What I always find bizarro about Embassy Suites is their sameness. When staying at this chain, I find that so many of their properties seem identical. It's almost frightening.
The basic concept is a two-room suite, with all rooms exiting into a central internal walkway that forms a square around a central atrium. Usually large plants mysteriously grow from the ground level, giving the false impression that the hotel was simply built around the pre-existing tropical foliage. While most Embassy Suites' tropical forests are under a roof, I remember the one in Buena Park, California that had an open-air atrium rather than one under a roof.
Embassy Suites' other memorable distinction is their breakfast buffet with cooked-to-order eggs and omelets. Other hotel chains have since adopted this amenity, but few others have created the all-encompassing multi-floor cooked bacon aroma that Embassy Suites possesses each morning.
I can recall a couple distinct Embassy Suites, including the one I stayed at this week in Austin. This Embassy Suites has a small pond in the atrium, complete with enormous koi fish and these two Royal Swans, two brothers named Butch and Sundance. The swans are pretty large, and seem perfectly content swimming back and forth all day, creating an oddly surreal welcome for guests.
Texas has some pretty crappy Embassy Suites (San Antonio, McAllen), but this one here in Austin / Arboretum is one of the nicer ones I've stayed in.
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