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

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.What is the big difference from a hotel and a motel???
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.What is the big difference from a hotel and a motel???
MOTEL comes from Motor Hotel...ie you can drive right up to and park in front of your room
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.
HOTELS OFFER MORE AMENETIES(I THINK I SPELLED THAT WRONG)...so they offer more things...like maybe room service...and many other things
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.