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Stay in vacation mode using these hotel style tips in your home

With vacation season in full swing, take a look around your hotel with an eye toward taking stylish inspiration home with you.

What to do if your hotel reservation is lost

The missing hotel reservation is a common travel problem with a little-known solution. While overbooking is perfectly legal, the hotel industry also has industry-standard policies in effect to prevent guests such as Cole from being kicked out on the street. So what is it?

The definition of ‘motel’

There are hotels and there are motels. If you look through your Funk & Wagnalls for the stereotypical definition of a “motel,” you just might find a picture of the

College Art Professor Challenges Students To Build Insect Motels

A concerned University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee art instructor challenged her students to construct insect motels out of natural, untreated materials. Each motel must provide an appropriate habitat for a particular insect and attract human interest too, as each has a QR Code with information about why that bug or bee matters in nature and needs to be nurtured. Nearly 100 are installed in a state park overlooking Lake Michigan in downtown Milwaukee.

Twenty Vintage Colorado Motel Signs — Including Two You Can Own

With each passing year, Colorado seems to be losing more classic signage — including vintage hotel and motel signs that have distinguished roadsides in the state for decades. The latest to go? Signs for the Chief Motel and the Stardust Lodge in Colorado Springs, whose accompanying businesses, located on South...

Escape reality when you check into the Madcap Motel immersive experience

The Madcap Motel in Downtown LA is full of visual oddities and whimsical wonders.

10 Destination-Worthy Cheap Motels

From The Sandman in California's Sonoma County to the Lincolnville Motel in Maine, here are 10 properties that offer style, amenities, and more—without a steep price tag.

Motel Self-Storage: Keeping Tenants From ‘Checking In’ Permanently

Living in a self-storage unit is not just illegal, but can be seriously unsafe for the tenant camping out, other customers and the facility’s staff.

Zoo Motel and The Journey take us away from it all

Links Hall and Chicago Shakespeare host two virtual interactive shows on isolation and connection.

Tips for Preparing for Carpet Installation

Getting ready for new carpet installation? Here are some handy tips to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Creating tranquility and comfort in a hotel room!

Recently I had the chance to stay at freshly remodeled Hampton motel in Seattle, Washington. The new design was very well put together and that really effected how I felt during my stay. There was …

Where Home Is an Elusive Fantasy

Nadia Shira Cohen and Paulo Siqueira moved into a Florida motel to document the lives of families uprooted by poverty, illness and misfortune.

Who Wants a Hotel With a Hallway Anyway?

“Motor lodges.” “High-end motels.” “Exterior-corridor hotels.” Whatever you call them, the “motorist’s hotel” has gotten a boost these past 15 months. Now about that reputation …

Something on your mind? Write us a letter

On my first visit to Anniston back in 2003, a friendly motel clerk asked why I was in town.

Hotels are finally figuring out that guests hate traditional check-in times

Increasingly, you can check into and out of hotels on your own schedule.

Five Unique, Vintage Colorado Motels You've Never Heard Of

If the sign is neon, rusted and says 'FREE ROOMS JUST KIDDING,' or it has a drive-in theater attached to it, I'm totally staying there. We have it all in Colorado.