automobile / motorcar

[James A. Landau]

On  9/7/02 at 10:54:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time buchmann at bellsouth.net WROTE:

>tourist cabin,-s
>tourist lodge
>tourist court
>motor lodge
>motor hotel
>motel
>motor inn

To me a "motel" is a one-story  (or at most two-story) building in which each
guest room has an outside door which leads to the parking lot.

A "motor hotel" has three or more stories, with each room opening onto an
interior hallway rather than the outside, but with sufficient parking for all
rooms and easy access to the parking lot from all rooms.

A "tourist court" is a bed-and-breakfast.

"Motor inn" and "motor lodge" are simply fancy names for a "motor hotel".

     - Jim Landau

P.S. at the cast party following a recent performance of "Fiddle on the
Roof", it was announced what happened to the various characters after they
were exiled from Anatevka.

Lazar Wolf used his expertise to go into the meat business, eventually
starting a restaurant that became the "Wolfie's" chain.  Mottel Kamzoil
opened a tailor shop in New Jersey, but he discovered that most of the people
coming into his shop didn't need tailoring but rather wanted directions to
someplace to stay for the night.  So at the suggestion of his sister-in-law
Hottel, he started renting out rooms.  His sign-painter however goofed and
instead of saying "Mottel's Inn" the sign read "Motel".