Now, imagine the dingiest Motel 6 room, Farai, you've ever stayed in.

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Motel 6 or Econo Lodge, I believe those are your options.

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Red Roof Inn and Motel 6 are economy brands that are hard to get a return on if you build a new one using their prototype.

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She squints at me and holds a blue-lacquered fingernail to her lips, as though she were about to land a luxury suite down at the Motel 6.

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The only good thing about Motel 6 is its potential value as a Cornell case study about the direct relationship between bad hotel sales and marketing and bad hotel security.

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J. were camping out at a Motel 6 in Palo Alto and getting ready to drive to Pittsburgh, where they planned on starting the company at their alma mater, Carnegie Mellon.

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The U.S. saw the rise of budget hotels coast to coast in the 1960s, as Comfort Inns, Motel 6, Days Inn and Super 8 hotels sprung up near major highway exits.

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The Blackstone Group bought it about a year ago, but I can pretty much promise you even without even asking them: unlike LaQuinta Inns, Motel 6 will not become a Hilton brand.

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