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Certainly in the city here, the very last motels and motor courts have a rather terrible reputation, known to law enforcement and EMT alike, though perhaps fore

Certainly in the city here, the very last motels and motor courts have a rather terrible reputation, known to law enforcement and EMT alike, though perhaps foreign to fumigators. Further out, though, along the faded remnants of Route 66, you can see any number of ghost motel properties. Some appear shockingly well-kept. Others I have watched decay until finally bulldozed into plots of dirt which hopefully await a gas station. I do prefer a motel over a hotel: less distance to travel when hauling luggage, a bit more private, which I suppose contributes to that "seedy" reputation. It's just a shame they still seem to cost almost hotel prices.

throwhalflife 6y ago
It'd be an interesting challenge to make Breezewood, PA cool again.
GavinMcG 6y ago
It's interesting that you associate motels with more privacy. In a motel I feel as though everyone knows exactly where I am, whereas in a hotel while I may run into people in the hall, they often won't be able to match me with my room. Hotels also seem to have fewer rooms with the parking lot and sidewalk right outside your window.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 6y ago
  In a lot of hotels, getting to your room requires walking though a lobby that’s attended by staff and where there might be other visitors milling about. If you bring an additional guest to your room, those people might notice. In a motel, the door to your room is probably facing a parking lot. It might be visible from the street, and less private in that sense, but there’s less possibility of somebody noticing who entered the room vs. who checked in.
- nwatson 6y ago
  In Brazil and probably many other places a "hotel" is a reputable place of lodging to which you might take your family, a "motel" is where you go for whatever you might consider "illicit amorous encounters." I just found a book [1] that purports to explore the nature of motels in contemporaneous Brazil. "..., continuam situados em um espaço liminar, associado à transgressão. Como o modelo de motel norte-americano - um simples hotel de beira de estrada - transformou-se em love hotel ao chegar ao Brasil no fim dos anos 1960?" ... "[motels] ... continue occupying the fringes, associated with transgression. How did the model of the North American motel - a simple hotel by the roadside, transform into a 'love hotel' when it arrived in Brazil at the end of the 1960s?" Might be an interesting read, I always was curious about that as a teen. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Brasil-Antropologia-Contemporanea-Portugues/dp/6581060054 https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Brasil-Antropologia-Contemporan... ... "Motel Brasil - Uma Antropologia Contemporanea"
  - selimthegrim 6y ago
    God help us, what does a Holiday Inn mean over there!

throwhalflife 6y ago

It'd be an interesting challenge to make Breezewood, PA cool again.

GavinMcG 6y ago

It's interesting that you associate motels with more privacy. In a motel I feel as though everyone knows exactly where I am, whereas in a hotel while I may run into people in the hall, they often won't be able to match me with my room. Hotels also seem to have fewer rooms with the parking lot and sidewalk right outside your window.

fshbbdssbbgdd 6y ago
In a lot of hotels, getting to your room requires walking though a lobby that’s attended by staff and where there might be other visitors milling about. If you bring an additional guest to your room, those people might notice. In a motel, the door to your room is probably facing a parking lot. It might be visible from the street, and less private in that sense, but there’s less possibility of somebody noticing who entered the room vs. who checked in.
nwatson 6y ago
In Brazil and probably many other places a "hotel" is a reputable place of lodging to which you might take your family, a "motel" is where you go for whatever you might consider "illicit amorous encounters." I just found a book [1] that purports to explore the nature of motels in contemporaneous Brazil. "..., continuam situados em um espaço liminar, associado à transgressão. Como o modelo de motel norte-americano - um simples hotel de beira de estrada - transformou-se em love hotel ao chegar ao Brasil no fim dos anos 1960?" ... "[motels] ... continue occupying the fringes, associated with transgression. How did the model of the North American motel - a simple hotel by the roadside, transform into a 'love hotel' when it arrived in Brazil at the end of the 1960s?" Might be an interesting read, I always was curious about that as a teen. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Brasil-Antropologia-Contemporanea-Portugues/dp/6581060054 https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Brasil-Antropologia-Contemporan... ... "Motel Brasil - Uma Antropologia Contemporanea"
- selimthegrim 6y ago
  God help us, what does a Holiday Inn mean over there!