Thank you for asking.
I go a lot to either motels or hotels and I also think that the
difference between a motel and an hotel is mainly based on the design of
the place, not on the number of nights, the proximity to tourist
attractions or major highways or the cost of the land. Consequently I
disagree with most of your criteria in the "How to tell apart from
hotel" section and would reduce the list to objective criteria based on
the design of the place, i.e an high interaction between the parking lot
and the rooms (which often means that room access is made from the
parking lot). Everything else may be your criteria but are not objective
criteria IMHO.
Speaking of the difference with a guest house the main difference would
be: Is the owner a company (i.e. an incorporated business) with
employees (for check in, check out...) or is it a self-managed business?
I think the question applies also to hotels.
Also, I suggest you to sum up eveything in one Wiki page listing all
scenarios of sleeping places (camping, glamping, hotel, motel and guest
house), keeping the actual one as how to use the tags (not how to choose
the best one) instead of keeping 5 pages which will never (?) be aligned.
Yours,
LeTopographeFou
Le 23/12/2018 à 12:05, bkil a écrit :
Thank you for the insight, I'll try to figure out a better wording
there. I'm also considering to improve the wording of the guest house
and hotel articles in the future, though I'll need to find a way to do
this without adding too much redundancy.
Well, what I wanted to convey in those sentences was that I'd expect
the average booked nights per stay to be lower for a motel compared to
a hotel.
Compared to renting a flat, both motel and hotel stays are considered
short-term. However, if we used the exact same wording of simply
"short term" on both wiki articles, we would be missing the
opportunity for an important distinction: while one happily books a
whole week in a hotel for the sake of enjoying the leisure, services
and attractions nearby, motels by design have been more intended for
transit traffic.
Of course I'm not talking about a hard split, as in all or nothing.
Surely a number of people on the budget will stay at a motel and
commute from there daily to their real destinations simply because of
the cost savings, but I'd say that the core business model of most
motels relies (or have historically relied) on transient use.
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 11:17 AM Joseph Eisenberg
<joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The one concern I have is the new sentences that suggest that
hotels are “typically not [booked for ] single night” while motels
are usually booked for 1 night.
I have certainly stayed for 2 to 3 nights at a “Motel 6” and other
motels.
And I have never encountered problems booking rooms for a single
night at 3 and 3.5 star hotels for business trips.
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 6:34 PM bkil <bkil.hu
<http://bkil.hu>+a...@gmail.com <mailto:a...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've made a major rewording of this tag. Please review and
don't hesitate to comment or improve if I've mistakenly
changed the meaning of the tag:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Atourism%3Dmotel&type=revision&diff=1755686&oldid=1561324
Source: based on Wikipedia and recent mapping experience:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/65702446#map=9/47.1412/18.6632
It also looks like some have used the word motel for what
should have been pensions and guest houses around here, I'll
also fix these later.
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