The new Cambria Hotel in College Park opened this week, adding to the revamped offerings for travelers along the Route 1 corridor.

Designed to be a more budget-conscious alternative to the $180 million Hotel at the University of Maryland down the street, the 150-room hotel at 8321 Baltimore Ave. still offers some nicer amenities that should impress your out-of-town guests.

For starters, the first floor is home to the College Park Grill, a high-end bar and grill featuring live jazz seven days a week and handcrafted cocktails.

A new fitness studio, Orangetheory Fitness, which will be open to the public, will join it later this fall. And it’s not your standard gym.

Orangetheory Fitness Studio is a fast-growing boutique fitness franchise that focuses on high-intensity interval training which uses insights from behavioral psychology to keep people motivated.

Attendees of its group-training sessions aren’t told ahead of time what the day’s workout will be like, adding an element of surprise that keeps things interesting. They wear heart rate monitors which display how they’re doing on huge screens, adding a competitive element. And their progress is tracked by a point system that allows them to easily compare how they’re improving at each session.

The new hotel, grill and fitness studio all bring some interesting new options to Route 1 corridor.