Apartment-style hotel brand stayAPT Suites has partnered with Aileron Management, based in Greenville, S.C., to develop up to 10 new franchised stayAPT Suites locations across the southeastern U.S. by 2025.
Aileron Management will begin work next year on its first two stayAPT Suites locations in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Savannah, Ga. Other properties in Florida, Alabama and the Carolinas are set to follow expanding stayAPT Suites’ growing pipeline to 11 U.S. states.
“We look forward to applying our expertise in hospitality, specifically in management, to the expansion of the stayAPT Suites brand,” Aileron Management CEO Jason Boehm said. “Our experience will be enormously beneficial to these projects, and the stayAPT Suites brand, from a strategic perspective. The stayAPT Suites brand is a game-changer in the Midscale category of the long-term lodging segment, and we are confident that we can deliver these new locations with exceptional quality – and at a terrific cost basis.”
Each stayAPT suite includes an open-concept living room with a sleeper sofa, lounge chair, and a wall-mounted smart 55-inch television. The kitchen has a full-size stove, oven, dishwasher, microwave and refrigerator; and between the kitchen and living room, guests can utilize the center island as a place to eat or work.
The private, separate bedroom, located down the hall from the living area, has a king or two queen-sized beds, a walk-in closet, a desk and a second wall-mounted smart television.
Each room features its own climate-control system, providing a quiet ambiance, while minimizing shared air with other hotel guests. Windows in both the living room and bedroom offer an opportunity for fresh circulation as well as plenty of natural light. And the hotel’s optional, mobile app allows guests to bypass front desk interaction with contactless check-in and digital-key room access.