Hotels vs Motels

[Gizmo]

Sometimes people have a preference. I prefer a hotel especially if there's room service.

 

[Page]

Hotels are usually more expensive and most are quite luxurious. You'll want to stay at a hotel when you're visiting someplace or on vacation. A motel is way cheaper than a hotel. But it's not a luxury at all. You'd be lucky if your motel had a TV in it. At a minimum, motels are gonna have a bed and a small bathroom. They usually aren't the most sanitary either. The only reason you'd want to stay at a motel is if you're homeless and need a cheap place to temporarily live, or you're on a road trip and need a place to spend the night, or of course, hooking up with the hot chick you met at the bar.

 

[MrDawn]

Neither matter when the ones you check into are disgusting. I went to Florida back in June and we stayed in several motels and I have to say that house keeping at most of them didn't do the best job at keeping them clean.

 

[Black Angel]

I prefer hotels when traveling with my husband but when traveling as a group with my family we either stay at a resort we found from HomeAway/VRBO..

We don't do AirBnB.. there are more consumer protections with a hotel and resort than their would be with somebody else's place..

 

[Deleted member 31696]

I feel safer staying in a hotel.

 

[Katrina]

I prefer a hotel over a motel because of the fear of bedbugs after reading a lot of different reviews. There is one place that I'm looking at that's more of a motel though, but it's on a lake and the reviews are almost all 5 star. It's tempting.

 

[Cam]

Having multiple traveling jobs, I’ve stayed at tons of hotels and motels. Hotels are typically the preference, but you can encounter issues like bedbugs at both. I just always checked Google reviews before I booked it.

 

[Katrina]

Having multiple traveling jobs, I’ve stayed at tons of hotels and motels. Hotels are typically the preference, but you can encounter issues like bedbugs at both. I just always checked Google reviews before I booked it.

Yeah, it depends on the location. If near a bigger city, there's more of a chance of bedbugs is what I've seen in reviews. The smaller town locations seem to take more pride in their place.

 

[Deleted member 61785]

I never, ever feel comfortable sleeping anywhere other than my own home. If I had to choose, though, I'd choose a hotel. All I can think about when sleeping in a motel or hotel, though, is how germy it is. 😛

 

[Page]

I rather like self accommodation 🙂

 

[Heatman]

Well, it depends on where you're at that's going to determine if you would get a hotel or motel. If it's about choice, I believe that most people would go for a hotel as long as they can afford to pay for it. I wouldn't mind making use of either as long as it's neat.

 

[Jason76]

Technically, motels have doors on the outside and hotels have them on the inside, but maybe that's just an American thing. Well, as someone noted, a hotel is way more fancy and I have been to those, but not as often.

Anyway, those $100 a night hotels are not those ones movie stars stay in, however. They just got a really good cooked breakfast and probably an indoor pool

 

[Naza]

For me,I prefer hotels.
Reasons being that hotels are more convenient than motels, though hotels are more expensive.

 

[John]

I would never stay in a motel unless it was an absolute last resort, lol. They're normally dirty, dumpy, and I have a fear of bed bugs.

 

[Shortie_]

It's not too often I stay in a hotel but I do prefer hotels over motels. Motels do not seem quite as comfy or homely as hotels do I find and room service I believe is only available with hotels so it makes sense to use a hotel over a motel.