One Marriott member from China.
Accidentally find this online community. I am a newly graduate student who have been staying in all kinds of Marriott hotels for the past 3 yrs (me and my gf love travelling), and I have been constantly checking the latest hotels opening since 2025. I feel like hotels nowadays are getting more and more identical, even including the Ritz-Carlton hotels and St.Regis hotels. Like the renovation and decoration of all the different hotels I have been to are all standardized, without any local element or special designing feature. What's worse, I find the distinctions within different hotel brands, say a courtyard compared to a JW, are becoming more and more blurry, especially those hotels newly opened these past 3 yrs. I can't tell is it just me feeling that way or it's a universal phenomenon now. Hotels in different countries are doing plastic surgeries to look exactly the same.