Plaza-Hotels

Positioned in the upper half of the mid-price segment, Plazas are mid- or high-rise full-service properties, typically with 200 rooms or suites. Features that Plaza Hotels typically offer include a fine restaurant and coffee shop, lounges, meeting space, swimming pools, Howard Johnson Home Office^SM rooms (with large, well lit work desks and computer dataports), exercise rooms and spa facilities.

  Hotels

Offer value-conscious business and leisure travelers quality full-service hotel amenities in a contemporary architectural environment at a mid-market price. Hotels typically include a restaurant and lounge, room service, meeting and banquet facilities, Howard Johnson Home Office rooms and swimming pool.

  Inns

Offer clean, comfortable rooms in a bright, contemporary architectural environment, at an affordable price. They are typically low-rise buildings with swimming pool, on-site or adjacent restaurants or coffee shops, meeting rooms, Howard Johnson Home Office rooms and ample free parking.
 

  Express Inns

The same structure and style as Howard Johnson Inns, but without a full-service restaurant. Guests are offered a free continental breakfast and may request a Hoawrd Johnson Home Office room.
 

    Howard Johnson Awards
 

  President's Award

The Howard Johnson President's Award honors those locations which exemplify the chain's highest standards of quality, service and community involvement. Hotels earn the President's Award through exceptionally high quality and housekeeping scores, achieving success through Howard Johnson programs, community involvement and other criteria.
 

  Gold Medal Locations

The Gold Medal award reflects our hotels' commitment to providing superior service to our guests, recognizing those locations which surpass our strict quality requirements. Gold Medal hotels must demonstrate their exceptional quality several times each year in order earn this award
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  Property of the Year

The prestigious Property of the Year Award is bestowed upon the best of the best, chosen annually from the ranks of the President's Award winners. The Property of the Year is recognized as personifying the high quality for which Howard Johnson has come to be known.