Well, Whaddya Know! Modern Economy Motels Are Sprouting In Europe!
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, April, 2000 by Ed Perkins
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For a moment, you could think yourself on Route 66. Increasingly, as you cruise the highways of England and France, a brightly colored, painfully modern motel looms in the distance. At hundreds of locations in these two nations, and at several dozen road crossings elsewhere on the continent, the brand-new European version of a low-cost Red Roof Inn or Microtel is available to supply you with up-to-date accommodations at breathtakingly low rates. The budget motel has come to the Old World!
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Frugal France The trophy for the lowest-cost accommodations unquestionably goes to the French. At the three largest budget motel chains of this elegant nation-Formule 1, Nuit d'Hotel, and PremiSre Classe-rates for one to three people start out at an amazing $20 a night per room, and seldom go higher than $30. Of course, $20 doesn't buy luxury. By comparison, rooms in a U.S. Motel 6 ...
