HotelChatter

Les writes:

Being a one man business who travels yearly from SoCal to the NY City area, from Central Florida to Seattle and 20 other spots between, I pay my own expenses and generally use a motel for less than 10 per day.

I have found many times that the Motel 6 chain's newer stores have had the best "bang for the buck" for those not interested in impressing others with a name.

All of that said, the chain has added WiFi in most of their locations in the past few months.   I have had great results with their wireless, often transferring gigs of files (high resolution photography) without any problem.  

While the "company stores" charge $2.99 for 24 hours of access (beginning with your first log on), I have yet to find a franchise Motel 6 that charges for WiFi service.

Motel 6, which is owned by Accor Hotels who also run Novotels and Sofitels here in North America, has just unveiled a new room prototype called the Phoenix which makes the brand and its free WiFi a lot more appealing. Will we be logging in next time from a Motel 6 on one of our many adventures? It's looking likely.