Wyndham hotels and resorts

Wyndham is the biggest hotel company in the world by a measure most people never think about: sheer number of properties. More than 8,300 of them, in around 100 countries, and the trick is that almost all of them wear names you already know. You have probably stayed with Wyndham without once thinking the word Wyndham.

That is because the group owns the workhorses of the road. Super 8, Days Inn, Travelodge, Ramada, Howard Johnson, the signs that mean a bed and a hot shower are close, whatever exit you take. It is an enormous and genuinely useful corner of the business, and Wyndham runs more of it than anyone.

Look up, though, and the range surprises people. Wyndham Grand and the Registry and Trademark collections cover the upscale end, and the group has quietly built a real sun presence too. Its own Wyndham Alltra all-inclusive resorts and the Viva by Wyndham resorts sit in Punta Cana, Samana and the Riviera Maya, often at approachable prices.

So Wyndham is less one thing than a very wide net. A road-trip motel and a beach resort under the same roof feels like a contradiction until you notice the through-line: dependable value, wherever you happen to be pointing the car, or the plane.