Luxury hotels might seem like the ultimate for traveling in style, but in the U.S. there's a whole world of roadside motels ...

Motels – those roadside inns that are such a big part of Americana – are making a comeback. RLH Corp., formerly known as Red Lion Hotels, recently unveiled its first Signature hotel in San Francisco.

Motels proliferated as the road trip became a part of American life in the 1920s. The word “motel” is literally a portmanteau of motor and hotel that originates from the Milestone Mo-Tel built in 1925 ...

Accommodation is a huge factor when booking vacations. But too often, travelers focus on price rather than the hotel star ratings. With all things being equal, does the star rating matter? Yes. In ...

Little kids line up in white graduation caps and gowns. Family members pose for formal photos at a wedding. Cousins laugh as they cut into the frosting of a giant birthday cake. These scenes from Amar ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A fast-moving fire that killed four college students in a suburban Birmingham motel illustrates a deadly problem facing travelers around the country: Many ...

With only one letter of variance between them, you might think hotels and motels don't differ much from each other. And, to some extent, that's true — though the similarities mostly exist on a surface ...