what is the big difference from a hotel and a motel???

Answer 1

A hotel or a guest-house is a large building with many rooms, where people can sleep when they are not at home. A motel is a hotel especially for motorists - people who drive cars - where the room door usually opens into the parking lot.

Answer 2

Not too much, these days. But, the other answer is correct. "motel" was a variation on "hotel". When cars started getting more popular and cheap in the 1930s, someone decided to come up with a new type of "hotel" where people could bring their cars right up to their room door instead of having to park on a street and letting bellhops carry their luggage, etc, like in the "big city hotels". This was on routes like Route 66, etc that went through lots of small towns. Since that time, there really aren't as many "hotels" anymore. Even downtown hotels usually have parking garages that let you park fairly close to your floor.

Answer 3

Generally speaking a hotel has interior cooridors (all the entrances are inside of the property) there is no way to access the property unless you go inside the main lobby. A motel usually has exterior cooridors meaning the entrance to your room is through a door facing the outside of the building.

Hotels tend to be nicer and have more amenities.

Answer 4

MOTEL comes from Motor Hotel...ie you can drive right up to and park in front of your room

Answer 5

Services: Hotels have restaurants, bars, cleaners, room service, a concierge for special requests,tickets to events, minibars, limos and car rentals, and so on.
At a motel, you have to haul your a$$ outta bed and drive to the nearest McDonald's for your egg McMuffin.
Bon Voyage.

Answer 6

HOTELS OFFER MORE AMENETIES(I THINK I SPELLED THAT WRONG)...so they offer more things...like maybe room service...and many other things