I don't like the concept
I am currently spending a week on business travel at this hotel, and I don't like it much. The good things first: the hotel new, my queen suite is a good size, everything works and is clean, I have a nice kitchenette and the bed is comfortable.
However, the concept of Candlewood seems to be that they have ZERO service. You don't get your room cleaned daily, only once a week. If you need new towels, you have to go get them yourself. You have to take your own trash out, if you don't want to smell your sandwich wrappers for a week. And your bed wont be made either. You can go bring our dirty sheets down to reception and get fresh ones, but would you? And there is no breakfast either.
The no frills concept might work with airlines, but I am not so sure about hotels. Especially since its not that much cheaper. For only 20 bucks more a night, I could have gotten a room at the Holiday Inn thats across the street, and there I would have had all those little perks that I kinda like to have, especially when my company is paying. Fresh sheets every day. A nice breakfast buffet. Someone to refill the amenities in the room.
I won't be back.