STAY Extended Stay America Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2021

Registration No. 333-204781

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

Form S-3

11525 N. Community House Road, Suite 100

Charlotte, North Carolina 28277

(980) 345-1600

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrants’ principal executive offices)

Christopher Dekle

Extended Stay America, Inc.

ESH Hospitality, Inc.

11525 N. Community House Road, Suite 100

Charlotte, North Carolina 28277

(Name and address of agent for service)

(980) 345-1600

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

copies to:

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were registered but not sold pursuant to this registration statement.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-204781) (the “Registration Statement”) of Extended Stay America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), and ESH Hospitality, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ESH REIT”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 5, 2015.

On June 16, 2021, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 14, 2021, by and among Eagle Parent Holdings L.P., Eagle Merger Sub 1 Corporation (“MergerCo 1”), Eagle Merger Sub 2 Corporation (“MergerCo 2”), the Corporation and ESH REIT, as amended on May 31, 2021, (i) MergerCo 1 merged with and into the Corporation, with the Corporation continuing as the surviving corporation in such merger (the “Corporation Merger”) and (ii) MergerCo 2 merged with and into ESH REIT, with ESH REIT continuing as the surviving corporation in such merger (the “REIT Merger”). Subsequent to the Corporation Merger and the REIT Merger, the Corporation merged with and into ESH REIT, with ESH REIT continuing as the surviving corporation in such merger.

As a result of the foregoing mergers, any and all offerings of securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated as of the date hereof. In accordance with the undertakings contained in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, ESH REIT, for itself and as successor to the Corporation, hereby removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 478 thereunder, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 16, 2021.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933.