The Amazing, Cinderella-Like Makeover of Motel 6
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, June, 2003 by Arthur Frommer
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When my colleagues learned I was planning to stay at a Motel 6 on my recent trip to Dallas/Fort Worth, they shrieked with laughter.
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They shouldn't have. My $43 room was in a brand-new structure built from the ground up and exciting in its high-tech touches: a triangular bathroom with every convenience, a tv hung from a corner of the ceiling so you could watch it while stretched out in bed. And the highlight was a wake-up call delivered in a familiar, deadpan bullfrog: "Hi, I'm Tom Bodett. And if you think this wake-up call is early, you should have seen how early I had to get up to make it." The venerable chain of Motel 6's, which was among the first of the economy motels more than 40 years ago, is now owned by the forward-thinking Accor Hotels (Sofitel, Novotel, Ibis, Etap, Formule 1) of France, third largest ...
