Hi,

I find the use of articles in front of hotel names so confusing. Do you have some tips. I think chain hotels like Marriots (I think that is how they are spelled) can have the definite article 'the'  or the indefinite article 'a' somewhat freely but when you have some names that seem to be taken to reflect the local flavor, confusion seems to be born (in my mind, that is).

Also, why is that when you have a great hotel chain like the Marriot, the definite article 'the' seems to go with it almost always, but when we look at the actual pictures of those hotels, they seem to have "Marriot" with the articles for their signs up high on the roofs?