STAY Extended Stay America Inc

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

Registration No. 333-192495

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 2

to

Form S-8 Registration Statement

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)

Extended Stay America, Inc. 2013 Long-Term Incentive Plan

ESH Hospitality, Inc. 2013 Long-Term Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plans)

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:

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-192495) (the “Registration Statement”) of Extended Stay America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), and ESH Hospitality, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ESH REIT” and together with the Corporation, the “Company”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 22, 2013 and amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on November 27, 2013.

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.