Guests at the upcoming Holiday Inn Express Baltimore at the Stadiums will experience a comfortable and smart environment with innovative preferred guest upgrades to ensure a productive stay while travelling for business or leisure. The Express Start® breakfast bar, a complimentary café-style breakfast bar features a proprietary cinnamon roll and Smart Roast® coffee as well as other morning favourites. The SimplySmart™ shower incorporates a proprietary Stay Smart™ Kohler showerhead, upgraded 100 percent cotton terry towels and a new line of cinnamon-scented bath products. And, beginning in April guests will enjoy the SimplySmart™ bedding collection where guests will find new crisp fresh bedding which features an attractive decorative top sheet, a medium-weight duvet blanket and soft 200 thread-count sheets. Simply Smart bedding is currently being implemented at Holiday Inn Express hotels across the country.

'Holiday Inn Express hotels are designed to be the smart choice for value-conscious business and leisure travellers,' said Verchele Mills, vice president, Brand Management, Holiday Inn Express. 'With nearly 1,600 properties worldwide and just over 400 properties in the pipeline, the Holiday Inn Express portfolio continues to expand in urban markets like downtown Baltimore, while still providing our guests with an enhanced stay experience at a great value.'

The newly renovated property offers a variety of amenities such as in-room refrigerators and 27' flat-screen televisions. Standard Holiday Inn Express guest rooms feature comfortable queen or king-sized beds, a sitting area with a lounge chair, in room coffee machine featuring complimentary Smart Roast 100% Arabica coffee. Business travellers will find large desks with ergonomic chairs, free high-speed internet access and free local phone and toll free (U.S. and Canada only), two phones with private voicemail and complimentary USA Today newspapers. In addition, the Holiday Inn Express Baltimore at the Stadiums participates in Priority Club Rewards, the world's first and most global hotel loyalty program spanning more than 3,600 hotels in nearly 100 countries. Guests enrol free online at www.priorityclub.com, by calling 1-888-211-9874 or at the front desk of any Holiday Inn Express hotel.

'More than $2.5 million has been invested to convert this property from an independent hotel to a Holiday Inn Express and we are looking forward to the end result,' said Eugene Morris, Jr., general manager. 'Holiday Inn Express is modern, fresh, clean and uncomplicated and a perfect fit for downtown Baltimore.'