Any other hotels near or on airports?

So we've got three years of creating/running an aviation-theme-suite hotel
under our belt now, things are going well, and it's time to start thinking
about adding another location.

Trouble is, I'm afraid that our current location may be almost unique.
Here's what we need in order to duplicate our success:

1. A small-to-medium hotel on, or adjacent to, an airport.
2. The airport must be very close to the city that it serves. No
"out-in-the-boonies" airports, please.
3. The city must have another attraction that creates hotel business.

In our case, it's the University of Iowa that creates the alternative
business. (There simply aren't enough of us pilots to solely support a
hotel, sad to say.) In other locales, it might be a tourist attraction.

Any suggestions? We would prefer a warm-weather climate, to off-set our
Midwest location, and to prolong the flying season -- but we're open to
suggestions. (Ideally, it would be fun to have a southern hotel to run in
winter, and the Iowa location to run in summer! :-)

(Better yet, an Australian location to run from November - April, and our
Iowa location to run form May - October!)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Ah... you wanted warmer... sorry... I was thinking of a specific Hilton at
OSH.
Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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So we've got three years of creating/running an aviation-theme-suite hotel
under our belt now, things are going well, and it's time to start thinking
about adding another location.

Trouble is, I'm afraid that our current location may be almost unique.
Here's what we need in order to duplicate our success:

1. A small-to-medium hotel on, or adjacent to, an airport.
2. The airport must be very close to the city that it serves. No
"out-in-the-boonies" airports, please.
3. The city must have another attraction that creates hotel business.

In our case, it's the University of Iowa that creates the alternative
business. (There simply aren't enough of us pilots to solely support a
hotel, sad to say.) In other locales, it might be a tourist attraction.

Any suggestions? We would prefer a warm-weather climate, to off-set our
Midwest location, and to prolong the flying season -- but we're open to
suggestions. (Ideally, it would be fun to have a southern hotel to run
in
winter, and the Iowa location to run in summer! :-)

(Better yet, an Australian location to run from November - April, and our
Iowa location to run form May - October!)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Ah... you wanted warmer... sorry... I was thinking of a specific Hilton at
OSH.

Heh. I can't think of any greater financial disaster than that Hilton.
We stayed there last winter, and quite literally had the place
entirely to ourselves.

I suspect the only reason it survives is because fellow pilot Baron
Hilton wants it to.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I suspect the only reason it survives is because fellow pilot Baron
Hilton wants it to.

I suspect that you very well may be correct.

Jim

("Jim Burns" wrote)
I suspect the only reason it survives is because fellow pilot Baron
Hilton wants it to.

I suspect that you very well may be correct.


He is not correct.

I rode (and spoke) with one of the investors of the OSH Hilton - in his golf
cart. I was walking back to the N40, from getting ice, and kind of just
walked out in front of his cart while he was tooling around on the service
road - hey, I got the ride. g

This was the guy I was with, on one side of Atlas, while Jay and Mary were
pushing Steve and Jack out of their camping spot, a few planes down, on the
other side of Atlas. Final Saturday.

Me ..."Where's The Allisons this morning?"
Jay ...Pointing to them on the grass taxiway - "Um, there."

Anyway, he was a nice fellow - a little freewheeling, funny too. He said his
investment in The OSH Hilton is doing just fine. He said, contrary to what
people think, it's making $$$. The (very profitable) catering is one thing
that tips the balance.


Montblack

Anyway, he was a nice fellow - a little freewheeling, funny too. He said his
investment in The OSH Hilton is doing just fine. He said, contrary to what
people think, it's making $$$. The (very profitable) catering is one thing
that tips the balance.

Hey, I remember that guy...

Although you may be right (catering is incredibly profitable, when done
right), I've never met anyone who would admit to making a terrible
investment -- especially when he was standing in front of said
investment property!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Montblack" wrote

Anyway, he was a nice fellow - a little freewheeling, funny too. He said
his
investment in The OSH Hilton is doing just fine. He said, contrary to what
people think, it's making $$$. The (very profitable) catering is one thing
that tips the balance.

I would think that all of the other convention type things that take place
on the OSH grounds during the year, also help.
--
Jim in NC

Jay Honeck wrote:

"Chico Hot Springs"... north of Yellowstone National Park.
It "used to be" that you would buzz the hotel, and two folks in
pickup trucks would come out and block the road (road was marked
like a runway :-), and you would land and then taxi up to
your room. 4-star resturant, hot springs, descent hotel,
and cabin/room outbuildings.

I never did hear the story about why they closed the airport.

Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocation!" Eberhard

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CELL 970 231-6325 EMAIL jer'at'frii.com WEB http://users.frii.com/jer/
C-206 N9513G, CFII Airplane&Glider, FAA-DEN Aviation Safety Counselor
CAP-CO Mission&Aircraft CheckPilot, BM218 HAM N0FZD, 234 Young Eagles!

wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:

"Chico Hot Springs"... north of Yellowstone National Park.
It "used to be" that you would buzz the hotel, and two folks in
pickup trucks would come out and block the road (road was marked
like a runway :-), and you would land and then taxi up to
your room. 4-star resturant, hot springs, descent hotel,
and cabin/room outbuildings.

I never did hear the story about why they closed the airport.

Because some moron flatlander came in in his underpowered cherokee ****
box on a 90 degree day with a 20 knot direct crosswind and tried to go
around, crashed and killed himself. His estate sued. The hotel won but
decided to stop the landings.

Jay Honeck wrote:
So we've got three years of creating/running an aviation-theme-suite hotel
under our belt now, things are going well, and it's time to start thinking
about adding another location.

Trouble is, I'm afraid that our current location may be almost unique.
Here's what we need in order to duplicate our success:

1. A small-to-medium hotel on, or adjacent to, an airport.
2. The airport must be very close to the city that it serves. No
"out-in-the-boonies" airports, please.
3. The city must have another attraction that creates hotel business.

In our case, it's the University of Iowa that creates the alternative
business. (There simply aren't enough of us pilots to solely support a
hotel, sad to say.) In other locales, it might be a tourist attraction.

Any suggestions? We would prefer a warm-weather climate, to off-set our
Midwest location, and to prolong the flying season -- but we're open to
suggestions. (Ideally, it would be fun to have a southern hotel to run in
winter, and the Iowa location to run in summer! :-)

(Better yet, an Australian location to run from November - April, and our
Iowa location to run form May - October!)

It's been years ago, but I once analyzed the US for a place similar to
your requirements. In then end, Wilmington, NC popped up. Near the
beach, UNC has a branch there, lots of movie stars have places there,
much military presence including a battleship on display, interesting
area (Cape Fear). BUT, plan for bad weather. And, I think we saw most
of the town in the day we were there. We found one restaurant that
looked good, but it was closed that day.