I voted "Typical Chain hotel with big parking lot ..." but i don't care about "Lots of stuff within walking distance".
As long as my hotel room is within "falling distance" from our keg, i'm happy.
Trying to "take over" a small place only means that if we're running out of rooms, people will get scattered all over town.
Plus, small places have small parking lots ...
IMHO, the most important criteria should be a large parking lot, preferably away from the actual hotel (think back-lot) so we can party all night without other guests calling the cops on us 5 times a night.
Andy