a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
The windows in the motel shook and the water in the pool rippled.
In the cinder-block motel room he set the alarm, but his own stertorous breathing woke him before it rang.
The rest of the time, he lies on his back in a squalid motel.
And when she opened her eyes again, there was the motel.
There is a large hotel-motel complex with restaurant, swimming pool and sauna.
Check into a motel in any major city and you'll have broadband access.
The motel features one- or two-bed rooms with microwaves, telephones and air conditioning.
Ask whether kitchenettes are available when making hotel or motel reservations.
Genevieve has a motel and variety of bed-and-breakfast inns, restaurants and wineries.
There's been reports all week of independent hotel and motel operators gouging customers.
British Dictionary definitions for motel
motel
/məʊˈtɛl/
noun
1.
a roadside hotel for motorists, usually having direct access from each room or chalet to a parking space or garage
Word Origin
C20: from motor + hotel
Word Origin and History for motel
n.
1925, coined from motor- + hotel. Originally a hotel for automobile travelers.
The Milestone Interstate Corporation ... proposes to build and operate a chain of motor hotels between San Diego and Seattle, the hotels to have the name 'Motel.' ["Hotel Monthly," March 1925]