Best Hotel Rooms with Kitchens

Sure, I like dining out, but I also love to cook simple, fresh, local food when I travel. Here are the best hotel chains for doing so.

As promised, I’ll be featuring occasional travel stories on this site; most are focused on nearby destinations, but this one will help you out wherever you go. P.S.: As a “paid subscriber” bonus, I’m offering my one and only go-to chain-fare takeout order for those times when I neither want to eat out nor cook. You’ll find that at the end of the story.

These Are the Best Hotel Rooms with Kitchens

If you, like me, tire of eating in restaurants on extended road trips, I can help! I’ve taken some major road trips in the past four years. At this point, I’ve stayed in all of the major hotel chains with kitchens, and I’ve come up with my absolute favorites.

But first: Why am I cooking so much on the road? Isn’t eating out part of the fun of traveling? Of course it is! But sometimes—especially on longer trips—you simply tire of either spending so much money at high-end places or the monotony of casual spots—the Caesar salads, burgers, pizza, pasta, tacos, french fries and so on.

That’s when I …