Motel

A motel, German and rest house, rest area or truck stop, is a hotel and catering operation for guests arriving by car.

The concept

Motels are located on highways inns with available parking.

Motel is a portmanteau of motor and hotel, the words roadhouse and service area are secondary replicas.

Unlike a hotel room at the Motel are often directly accessible from the outside without access control at a desk - usually a short path from the parking lot to facilitate the loading and unloading of luggage. Motels often have no own restaurant and give and that no alcoholic beverages. Often there are also accommodation and food service as one or as separate businesses in one place, in combination with gas stations, repair shops, lots of auto care and other recreational infrastructure ( service station in the strict sense, compare roadhouse ). Motels / Rest Houses have in general - in the entertainment - no curfew, but open 24 hours. For travelers and professional drivers ( delivery, truck drivers ) is also common spezialisierters offer available.

The first motels originated with the mass motorization in the early 20th century in the USA. As the founder of the true American architect Arthur Heinemann. The first motel ever opened on 12 December 1925 at San Luis Obispo, California under the name Motel Inn. After Europe, they were used primarily as a motorway service station from the 1950s as well as other long-distance routes, and later also in the outside areas of the big cities in a convenient location.

Motels are usually simply equipped and reasonably priced. Very popular in France, motels, receptionist, called automata hotels. The guest book is a credit card and receive a password, with which he can enter his room. A known Machines Hotel chain Hotel Formule 1

In Latin America and East Asia a motel serves almost exclusively as a hotel hours and is usually used by lovers or suitors and their prostitutes.

National

Austria

In Austria 111 para 5 Industrial Code pursuant to § distinguish the modes motel and roadhouse, the former belonging to the inns, which are catering establishments in which both accommodate guests as well as catering ( delivery of food and beverage serving activities ) is operated (like the hotel), temptation include to the taverns that serve primarily taking meal ( such as a restaurant ). The lock time does not apply to motels and rest houses.