Motel 6 - The Good Old Days Have Been Gone for a While, Now This ...

If you had a dog and traveled a lot Motel 6 became, as the cliche goes, "your home away from home." The price itself was affordable. It also welcomed pets and that was without an add-on fee. Predictable was a clean room with everything you needed if you didn't require luxury. It was worth driving the extra miles to find one of its 1,500 locations. 

That was then. More recently on my cross-country travels, I opted for bunking with the competition. No longer was it the most affordable motel chain. Back in 2014, during my journey from New York to Arizona, a room ran about 50 bucks. Last April in my trip from Ohio back to Arizona that was closer to a 100. 

There have been better deals around among competitors. Yes, you might have to request the senior discount but it is usually there. In our pet-loving nation the hospitability industry got it that smart marketing mandated making provisions for four-legged children. No worries about Fido. In addition, the competition added perks such as free breakfast and a hair dryer in the room.

The good old days could become even more of a distant memory now that hotel enterprise Oyo, based in India, has purchased Motel 6's parent company from Blackstone. When that sort of transaction happens, we can usually anticipate upgrades which raise the prices.  

Around the holidays I plan to visit ghost towns in New Mexico. I have already ruled out staying at Motel 6.

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