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Motel meaning
A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles. | A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
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The cockroach motel and no-tell motel stereotypes continue with various motels in the series, including the Happy Earwig Motel and Worst Western.
The motel consists of a 13-unit motel with an additional 3-bedroom apartment, laundry facility and heated swimming pool.
The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians breathed new life into the Stardust Motel, a nearly 50-year-old motel located on Route 1 in Houlton.
Afterward, prosecutors said, Washington hopped from motel-to-motel and robbed businesses including supermarkets and a Burger King while detectives pursued him in connection with Jay's killing.
Debbie stayed at the motel, and when John got back to the motel, Debbie was watching the news reports.
Elinor’s parents built the Wigwam Motel on Route 66. She was very proud of it and spent a lot of her life helping to run the motel.
The couple made their way to Atlantic City, moving from motel to motel and desperate to find help, until they learned about Catholic Charities’ Atlantic City Employment and Assistance program, directed by Jeanetta Warren.
Bates Motel series On January 13, 2012, A&E announced that a television series called Bates Motel was in development at the network.
By the 1990s, Motel 6 and Super 8 were built with inside corridors (so were nominally hotels) while other former motel brands (including Ramada and Holiday Inn) had become mid-price hotel chains.
In the film Sparkle Lite Motel (2006) and the TV miniseries The Lost Room (2006), the motel made forays into the realms of science fiction.
It is also the name of a motel chain in China (Motel 168).
Stephen C. Apostolof's Motel Confidential (1967) and the porn film Motel for Lovers (1970) were two notable early examples.
According to documents tendered to the court, police were patrolling Gilgandra when they saw a truck of interest stopped near Silver Oaks Motel.
After her mother’s death, Abby (Tuppence Middleton) inherits an old motel near where she grew up in the Clifton Hill neighborhood of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
A man police say was the victim’s roommate at the motel for at least a month was later charged in the killing.
A Phoenix secretary on the run (Janet Leigh) checks into a shady motel run by the mysterious Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his overbearing mother.
APS, like all public school systems, is federally required to count students living in a motel or hotel, moving frequently or living “doubled up” with relatives and friends as experiencing homelessness.
As Butch is driving back to the motel, he happens to see Marsellus crossing the street.
A sign for the former White Sands Motel remains on South Las Vegas Boulevard on Friday, March 24, 2023, in Las Vegas.
A wanted Cheyenne transient is behind bars after reportedly trespassing at a Cheyenne motel.