ATLANTA | InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms announced today the newest addition to the Candlewood Suites portfolio of extended-stay hotels in Lincoln, Nebraska.

While this is the first Candlewood Suites hotel to be built in the city of Lincoln, there are now two Candlewood Suites hotels with more than 200 guestrooms in the state of Nebraska with the addition of the Candlewood Suites-Lincoln. The InterContinental Hotels Group portfolio in Nebraska is represented by five of its brands, including the upscale, midscale, limited service, upscale extended-stay and mid-scale extended-stay segments with 31 hotels and more than 3387 rooms.

Guests at the new Candlewood Suites-Lincoln can take advantage of the hotel’s just-like-home complimentary amenities, including high-speed internet access, free local phone calls, free on-site guest laundry and a 24-hour fitness center. Unique to Candlewood Suites, guests can also enjoy the convenience of the Candlewood Cupboard®, where a variety of beverages, breakfast items, snacks, frozen entrees and sundries can be purchased on the honor system at any time, as well as the Gazebo Grill where guests can enjoy cooking out as they would at home. Additionally, guests of the Candlewood Suites-Lincoln can visit the free Lending Library, where movies and music are available for use in guestrooms, which all feature a DVD and CD player.

“Candlewood Suites hotels are carefully designed to meet the particular needs of longer-staying guests,” said Gina LaBarre, vice president, Brand Management, Candlewood Suites. “When business or personal matters require travel for a week or more, guests find that the design of our guest suites and the amenities we provide allow them to live comfortably and keep a daily routine similar to that of home.”

Candlewood Suites guestrooms feature studio or one-bedroom suite floor plans with a full kitchen, large workspace with comfortable desk chair and overhead lighting, overstuffed recliner, VCR/DVD and CD player and wireless Internet access.

“Candlewood Suites’ unique amenities enable our guests to live according to their own schedule and needs, not the hotel’s," said general manager, Roland Morgan.

The new property is situated in southeast Lincoln just minutes from key businesses such as St. Elizabeth Community Health Center, the Nebraska Heart Institute, State Farm Insurance and Lincoln Benefit Life Insurance. Several area attractions are also close to the hotel, including Holmes Lake & Golf Course, Hyde Observatory, Sheldon Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, The Folsom Children’s Zoo, The Lincoln Children’s Museum, Star City Shores Waterpark, Westfield Shoppingtown Getaway, The Historic Haymarket, The Nebraska State Capital, The University of Nebraska, The Lied Center for Performing Arts, The Lincoln Community Playhouse, Southpointe Pavilions, The Lancaster Event Center and The State Museum/ Elephant Hall.

The Candlewood Suites-Lincoln is owned by Pioneer Hotels LLC and managed by HMA Hotels LLC, under a license agreement with a company in the InterContinental Hotels Group and is located at 4100 Pioneer Woods Dr. Telephone: 402-420-0330; Facsimile: 402-420-0306.

About Candlewood Suites Hotels

Candlewood Suites is focused on comfort, space and value. In fact, Candlewood Suites was ranked Best Extended-Stay hotel for the 2005 third quarter Market Metrix Hospitality Index (MMHI), based on 35,000 customer interviews, the largest and most in-depth measure of hotel, airline and car rental performance available today. Candlewood Suites also tied for the highest ranking in the extended-stay segment for guest satisfaction in the recent J.D. Power and Associates 2004 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study.

At more than 114 properties located throughout North America, guests find spacious studio and one-bedroom suites each with their own fully equipped kitchen, large workspace, overstuffed recliner, VCR and CD player, complimentary high-speed internet access and two-line telephones with voice mail. The complimentary fitness center and guest laundry are open around the clock, and the Candlewood Cupboard® is open 24 hours for snacks, refreshments, entrées and other necessities. Candlewood Suites hotels offer guests all of this at a very comfortable price.

Candlewood Suites participates in Priority Club Rewards. With more than 28 million members, Priority Club® Rewards is the first, largest and fastest-growing guest loyalty program in the hotel industry. Winner of the 18th Annual Freddie Awards hotel loyalty “Program of the Year” and named “Best Hotel Rewards Program in the World” by Global Traveler magazine, Priority Club Rewards offers more sought-after benefits and the greatest ease of use of any hotel loyalty program. In addition to flexible features like No Points Expiration and No Blackout Dates, members have more options for points redemption than any other hotel loyalty program, including redemption at more than 500,000 lodging establishments worldwide – even at rivals’ hotels – through the industry-leading “Any Hotel, Anywhere” reward, as well as the option to redeem points for airline miles on more than 40 partner airlines, for auto rentals, for gift certificates and for hundreds of products available in the Rewards Catalog. If the Rewards Catalog doesn’t have what a member is looking for, Priority Club Rewards is the only hotel loyalty program to offer members a Personal Shopper program that allows point redemptions for items not found in the Rewards Catalog.

Enrollment in Priority Club Rewards is free. Guests can enroll by logging on at , by calling 1-888-211-9874 or by inquiring at the front desk of any of IHG’s 3,600 hotels worldwide.

For more information or to book a reservation, go to or call 1-888-CANDLEWOOD.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. InterContinental Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 3,600 hotels and 537,500 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognized and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites® and Hotel IndigoTM, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club® Rewards.

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Monica Smith
770.604.5562
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