WINGATE INN® HOTEL OPENS FOR BUSINESS IN SAVANNAH, GA (2/00)

Business and leisure travelers to the Savannah, GA, area will find advanced in-room telecommunications such as free high-speed Internet access, comfortable amenities and a 100% stisfaction guarantee at the new four-story, 101-room franchised Wingate Inn hotel at 11 Gateway Boulevard in Savannah.

"Both business and leisure travelers to this growing metropolitan area will appreciate the hotel's comprehensive guest amenities and convenient location," says general manager Mark Friday. "We're adjacent to Interstate 95 and located just minutes from Savannah International Airport and historic downtown Savannah."

John Paul Nichols, president and CEO of Wingate Inns International Inc., adds, "Our upper mid-market hotel offers an array of high-tech business amenities, especially free high-speed Internet access in every room, that will allow business travelers to work efficiently while away from the office. Leisure travelers to the Savannah area will also appreciate the hotel's comfortable rooms and all-inclusive pricing package."

As a part of the Wingate Inns chain, this franchised Wingate Inn hotel features high speed Internet access connections in every guestroom, as well as in the meeting room and boardroom. Guests with a standard Ethernet card and RJ45 connector will be able to enjoy free access to the Internet from guestrooms at speeds up to 50 times faster than conventional 56K modems. Meeting room and boardroom high speed Internet access will be rentable on a half-day and full day basis.

The hotel also features standard amenities such as express, automated check-in and check-out, as well as in-room cordless phones and two-line desk phones with dataport, speaker, conference call and voice mail capabilities. Wingate Inn hotels also offer meeting rooms, 24-hour access to a business center with free usage of fax, printing and copying equipment, and wireless phones that can be checked out from the front desk and used anywhere within the hotel for both incoming and outgoing calls.

Although focused on providing efficient working conditions for the business traveler, Wingate Inn hotels also provide amenities for leisure travelers such as an in-room entertainment system featuring pay-per-view movies and Nintendo 64 games. They can also benefit from larger-than-average guestrooms (12' x 28'), an expanded continental breakfast, a whirlpool, exercise facilities, free accommodations for children 18 and under accompanied by adults, the Wingate Inn 100% gest satisfaction guarantee and in-room safes, coffee makers, hair dryers and ironing boards with irons. In addition, the Wingate Inn hotel in Savannah features an outdoor pool, in-room microwave and refrigerators, three suites and three Jacuzzi suites. Room rates begin at $69 for a standard room and $99 for a suite.

Wingate Inns International, Inc. is an all-new construction hotel chain that opened its first franchised hotel in July 1996. Its focused service, upper mid-market franchised hotels feature sophisticated, consume-based technology and comfortable, oversized rooms that were created in response to business travelers' needs. All Wingate Inn hotels are independently owned and operated under Franchise agreements.