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This is a hotel that is part of the Choice Hotel brand, making it a generic business. I’ve stayed in a few of these in different places, so it’s not unique. I even got this to review, and rejected it as a generic business. Here is their website, which is with Choice Hotels:
Thanks for the appeal, @DTrain2002! We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.
How does a generic chain hotel, owned by an international chain, not meet removal criteria? I even rejected this in voting as a generic business, as it doesn’t meet eligibility criteria currently.
I noticed it was accepted when reviewing a mural at the restaurant just west of the hotel, and that one is actually mislocated in the hotel, not the stand alone restaurant next door. That was on April 6th. I had to go pick something up at a nearby business the next day, so I put in a removal request (I checked Ingress 1st, as I didn’t know for sure about the cells in the area, but it’s in it’s own cell and is a stop). It wasn’t a remote removal request either, as I was near the sign in the parking lot when I reported; I took the photo from a different area to show what this place actually is.
Just checked the Intel map, and it’s no longer a portal, most likely because of the mural at 46.861157999999996, -96.834486, which I actually voted on, too. It was misplaced as being in the hotel, in guest rooms from the looks of it, and I couldn’t figure out where it should be in the restaurant next door, so I rejected for inaccurate location. I did that the day before I reported the hotel Wayspot, and found the mural was accepted when I opened Ingress.
I’ll see if I can get over there later today. I’ve never eaten at that restaurant, and it might even be a bit weird to staff to have someone coming in asking to prove the existence of a mural there just to get a geotagged photo.
The bar is 21+, so an adult location. There’s no restaurant in the hotel itself, but there is one next door in a stand alone building, and it’s not connected to the hotel whatsoever.
Yes, I was surprised to see it approved, especially after rejecting it as a generic business. The mural I would have approved if it was placed at the restaurant correctly, but it was placed over some of the guest rooms in the hotel.
And yes, the restaurant’s menu does have this burger on their online menu:
Here’s where the pin for the mural is on the Intel map, showing it above rooms at the hotel, not at the restaurant to the west with the existing portals:
Both those cells were empty, and if the mural is moved, it could end up in an already occupied cell, either the one for the restaurant, another art piece, or the hotel.
Ah, i should say, in the uk, bars are all ages, even the most skeeviest, disgusting dangerous looki g bar allows kids in so long as supervised lol so thats why i bring up bar lol
I’m not sure how you’re getting the coordinates for the mural there. The blue Portal in my screenshot is the Stars and Stripes mural. The red pin is the location of the hotel from Geospatial.
Even that location now for the mural is incorrect, as it’s in the stand alone restaurant building to the west, closer to the 2 existing portals on the map. The coordinates come from the review saver extension, so what was originally provided when it was submitted. Maybe the mural was moved by staff to the new location, so then it would be put in the same cell and 20 m radius as the hotel sign?
There isn’t a good Street View showing that the restaurant and hotal aren’t connected. However, thie area I highlighted below is open space, with some trees, inbetween the 2 buildings.
So, just got back home. I had to drop off my recycling, and there’s a drop-off site by the hotel. Seems there’s another bad Wayspot added here, but the hotel one is not on the map anymore:
The new “bad” Wayspot is for what someone called a banquet hall in the hotel (it’s not large enough to have one, nor is one listed on their website), but all it is is a lighted advertisement for a brewing company located in Minneapolis, MN that’s at the bar. This one was also misplaced, as the bar is on the west side of the hotel, while the lobby is on the east side, where this Wayspot is.
