Best Western - Best Western Plus - Best Western Premier- Executive Residency by Best Western- @Home by Best Western - GLo - Aiden - Membership Agreement
Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels
Figures are from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document filed in WI.
- Total investment
- $581,925 – $12,658,075
- Initial franchise fee
- $49,000
- Franchised outlets
- 1,748
Upper half of its industry
Better than 24 of 33 comparable brands on loan outcomes — 1 of 111 franchisees who borrowed to buy Best Western - Best Western Plus - Best Western Premier- Executive Residency by Best Western- @Home by Best Western - GLo - Aiden - Membership Agreement did not repay. See every one of them →
We only know how 111 of this brand’s 309 loans ended. The government withholds the outcome on 159 of the others, so everything above is based on 36% of the record.
1 of 111 franchisees who borrowed to buy Best Western - Best Western Plus - Best Western Premier- Executive Residency by Best Western- @Home by Best Western - GLo - Aiden - Membership Agreement did not repay. That is 0.5 times the rate across comparable Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels brands. See it against every comparable brand →
There is more in Best Western - Best Western Plus - Best Western Premier- Executive Residency by Best Western- @Home by Best Western - GLo - Aiden - Membership Agreement’s filing
What it costs to open is free, above. Access opens what the franchisor disclosed about earning it back — here and on every other brand we have read:
- What Item 19 states its outlets earn, and on how many of them
- Every ongoing fee, not just the royalty — priced in dollars a year
- How many franchisees left, were terminated, or sold up
- Territory, renewal, non-compete and dispute terms
- What in the record is worth asking about, and why
- A five-year projection you can put your own rent, wages and borrowing into
One price opens all of it, on every brand we have read. Once opened it stays open.
The loan record stays free — how many of this brand’s franchisees borrowed from a bank to buy in, and how many never paid it back. That is a public government record and we do not charge for it. What you pay for is only what we read out of the franchisor’s own disclosure document.