There is no hard and fast rule differentiating motels from other hotels, although the chitchat motel suggests that it is aimed at motorists. This may simply mean that it is a hotel with admirable access to the road network (on a motorway or ring road) so that a high car itinerary devoir not be interrupted for long by town-centre traffic. In other facts the designation is simply an fling to make the most of a poor location inconvenient for town-centre service and attractions. Classically, though, a motel is a hotel which is unnatural convenient for people who, for whatever personal reason, wish to be able to have cursory access from the outside world (especially from their parked car) to the hotel room - without passing the scrutiny of a receptionist or fellow guests. This is routinely arranged by having rooms (sometimes in individual chalets or even http://www.sandsresorts.com/ trailers) arranged around the hatchback park with room doors opening forthwith to the outside rather than to an domestic corridor.
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The RMS Queen Mary in Gangling Beach, California is the only 1930s ocean liner still in existence
- Its elegant first-class staterooms are now dedicated as a hotel.