D. Power and Associates 

message: Should the information in this diff be included in the article? Instaurare (talk) 05:56, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no such consensus, but if there is, it would be against inclusion. A request for comment is not disruptive (your use of an IP address to hide your username is, though). Instaurare (talk) 03:17, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: @66.102.87.210 Do you have any links to discussions and/or decisions in Wikipedia related to this issue? Thanks in advance. -The Gnome (talk) 05:56, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

text: Comment - There's more to this. This was the management (and not just some random employees), she was imprisoned for eight days as a result of the false accusations and the American Civil Liberties Union was involved in taking the matter before the Iowa state Human Rights Commission. There's more to this than I could fit in a line or two of abridged text; see the original sources for all the ugly details. 66.102.87.210 (talk) 16:35, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, there is more to this, and in order to provide the necessary context surrounding this incident, it would require expansion with more details which would make it WP:UNDUE. The police found no evidence the women were engaged in sex work, so she wasn't arrested and imprisoned as a result of the false accusations made by the hotel employees. She was arrested and imprisoned for eight days because she had an outstanding warrant in Illinois for a $1,713 fine from a five-year-old credit card fraud case and for possessing prescription medicine without a prescription and because she gave a police officer a fake name and said she was from Ohio, rather than Illinois (which she has admitted that she did).-- Isaidnoway (talk) 17:45, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment