Motel 6 vs. Super 8 

"We'll leave the light on for you" being completely spontaneous is another example of how being genuine and spontaneous is SO MUCH BETTER than trying to force stuff 99% of the time. So good!

My friend was a front desk worker at a super 8 in our town. They had a bed bug problem that she kept reporting to the owners they wouldn't do anything about it so she reported them to the health department. The owners fired her she ended up sueing them for a wrongful fire and one let's just say she didn't have to work for a while lol

I think a video comparing the hotel mega chains would be interesting. Marriott, Choice hotels (comfort/quality inn), Wyndham (noted here), etc. The industry has come to be dominated by half a dozen mega chains with dozens of famous sub brands.

With them both being franchised, everyone is going to have varying opinions on which chain is better based on they're experience with a specific location(s). Franchise operators tend to be very inconsistent from one to another when compared to corporate run locations.

Fond memories of the family going on vacation, staying at a Super 8 while on the road, and getting KFC to bring back to the room. It was practically tradition.

I stay at Motel 6 on long road trips. The ones I stayed at in Tucson and El Paso wore both great. They were clean, good AC, bed was adequate, TV worked fine. For $50, I was pretty happy and honestly pretty surprised by how clean it was.

Great video once again, Company Man!

Honestly, motel 6 hasn't been that bad from the times i have stayed there. It's definitely not the best place to stay at all, but for being a place to stay on a budget, it's not the worst. Super 8 on the other hand. I remember my family and I booked a night to stay there over a long weekend in san diego near hotel circle. First off, it's full of shady characters hanging out outside of the hotel. Our room was on the top floor and we had to walk up the stairs to get to it. It was probably midnight or so and nearly half of the motel occupants were hanging out outside. We got side eyed by everyone we passed by. Then, we got to our room and it was digusting. Flys flying around, bathroom was full of gnats, some kind of small insects crawling around the sink. Absolutely disgusting. The beds smelled weird, I can almost guarantee there were bed bugs on the bed. But, what made us decide to leave was the fact that the fridge was leaking. My nephew pointed it out by saying his socks were wet. We immediately left. When we told the service desk the situation, they were giving us a hard time and saying that "well, thats the room that you booked!" After some back and forth the manager reluctantly gave us a refund. After that we looked everywhere for a room elsewhere, but since it was a long weekend literally everywhere was completely booked. Not sure if other super 8 motels are better, but i definitely wouldn't even bother to give it another shot after my past experience.

I'm a very blue collar, no-frills guy who's stayed at both and never had any problems with either. Rooms have been a bit shabby and outdated at times but I've never had any problems with legitimate filth or bugs or safety concerns. When I visit a new town I just want a place that's relatively clean and quiet where I can safely store my belongings during the day while I explore and crash for the night, and both of these chains have served me just fine in that regard over the years. I'll always try to save myself a few hundred bucks at one of these if I'm on vacation for a week or so and have the option.

I would also add red roof inn to the economy hotel list…

I'm always happy to stay at a very minimalistic, economical hotel/motel, but I do have two complaints about these two chains: (1) There are exceptions, but far too many of them are located in very sketchy areas, and as a woman who travels alone a LOT, I'm simply not comfortable even stopping there a lot of the time. And (2) when I HAVE stayed at them, all too often -- I'd say maybe two thirds of the time or more -- they're not only bare bones (which I don't mind at all), but also very dirty (which I very much do mind). For years my chain of choice was La Quinta and they were great but they've degenerated badly in recent years and are often too run down and dirty to feel safe. Today I almost always choose Quality Inn/Suites and so far, so good. Not fancy at all, but I generally pay $50-60/night and it's always clean, they have a good breakfast, and the staff is almost invariably friendly and helpful. Locations vary, of course, but I highly recommend it overall.

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A couple years ago I flew to Kansas to buy a Cadillac wagon and road tripped home down Route 66 (highly recommend the car and that road trip), anyways, I rolled into Flagstaff, AZ on day three and started calling around to different hotels. Turns out there was some huge event that weekend and everywhere was booked. My last call was to Motel 6, who did have ONE room available.. they wanted $450 for the night. Long story short, it’s a good thing I bought a wagon cause it made a damn good RV for the night.

I've been to Motel 6 quite a few times while cruising up/down the Sierra Nevadas on either HW395 or Interstate 5. I always found their rooms to be decent and clean and I highly prefer them if I need to take a break. $40-$50 a room is a sweet deal when compared to rinky dink tourists traps econo-motels who charge double or more. I hear less flattering things about motel 6 in bigger towns and cities though, dirty and car break-ins/thefts, but I tend to avoid going to those places altogether.

I stayed at over 200 Super 8 motels when I worked for the parent company, and have seen the entire spectrum from them...

Professional traveler here…Motel 6 is an absolute last ditch option while some Super 8 locations are actually pretty decent. (My usual preference being Hampton or Holiday Inn Express)

Where I live we had a Super 8 right off the interstate. When it shuttered it's doors, a local owner came in and took over.... But they put a 9 over the 8. It was our own special Super 9 motel. It went out of business too.

One of the funnier comedy bits I ever heard on a local radio station was a spoof of Motel 6 ads; "I'm Tom Beelzebub for Motel 666, and we'll leave the flaming goat out for ya."

I grew up staying in those. But as my parents got older and more financially stable, they were more than happy to start staying at Holiday Inn and Best Western. AARP gets them discounts, too, lol. I like to sleep in the car. I'm more of a camper-road tripper. Anything to avoid the fuss of a hotel. I like keeping everything in arm's reach and not have to rearrange anything.

When my family first moved to Texas 20 years ago. We were waiting for our house to be built and we actually "lived" at a super 8 for a couple weeks/months. Some of the best times 😅😅

I went out of town years back and was going to stay at a Holiday Inn, but when they asked for a huge deposit, I went to a Motel 6 that just happened to be nest door. Saved alot of money!

I'm just sticking with Average 7.

I look forward to your videos. The videos are very informative and. educational. You have a perfect voice for the videos. Thank you.

I've stayed at Super 8 and La Quinta. never been to motel 6. super 8 was alright. Highly recomend you doing a video about la Quinta as they were amazing and still not too terribly expensive. they also offered a 10% discount for next time we stayed there for a vacation.

I stayed at both multiple times. I prefer Super8s. They have shampoo, alarm clocks & often times the breakfast areas have waffle irons. That said, Motel 6s, in my experience anyway, are usually a little cheaper. If they're close on price, I'll stay at a Super8, even if it's a little more expensive. But I often stay at Motel 6s because, well, because I'm cheap is why. Motel 6s always seemed like downmarket Super8s to me. There is a lot of variability in both hotel chains, with pretty good ones and pretty bad ones in both organizations.

The last time I stayed at a motel 6 was after college while job hunting. It was cheap and clean, exactly what I needed. There were smaller mom and pop places that I’ve been to after that that were nowhere near as nice. Next month I’ll be staying at an ocean-front resort where the daily parking fees costs half as much as that original Motel 6 stay. But this time I am going for business+pleasure, and I will be staying multiple days so now the amenities matter.

My mom made the mistake of getting one of these motels on a trip to Maryland. It was a Motel 6 and it was very run down. It stunk like smoke, it was in a dangerous part of town, spit on the walls and was cramped. Worst experience of my life!

Motel 6 used to be some of the worst rooms I've stayed in but a few years ago they put money into a lot of renovations that have worked well. Super 8 is a crap shoot, some are run down and nasty, others are passable.

One of the bad winter storms here in North Texas that knocked out our power because the grid could not handle it. My wife and I stayed at a motel 6 and it turns out that the room was a suite. I’m like great, we don’t have to eat out. We can just go and get food from the grocery store which saved us some serious money while we weathered the bad winter storm.

I've stayed at locaqtions of both chains, and in my, albeit limited experience, I've generally found Super 8 to be the more pleasant to stay in -- more "homey," vs. the almost sterile feel of the Motel 6 locations I've visited. And given the opportunity, I find Red Roof Inn to be only slightly more expensive, and a far superior experience...but their coverage is limited in many parts of the country, such as the Southwest.

the main thing i remember about super 8 was their ads on speed network involving a guest getting involved in various shenanigans with a talking super 8 sign, like swimming in his room or whatever

I used to visit this super 8 every other week because we lived on an island off the California coast and we would visit Long Beach often, and there was this amazing super 8 there, and it had the best service, such clean rooms, and the nicest pool area I’ve seen at a budget motel, the owner knew my family and I by name, and always treated us almost like family and not just us either. We went there for years and around 2016 was our last time visiting, we wanted to go recently but apparently they fell on hard times after the pandemic and they shut down and never came back. A recent look at google street view showed that it was demolished and flattened out, turned into a parking lot. It’s very sad but I’ll never forget the memories and people my family and I met while we stayed there! We had a couple other super 8’s we also enjoyed in the area but after visiting them they’ve all turned into your regular ran down motel with rude staff and dirty rooms and a pool that’s not even open.

Fun fact, Bill Elliott was sponsored by Super 8 and his team was given free stays at any motel in the country. Apparently the team stayed at Hiltons and Holiday Inns after the first year 😂

I started my management career working for Motel 6. They promoted within and it was the best moment in my life

The founder of Super 8 more recently started a new chain aimed at nicer amenities at a lower price. Also in South Dakota.

Used to prank call the same motel 6 in Texas for years. Shoutout to you, Richard!

In my limited experience, Days Inn always felt a step up from Motel 6/Super 8. Maybe be bias though...my family always stayed at Days Inn and we never had any problems, though the others always looked a bit rougher. Might have to do with the fact that we were in SE US.

I've stayed at both chains many, MANY times and always got a clean bed for the night, but nothing to write home about. I used to select the cheapest option when traveling alone, but more upscale hotels when traveling with a lady. Now that I'm older, I select low or moderately priced business-class hotels with parking, Wi-Fi, and breakfast included in the price. I have nine hotel nights scheduled for the rest of this summer, and eight of them are at La Quinta, Comfort Inn, or Sleep Inn locations, plus one night at a Days Inn.

I stayed at one Super 8 in Florida was great. large clean rooms, comfortable beds. No complaints. But then a different Super 8 I stayed at once in Missouri was dirty, smelled, and had mold growing in the bathtub. Don't remember ever staying at a Motel 6

Even as a kid, when I had no concept of these two being competitors, I noticed how similar they seemed. If I ever wrote a story where a scene took place at a motel, I thought it would be funny to merge them into a “super motel 68” I have stayed at a motel 6 once for a trip with my family to go to my step dad’s sister’s quarantine not too long ago. I obviously recognized the name, but I had no idea is was specifically advertised as a budget hotel. We get there past midnight after a day long drive from east Texas to El Paso. They give us a room on the 3rd floor, but when we walk in we notice the bathroom had it’s ENTIRE mirror ripped off, and there was nothing left there except for some mysterious black runny stain. It was like some void was dripping from the walls. I wait in the hallway with my siblings while my parents go downstairs to the front office to ask about what’s up. They come back to tell us that we got a new room on the first floor, but it was right beside the front and entrance. The room was alright, but we could here every time someone was there coming in late at night or leaving. Knowing now that it’s a budget hotel, you definitely get what you pay for, so most complaints are more so just on us I guess. Things like having to use an ice chest to keep cold stuff and refilling the ice when it all melts (they had a microwave at the front, so that’s cool) or how I brought my Nintendo Switch thinking I would be able to connect it to the TV… it didn’t have HDMI. One real complaint I had though was the soap. They have one single bar of soap that came with the room, and that you could ask for more of. It barely 3 inches long, and extremely thin, like you could cut yourself after a couple uses if you thinned out the edges. We were a family of 5, and it was all we had for BOTH the sink and shower. We thankfully bought our own.

In July of 1989, I was on vacation, staying at the Waldorf Hotel in London, UK. Exactly one week later, I was on a job interview and they put me up at the Motel 6 in Yuma, AZ. There were differences in the two lodgings, but none that were terribly significant to me. The beds were comfortable, there was a TV, they each folded the toilet paper into a little point on the roll. Sometimes it is worth paying for the experience and many times it is not. I don't think I've stayed in a Motel 6 in about 10 years, and when I did it was because I was staying in a small desert town in the middle of nowhere.

The mst3k line when a movie showed a burning torch in a wall sconce "well leave the torch on for ya"... always made me laugh...

I've stayed at both and it's always a gamble. Occasionally I'll get something like the hot water not working, loud neighbors or a weak Wi-Fi connection, but never bugs or anything really gross. Usually everything's fine. At one Motel 6, however, I discovered something left behind in the room by the previous occupants: a cat. The bed was made and the bathroom was clean, so either he somehow got in after the housekeeping staff finished or else he stayed remarkably hidden while they were there. Turned out it was the latter. When I told the guy at the front desk about my unexpected roommate he said the people in the room the night before had spent over an hour looking for the cat thinking he got outside and finally gave up. When we got back to the room the cat had vanished, but where we eventually found him was inside the box spring mattress where he wouldn't have been seen with a quick look under the bed. Front desk guy said he would call the people and tell them the cat was fine and to come get him. Didn't bother me since I love animals and was happy that this lost cat would be reunited with his family, but I made a very thorough check of the floor and was impressed at how well the cat had held his bladder throughout the day...

I do a lot of touring on my motorcycle and like to camp. I’ll camp a couple of days and then hit a motel for the third day to clean up. I’ve noticed over the past 10 or 15 years that Motel 6 is generally a week-by-week motel and has laborers as guests where Super 8 is more of a day-by-day motel with travelers. Given a choice, it’s Super 8 although it always depends on what’s close by when I decide to hit a motel :)

6:35 that super 8 photo was taken in the city i live in! i know because we're always driving past it lol. super cool!

Love this guy's intro

I used to work at a Super 8. I will say that all travelers should pay attention to the reviews. Some franchise owners do not care if their property is run down, while others make sure their property is clean. Don't judge by the name or a past experience at one. All owners are different with various levels of expectations. Also, treat the front desk person with kindness. They likely get yelled at for policies out of their control far too often.

I had stayed at both Motel 6 and Super 8 waaaaay back in the late 1970s, when my parents took us on a road trip from Iowa to the US Midwest to the Pacific Northwest (rental car), and then flew back. Fun times!

Penske vs Ryder Truck Leasing would be a good corporate rivalry video

As someone who likes treating myself to a "getaway" at local hotels on a regular basis, I've long been a member of the reward programs for two big chains, IHG and Choice. After a house fire, I racked up a boatload of points when my insurance company put me up at a Staybridge Suites for months while my house was restored, so for quite a while afterward, I got to do even more hotel stays than usual. I think the franchise model has caused a downward spiral in quality in hotels. The market will only bear so high a rate for rooms, and with so many different ones competing with each other in most locations, that rate isn't easily going to generate profit for BOTH the franchisor and franchisee. Maintenance and upgrades get deferred, and it doesn't take long for things to go downhill. Any economic disruption (like the pandemic), and the hotel owners find themselves in way over their head, so far below brand standards that there's no way for them to get back up to them without a cash infusion. Who's going to pump in the cash? Not corporate; the point of the franchise model is, from their point of view, to be OUT of the business of actually running hotels.

Back in the 70s, we stayed at Motel 6 a lot, but not since then. Quality seemed to have gone down. I delivered Jimmy John's to a Motel 6 a couple of years ago. Sketchy location and guests.

1:32-1:43 - Incidentally, Wendy’s surpassed Burger King as the second most popular fast food hamburger chain in the last year or so.

In the 90s work had me "on the road" all the time. All I needed was a place sleep and clean up, so I stayed at all budget chains, at one time or another, including both of these. Sometimes they didn't have a presence in the area, so I stayed in a full service hotel, such as Hilton or Marriott. The company reimbursed me, but the primary concern was availability. Just as long as wasn't sharing my bed with the roaches.

i love staying in motels when im on the road. bring a console and some beer/food you're good to go

As a firm believer in “we’ll have fun when we get there,” I’m a big fan of budget motels.

Motel 6 always leaves the light on for me

8:51 I thought I recognized Bishop California :)

Stayed at a motel 6 recently. The room looked clean and simple. But the walls and doors were paper thin. You heard everything. There was this weird feeling of dirtiness in the room. It didn’t look dirty or smell or anything but it felt like a garbage can that was cleaned and scrubbed. The stairway had a used condom in it. There was an Arby’s next door so that was a plus. Or minus for some people. Over all 4/10.

in louisiana lafayette there is a super 7 next to a motel 6 with a super 8 across the street

in Rock Springs, Wyoming there is a Motel 6, and a technically legally distinct Motel 8, some dive place that is really hoping that people won't notice it isnt actually Super 8 until it is too late

Great work as always. Can you make a video on Halliburton, on your bigger then you know series

I stayed in a Super 8 for a month once. The accommodations were just fine but it tended to get rowdy on weekends and holidays. Usually alcohol was involved. That's just one location... I have stayed in plenty of other 8s with no bar-room brawls at all.

I've always had good experiences at Motel 6. The big one in Anaheim off the 5 Fwy Katella exit (w/ the Disneyland theme and shuttles) has business-class rooms on the top floor, so it feels a step up in luxury compared to other ones. 😊

A couple of years ago, I went on a tour in Northern California, and I must say that the Motel 6 in Lodi is absolute Heaven on Earth, as long as you're coming from either the University Inn in Chico or the Budget Inn & Suites in Stockton. Those were the two worst hotel experiences of my life, and both times, we followed up that life-threatening experience with a wonderfully adequate night at Lodi's Motel 6. It's the little things you appreciate. The doors actually latch shut. The toilet doesn't run. The tv doesn't have gang signs etched into the screen. No roaches. No loud parties in the parking lot all night with frequent outbursts of "I"ll fucking kill you!" Clearly, when John Fogerty lamented being stuck in Lodi, he wasn't staying at the Motel 6.

Days Inn being the Wendy's of Motel 6's McDonalds vs. Super 8's Burger King is quite possibly the biggest endorsement of Days Inn out there.

I've stayed at a few Super8s in the NE US, but have been Marriott loyal for many years now.

Can you do a vid comparing MGM hotels/resorts and Caesars resorts? Two huge rival companies. Would be interesting to know how it started and how it's going 😁

As a 80s kid who's family roadtripped everywhere, we stayed at them all Ramada was, "luxury," back then. 😂😂

Imagine being the ceo of motel 6 and hearing that they made a super 8 and franchised it first I’d be so mad

*09:13** That reminds me of Reagan’s, “Morning Again in America” Presidential ad campaign.*

I haven't stayed at either, but having had some bad experiences with other discount lodging brands, I prefer to spend the extra cash to stay at the mid-tier places.

1:08 Motel 6 isn't "a privately owned company", it's owned by Blackstone, a publicly traded company with 900 billion in assets. Ticker: BX on the NYSE

Never used them when I traveled for work. Company would foot the bill on the seediest local places in whatever town I was headed to. Some were good, some were not, but I always liked the notion of supporting a local economy vs sending money elsewhere when I could.

I had to stay at a Motel 6 in Little Rock Arkansas in 2019 for two nights once. It sucked big time. They had drunken homeless passed out under the stairwells outside with their pants down around their ankles, drunken fights in the parking lots, Police evicting tenants from rooms and maid service personnel actually got into a fight with some tenant at one point. Non stop yelling all night and at one point, some whigged out tweeker knocking on the next room door at 230 AM yelling and wanting to party. WTF ?? Seriously rough, scary stuff. BUT, to be fair, I also stay at one in Arizona and it was the best. Clean landscaped grounds, really friendly personnel, a breakfast bar, great pool area and they had a BBQ pit. (people were grilling and it was an open invite) Really clean, modern rooms. It was so enjoyable that I choose to stay 3 more nights and met some really nice people too. So, I suppose location and who manages it makes the difference.

stayed at a motel 6 down in south carolina, served it purpose zero complaints.

Never stayed at a motel 6, but stayed at several Super 8s when Inwas in college going to conferences and stuff. All of them were dirty, horribly kept, and I hardly trusted the beds not to be full of bed bugs. They got me through the years, but I told myself now that I have a good job there was no way I was going to stay at one again

Burger King v. McDonalds v Wendys? Lettuce have this discussion please.

You underestimate the advertising value that Bill Elliott had back in the day. The man won the most favorite driver award so many times that he had started to voluntarily take himself off the ballot to give either drivers a chance. From 85 up through the 90's Bill Elliot was the hottest shit in a Thunderbird and eventually Taurus you could find.

To be honest for the most part the only major difference I've noticed between these two and the more expensive places is how clean they are. Usually for one night I don't mind it being a bit unclean unless it's awful

The super 8 by me a few friends stayed there for my wedding. They loved them

Stayed at a motel 6 with 3 family members and a buddy back in the day. Walking back to the motel from a dennys not but 30 feet away a homeless. Man asks us for change which we give him of course. After the fact he yelled in a passed off voice HEY! Started reaching in his pocket and we all Scattered in different directions thinking were gonna die until we all ran back to the motel, locked the door and equipped our steak knives of fear. We were very young lol

As my job has me traveling all across the US I can say that Motel 6 is usually pretty nice, but Wyndham Properties are all over the place. Usually don't stay at a Super8 however lol

While both were "budget" for the time today they are low/mud range pricing wise based on where they are at

I’m just bucking up the extra 50 bucks to stay at a Holiday, Hampton, or Fairfield Inn. Bed bugs are scary.

