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Suburban Lodges Working with Cais, Stay On Line, and Wayport for High-Speed Internet Access Service to Its Guestrooms
ATLANTA - July 18, 2000 - Suburban Lodges of America, Inc. (Nasdaq:SLAM - news) today announced that it has begun installation of high-speed Internet access service at its Suburban Lodge hotels. Guests at the Atlanta-area Suburban Lodge �Extra� of Sandy Springs have already begun using this service. The Company will continue to install direct Internet access service at most of its hotels over the next six to twelve months. 

Commenting on the new service, David Krischer, the Company�s Chief Executive Officer, said, �Suburban Lodges has always been at the forefront of new technology, and providing high-speed Internet access to our guests continues that tradition. We are already receiving much interest in this service at our Sandy Springs hotel and are pleased with the guest response.� 

The Company is currently working with three providers: Cais Internet of Washington, D.C., Stay On Line, a division of e-Centre, Inc. of Georgia and Wayport, Inc. of Texas.

In a few of the Company�s hotels the provider will install web appliances (stripped - down computers) in each wired guestroom so that guests can simply press the �on� switch on the appliance to instantaneously connect to the Internet. 

While the primary objective of adding this new service is to provide a valuable guest amenity, Mr. Krischer noted that the company will also benefit, to some degree, from revenue sharing with the providers and, to a greater degree, from high-speed access to the Company�s property management system. �We are one of the few hotel companies to access real-time hotel data via the Internet,� said Mr. Krischer. �This new service will further facilitate the new ASP property management system that our vendor, HotelTools, Inc., has announced it will roll out later this year.� High-speed Internet connections allow users to access web data quickly and eliminate lengthy downloads. 

Suburban Lodges of America, Inc. owns, franchises and manages Suburban Lodge hotels, the nation�s largest chain of economy extended-stay hotels, and franchises GuestHouse International hotels, the mid-market nightly stay hotel chain with the franchisee-friendly franchise agreement. 

The matters discussed in the foregoing paragraphs of this news release include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ from anticipated results, including, but not limited to, economic conditions, financial markets, the Company�s ability to enter into contracts with appropriate vendors, the level of guest usage of the high-speed Internet connections, the Company�s financial condition and other risks indicated in the Company�s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

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Contact:
Suburban Lodges of America, Inc.
David Krischer, 770/799-5000

Also See Checklist for Evaluating Internet Partner / Wayport, Inc. 
Fast Wireless Internet Takes Off / Wayport, Inc. / June 2000 


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