You're starving, cranky, and need to pee. Suddenly, the clouds part. The moon shines, revealing a hotel on a hill and a motel on the side of the road. So…which should you choose? And what is the ...

The San Jose City Council unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to add five more motels for temporary housing for people ...

Motels — the word is a portmanteau of “motor” and “hotel” — boomed after the Interstate System was built in the 1950s and 60s. At their peak, in 1964, more than 61,000 motels operated ...

PETERSBURG—Back in July when we found out that a string of motels had been shut down by the city due to health and safety violations, we began investigating the impact of these motel closures. We ...

We gather today to celebrate the motel, a uniquely American creature, conceived in California through the unholy embrace of the automobile and the hotel. Since that beginning in 1925, motels have ...

Get around the US by car and sooner or later you’ll end up in a motel. In this modest accommodation with its run-down charm, you’ll encounter another America altogether. Along America’s highways you ...

A portmanteau of the words “motor” and “hotel,” motels cropped up across the country in the 1930s and ’40s in response to the growth of the U.S. highway system, peaking in the ’60s.

NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. — Right before Halloween last year, a battered Ford F-150 pulled up to El Rancho Motel, an old coral and aqua-blue horseshoe of 12 rooms off the busy Tamiami highway ...

Some travelers like to stay in five-star resorts. Others prefer some grit with their lodging – motels with fun history, quirky charm and plenty of “character”(that’s what they call those ...

Southern Crossing is the new name of what had been a classic 1950s motel. This two-bedroom apartment used to be three separate motel rooms. The door opens to a large kitchen, stocked with donated ...