MOXY CAME DOWNSTAIRS TO PLAY

Moxy is what happens when Marriott decides the lobby shouldn't just be somewhere you walk through on the way to your room. The bar is usually the center of everything, the music is up, the furniture doesn't match on purpose, and somebody is probably playing a game while somebody else is starting their night.

And that's exactly why Moxy works for BlkTravel. These hotels tend to land in the kinds of neighborhoods and cities where we're already planning to go out, while keeping the room price more approachable than many lifestyle brands. The rooms can be small, and sometimes small is being generous, but that's part of the tradeoff. Moxy spends more of its personality downstairs.

As part of Marriott International, Moxy also gives travelers something we appreciate: lifestyle-hotel energy with the reach and loyalty benefits of one of the world's biggest hotel companies. That makes it an easy option for the birthday weekend, concert trip, quick city getaway or the trip where the hotel room really only needs to handle showers, outfits and sleep.

Moxy isn't pretending to be luxury. It's trying to make affordable-ish select service considerably less boring. And when the location, crowd and lobby all hit at the same time, it works.