Winston Hotels Announces Date for Second Quarter Results and Conference Call

Winston Hotels, Inc. (NYSE: WXH), today announced that
the Company will announce financial results for the second quarter
ended June 30, 2006 prior to the opening of the market on Tuesday,
August 8, 2006.
   Also, on August 8th at 10 a.m. (EST) Winston Hotels, Inc. will
host a conference call to discuss the results. To hear the call,
please dial 800-230-1092. Please state that you are dialing into the
Winston Hotels, Inc. second quarter results call. A replay of the call
will be available for seven days after the call by dialing
800-475-6701 access code #836223.
   The call can also be accessed via the Internet live or as a replay
at www.winstonhotels.com. The conference call will be available for
replay on the Company's web site shortly after the call and for 30
days thereafter.

   About the Company

   As of June 30, 2006, the Company owned or was invested in 53 hotel
properties in 18 states having an aggregate of 7,181 rooms. This
included 45 wholly owned properties with an aggregate of 6,110 rooms,
a 60% ownership interest in a joint venture that owned one hotel with
138 rooms, a 49% ownership interest in a joint venture that owned one
hotel with 118 rooms, a 48.78% ownership interest in a joint venture
that owned one hotel with 147 rooms, a 13.05% ownership interest in a
joint venture that owned four hotels with an aggregate of 545 rooms,
and a 0.21% ownership interest in a joint venture that owned one hotel
with 123 rooms, for which substantially all of the profit or loss
generated by the joint venture is allocated to the Company. As of June
30, 2006, the company also has hotel loan commitments totaling $71.4
million. The Company does not hold an ownership interest in any of the
hotels for which it has provided financing.