Motels
A motel is a hotel designed for motorists, and often has a parking area for motor vehicles. Car camps predated motels by one or two years. Unlike motels, automobile camps and visitor courts typically provided Bed and Breakfast or hotel style service, generally with stand-alone cabins. After the discovery of the motel, vehicle camps continued in appreciation through the Depression years and after World War II, their acceptance eventually beginning to diminish with the development of freeways and changes in purchaser demands.
Motels are sometimes made in an 'I ' or 'L ' or 'U'-shaped layout that includes guest rooms, an attached manager's office, a little reception and, in a number of cases, a tiny diner. Post-war motels sought more visible excellence, regularly featuring attention-grabbing neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, from Western images of cowboys and Indians to recent pictures of spaceships and atomic age iconography.
Motel is it is U-shaped or square, with an inner yard that serves as the car park. Doors face the lot, with ground doors opening immediately to their own parking spaces mere feet away. This is intensely convenient for unloading suitcases. It is also reassuring to have your auto parked immediately outside the door where you can keep an eye fixed on it, particularly if it contains property. Motel superb for a night's sleep as travelers make their way through the country's less traveled roads to a final destination.
Some motels even feature individual cabins set among pretty woods, good for a longer stay to escape from it all. Motels with low rates occasionally serve as housing for folk who cannot afford a residence or have just recently lost their home and need somewhere to remain till additional arrangements are made. Motels catering to long term stays frequently have kitchenettes.
