WINGATE INN® HOTEL OPENS FOR BUSINESS IN GARDEN CITY

Business and leisure travelers to the Garden City, NY, area will find comfortable amenities, advanced in-room telecommunications such as free high-speed Internet access, comfortable amenities and a 100% stisfaction guarantee at the new five-story, 130-room franchised Wingate Inn hotel located at 821 Stewart Avenue.

"The property is centrally located in Garden City and near the corporate headquarters for business such as Avis, 1-800-flowers.com, and Wizcom International," said Lou Salvatico, General Manager. "It's also within minutes of Hofstra University, Eisenhower Park Aquatic Center, and many business located off of Old Country Road, making this Wingate Inn an ideal choice for both business and leisure travelers."

Keith J. Pierce, Wingate Inns International, Inc. president and CEO adds, "We're excited to open a Wingate Inn hotel in Garden City. The hotel offers an all-inclusive amenity package so business and leisure travelers can enjoy comfortable accommodations and high-tech amenities at an affordable price."

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 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. Room rates begin at $139 for a standard room and $179 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, consumer-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.