What is the difference between a hotel and a motel?

smokenstuff: What is the difference between a hotel and a motel?
Is there like a office that goes around telling them what it is? What would a motel have to do to become a hotel?

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Answer by lc.lokita831
get bigger

hotels are big motels

Answer by nietzsche_thinks
I think motels have their room doors facing out, like towards a parking lot, and a hotel has a lobby with rooms accessible from the inside of the building.

Answer by qogima
hotels are usually all in one big building (everything is inside) while motels everything is outside. motels are usually cheaper because of this

Answer by Carefree
I think a Motel you can rent it monthly or weekly basics, plus they have kitchens too…and Hotel it’s nightly stays..

Answer by ?
Hotel: Go into a building, then into your room. Generally nicer, more expensive.

Motel: Your room’s door goes right out into the parking lot. Rooms are usually old, outdated. Cheaper, easier to get a room in the middle of the night.

Answer by emo elmo
motels are generally smaller and you can access your rooms through the outside, while hotels are generally bigger and you have to go into the facility to get to your room. For example If you’ve ever seen a motel 6 or a super 8 motel they are like huge apartment buildings with doors all along the outside, as opposed to motels where you see windows and you have to go through a main enterance to get to your room!

Answer by Karl Rudolf
The answer is in the word motel which stands for motor hotel. Generally you get to them by car, most of the time you find them right next to the freeways, Motel 6, Motel 8, etc