Summerfield Suites was an
extended stay hotel
An apartment hotel or aparthotel (also residential hotel or extended-stay hotel) is a serviced apartment complex that uses a hotel-style booking system. It is similar to renting an apartment, but with no fixed contracts and occupants can "che ...
chain. It was bought by
Hyatt
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational corporation, multinational hospitality company headquartered in the 150 North Riverside, Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchise ...
and folded within that company in 2012. All Summerfield Suites Hotels are now branded as
Hyatt House hotels.
History
In June 2005, the
Blackstone Group
Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who had previously worked together at Lehman ...
acquired
Wyndham International for $3.2 billion. Summerfield Suites, Wyndham's extended-stay offering, was included in the deal. On December 1, 2005, Global Hyatt confirmed that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the 21-hotel Summerfield Suites brand from Blackstone for an undisclosed price. The deal concluded in early 2006, and closely followed Hyatt's acquisition of
AmeriSuites – now re-branded as
Hyatt Place. It took AmeriSuites' former position in the Hyatt lineup and competed in the upscale tier of the extended-stay market with
Residence Inn,
Homewood Suites, and
Staybridge Suites.
Global Hyatt then developed an extended-stay prototype for converting Summerfield Suites hotels to a new Hyatt-branded extended-stay product. The new offering provides fully equipped 1 and 2 bedroom suites, a free hot breakfast buffet, an outdoor BBQ area, 24-hour
convenience store
A convenience store, convenience shop, bakkal, bodega, corner store, corner shop, superette or mini-mart is a small retail store that stocks a range of everyday items such as convenience food, groceries, beverages, tobacco products, lotter ...
, movie rental, dry cleaning and recreational facilities. However, Summerfield Suites targeted both the extended-stay market as well as the group travel market. The first location opened in 1990.
The hotels operated as ''Hyatt Summerfield Suites'' until 2012, when the chain was folded into
Hyatt House, a then new division of Hyatt incorporating these hotels, as well as the former ''Sierra Hotels'', which had also been bought by Hyatt. The Hyatt House name was a nod to the original name of the entire chain in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was called Hyatt House Hotels.
References
External links
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
{{hotel chains
Defunct hotel chains
Extended stay hotel chains
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
Defunct companies based in Chicago