Happy Birthday Holiday Inn
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.05.02 | 12:51 AM ET
The venerable standardized hotelchain turns 50 this summer. USA Today’s Laura Bly celebrates the old chain, recalling her family’s stays when she was a kid. “Sure, a Holiday Inn was predictable. Even mundane,” she writes. “But there was something oddly comforting about knowing that if you woke up under that polyester bedspread in the middle of the night, you’d know exactly where to find the bathroom light switch.”