Built to Hilton brand standards

The delivered programmes

What Hilton's book asks, from the bench

Hilton Garden Inn's global brand standards, dated 05 January 2026 and attached to the franchise disclosure as Exhibit H-1, file the guest room under chapter 300: 302.00 Closet / Armoire, 304.00 Guest Room Accessories, 305.00 The Bed, 306.00 Sofa Bed, 307.00 Rollaways. Chapter 2500 is Design, Construction & Renovation, and chapter 100 carries 104.00 Product Improvement Plan and 105.00 Structure and Décor. Those chapter numbers are what a specification points at when it reaches us, and the two Jeddah programmes were priced and built against them line by line.

At Hilton Garden Inn Jeddah the scope ran past the guest room to the corridors and public areas, with wall coverings and doors, and shipped as one export programme from Gemlik. At DoubleTree Jeddah the book met a different material list: oak veneer with brass inlay, high-gloss lacquered paneling, black marble desk and nightstand tops on bronze-finished frames, leather headboards and bouclé upholstery. The same armchairs stand on the production floor in Gemlik in one photograph and in the finished Jeddah rooms in the next; between the two frames sit the shop drawings, the brand review, the spray booths and a sequenced sea shipment.

Who buys the furniture, in Hilton's own words

Hilton's 2026 disclosure for Hilton Garden Inn states: “Except as discussed below, you may purchase the furniture, fixtures, and equipment (“FF&E”) and other supplies for your Hotel from any source as long as the Standards are met.” Hilton Supply Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary, “seeks to negotiate with manufacturers and suppliers for the distribution of hotel furniture”, and an owner “may but [is] not obligated to” buy through it; when he does, HSM invoices the product cost “plus freight, sales tax and other actual costs, plus a procurement fee that ranges 4% to 10% of the project cost”. HSM is the required procurement provider for one brand, Spark by Hilton, and optional for the others.

A product or supplier the brand has not already specified goes through a written request: Hilton “may require certain information or samples”, and its review “typically takes 60 to 90 days to complete”. That is the route a factory's build-up travels when a specification names a standard and the owner chooses the source. The two Jeddah programmes were manufactured to Hilton's standard and delivered; that is what the page claims, and it is a different thing from approval status.

What the FF&E line contains in Hilton's budget

Hilton's Note 7 to Item 7 says the FF&E estimate covers “furniture, fixtures and equipment for guest rooms, corridors, all public areas, kitchen equipment, laundry equipment, and telephone systems”, and that the cost “will depend on the number and type of guest rooms (for example, double rooms versus king rooms), the extent of the food and beverage service offered”. For a conversion, the note says, “your costs will most likely be lower, but you must conform guest rooms, public areas, the exterior, and all other areas to our Brand Standards”. The Property Improvement Plan that lists those conformances costs $0 to $10,000 to prepare, per Item 7.

DoubleTree's disclosure describes its suites brand as “guest suites that generally have a living room, dining area, bedroom, wet bar or kitchen area, and bath”, which is the room count a factory prices twice. Royalties, for the record, are 5.5% of gross rooms revenue at Hilton Garden Inn and 5% at DoubleTree, per Item 6 of each document; the furniture sits on the owner's side of that line.