There are tons of people that WANT to stay at local hotels. But it’s always a bit harder than just going with the chain option every town has.

So fellow Indie owners @innvestors have built an awesome site that let’s you find cool independent stays (like Hotel Pommier 😎) around the country, helping you save money, find great places to stay and support local businesses at the same time! 🙌

Love me a win-win-win so considering following @inndependentstays and staying booking local next time you travel!

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

Big hotels love charging fees for all sorts of things, how else do they pay their corporate bosses?

We don’t play under those rules, so when we save money as a hotel so so do our guests 😎

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

Our small Iowa town was losing guests to other communities, so we wanted to build something folks would feel proud recommended to their friends and family!

No more corporate chains means we get to focus on giving guests the best stay possible! 🙌

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

When we left Super 8 to go Independent, we wanted to make sure we had room options for every stay. It was also a chance to re-think the types of rooms we had.

For example, most the rooms are similar sizes, but some had queens and some had Kings which made no sense. So we got rid of every room queen room and upgraded them to Kings! The corner rooms were larger, so we took our famous Triple and made it work in Chariton with 2 Twin XL daybeds + King.

100% non-smoking (of course), but now some first floor rooms are Pet Friendly! And 2 awesome accessible rooms with roll-in showers, bathroom rails, and height adjusted bed.

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

We’re still set on sharing as much of our Independent hotel journey as possible,

but we want some input from you guys…as we figure out our next move, what do you want to see more of? What questions can we help answer?

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

“You’re wasting your time renovating a hotel in a small Iowa town”

My honest reaction:

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

bad day to be an old motel in need of fixing up…

People in Iowa - where shall we take over next??👀

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

Hey fellow small business owners, don’t forget to step back and smell the roses once in awhile. If what we were doing was easy, everyone would be doing it. Be proud of your accomplishments, it’s ok to take a victory lap once in awhile. Because the other 99% of the time we are slogging it out in the trenches. It hits different when your family, employees, customers, and community on relying on you to succeed 💯🔒

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

During the renovation we literally made changes / decisions directly from ya’lls feedback! Instead of corporate suits, we have thousands of regular people guiding and cheering us on. So we’re nominating ya’ll to join our official advisory board. 👨‍💼

First task - what do you think we should do next? I read every comment 🙂

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

We’re slowly getting all the admin tasks completed at the new hotel, now my Mom is on my case about a 3rd hotel 😅

P.S. Finding time to buy groceries is tough. Visiting Iowa just to support us? Even tougher. But thank you all for the support, if we designed dope t-shirt would you wear our merch?

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

The brand on our sign used to call all the shots. It would tell us what guests we could host and which ones were ‘out of our lane’. But now we are independent, we get to set our own rules. The rules that are best for our guests and our community.

Our amazing team couldn’t be more thankful to have everyone’s support to make this happen. We are dead set on putting the hospitality back into hotels, not chains!

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel

I’ve always cringed how big corporate hotels advertise their properties. Overpaid famous actors (that obviously stay at nicer places), super polished photos that don’t look like the place, no mention at all of the communities they serve, etc.

We are changing that, bringing everyone along on this journey of building the best independent hotel brand! 🫂

I’ve had folks tell me not to share revenue and behind the scenes content, but somehow, we’re racking up millions of views as a small hotel brand in Iowa! 🤷‍♂️

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Follow along as we document our journey of becoming Iowa’s best independent hotel brand!

New here? Look back through our previous posts to see the journey of the 2 hotels we’ve already transformed! Check out our guest reviews to see what people think. Running 2 hotels means everyday is crazy, so your support and engagement means the world.

For our guaranteed best rates, book direct via our website - link in bio!

#hotelpommier #iowa #hotel #local #travel