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<p>Thank you for asking.</p>
<p>I go a lot to either motels or hotels and I also think that the
difference between a motel and an hotel is mainly based on the
design of the place, not on the number of nights, the proximity to
tourist attractions or major highways or the cost of the land.
Consequently I disagree with most of your criteria in the "How to
tell apart from hotel" section and would reduce the list to
objective criteria based on the design of the place, i.e an high
interaction between the parking lot and the rooms (which often
means that room access is made from the parking lot). Everything
else may be your criteria but are not objective criteria IMHO.</p>
<p>Speaking of the difference with a guest house the main difference
would be: Is the owner a company (i.e. an incorporated business)
with employees (for check in, check out...) or is it a
self-managed business? I think the question applies also to
hotels.</p>
<p>Also, I suggest you to sum up eveything in one Wiki page listing
all scenarios of sleeping places (camping, glamping, hotel, motel
and guest house), keeping the actual one as how to use the tags
(not how to choose the best one) instead of keeping 5 pages which
will never (?) be aligned.</p>
<p>Yours,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 23/12/2018 à 12:05, bkil a écrit :<br>
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<div>Thank you for the insight, I'll try to figure out a better
wording there. I'm also considering to improve the wording of
the guest house and hotel articles in the future, though I'll
need to find a way to do this without adding too much
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<div>Well, what I wanted to convey in those sentences was that
I'd expect the average booked nights per stay to be lower for
a motel compared to a hotel.</div>
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<div>Compared to renting a flat, both motel and hotel stays are
considered short-term. However, if we used the exact same
wording of simply "short term" on both wiki articles, we would
be missing the opportunity for an important distinction: while
one happily books a whole week in a hotel for the sake of
enjoying the leisure, services and attractions nearby, motels
by design have been more intended for transit traffic.</div>
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<div>Of course I'm not talking about a hard split, as in all or
nothing. Surely a number of people on the budget will stay at
a motel and commute from there daily to their real
destinations simply because of the cost savings, but I'd say
that the core business model of most motels relies (or have
historically relied) on transient use.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 11:17 AM Joseph
Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="auto">The one concern I have is the new
sentences that suggest that hotels are “typically not
[booked for ] single night” while motels are usually
booked for 1 night. </div>
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<div dir="auto">I have certainly stayed for 2 to 3 nights at
a “Motel 6” and other motels. </div>
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<div dir="auto">And I have never encountered problems
booking rooms for a single night at 3 and 3.5 star hotels
for business trips.</div>
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href="http://bkil.hu" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">bkil.hu</a>+<a
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<div>I've made a major rewording of this tag.
Please review and don't hesitate to comment or
improve if I've mistakenly changed the meaning
of the tag:</div>
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href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Atourism%3Dmotel&type=revision&diff=1755686&oldid=1561324"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Atourism%3Dmotel&type=revision&diff=1755686&oldid=1561324</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Source: based on Wikipedia and
recent mapping experience:<br>
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<div>It also looks like some have used the word
motel for what should have been pensions and
guest houses around here, I'll also fix these
later.</div>
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