My Mom and I tried to stay in a Motel 6 one night, but when we got in there we noticed that the sheets were dirty (like, visibly what appeared to be grass stains or worse were on them) and the room stank. I was willing to just sit up all night on Wi-Fi while my Mom slept because I couldn't, but she insisted on getting the money back... and we were so nervous about the cheap hotels after that, that we just wound up going to the nearest Mariott, because we knew for sure those hotels probably wouldn't have dirty sheets on the beds. I mean, I get it is a cheap hotel, but you'd think they could at least be bothered to clean the sheets after a guest stays... I just assumed that was the bare minimum, but I guess you have to get a fancy hotel for that kind of service nowadays. I think the chain used to be a bit better about that about 10 years ago, but I mean... that place was the definition of a roach motel, it looked like it was being used as a homeless shelter or something. I guess the economy now is such that you either pay through the nose to get the level of service you used to get at less expensive places, or you are assumed to be desperate and poor enough to deal with homeless shelter conditions. The Marriot was double the price of the Motel 6 (Motel 6 was $80 and the Mariott was $170), but it was much nicer and at least we didn't have to pay for breakfast the next morning. We had considered staying at the cheaper motel for two nights, but we decided to just use the next day's hotel budget on the Mariott for one night and go straight home since the trip had been a disaster anyway for other reasons.

I did long distance with my fiancée (girlfriend at the time) and we stayed at both motel 6 and super 8 a few times at our halfway point. After our experiences we vowed to never stay at these places again, cheap yes but there’s a reason why. Pubic hair on the toilets, sketchy loud neighbors and smoke stench made for an easy decision to upgrade. Fortunately now we live together but if we ever travel we go with Marriot but lowest would be La Quinta.

Funny how in Flagstaff, Arizona along the freeway and side by side are both closed. 😢😅

1:32 Super 8 and Days Inn are owned by the same parent company Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

I tend to stay at Mo6 when I'm travelling. Not luxe rooms. But cheap and readily available.

I've stayed at a few Motel 6's, but not in recent years. From my limited and dated experience, one was bordering on sketchy and in dire need of a refresh, but was at least clean, if depressing in ambiance. The other few were all pretty decent and places I would have stayed again, if I had needed to.

there was a super 8 near my house that has recently become a comfort inn which is in the weirdest spot i have ever seen for a hotel. in the parking lot of a Lowes and Walmart with nothing else of note in any direction for a good 8-12 miles.

The best super 8 to stay at is the one on I5 at the buttonwillow exit. On track day at the racetrack it funny to see all this expensive cars in the parking lots of a super8

I stayed and both are awesome but the larger of the rooms are in super 8 in my opinion keep up the great content have a great weekend

I didn't stay in many motels as a kid. I didn't know that we were actually going on vacation. We went camping a lot. I hated camping. I still hate camping. The first time I went on vacation on my own I went and stayed at my aunt's house. So it was the second time. It was 1980. I was 21. And we stayed at a motel 6 in Pasadena. I can't say for sure that's true but I'm almost positive. We had driven across almost the entire country from Virginia Beach to Pasadena in In a very small number of days because we left early but then the car started breaking down. So we stayed in some really fun places like the parking lot of a gas station on a Saturday night in Cumberland Maryland. Some place I will never remember in Bristol Virginia on Sunday night. And on Monday We got up and drove from Bristol to Pasadena and arrived Wednesday at 2:00 in the afternoon. It is a good thing that we had two people driving but One time I did look out the car window on the passenger side to see a double yellow line. Thankfully we were in the middle of nowhere. I spent a lot of time from then staying in motel 6 until maybe 1989 when our motel 6 in Arcadia California looked like it was in the middle of a gang zone. We gave up and went to Best Western. I've never stayed in a super 8. And I don't think I've ever seen any of their commercials. I didn't hear the motel 6 commercials until years after we stayed there. I have stayed in motel 6's which were very nice and one's where there was Grease from trucks I think all over the floor and it was right next to the highway where the trucks rattled by all night long. On the other hand I have never had an asthma attack caused by a motel 6, which is something I cannot say of any of the old type motels that we stayed in when we didn't stay in motel 6. When you've gone to the ER twice in a row you do wish you could find a motel 6. Failing that, We gave up drove back from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts and stayed in some other unremembered chain somewhere in New York. I wish I could remember what it was called. I almost stayed in a super 8 after tropical storm Francis took out our electricity for 4 days in 2004 but I didn't have any money. But I swear if it had gone One more day... Of course there probably weren't any rooms. Instead we spent part of one evening in the waiting room of the ER at the local hospital where they took my mother. We were very excited to have light, air conditioning and television. Unfortunately after a while I had to go home to my dark hot house. Oh and we left the house long after the ambulance did and arrived long before they located my mother. They did eventually find her. I think that greasy floor banging trucks motel 6 in Westminster California was the worst one I was ever in. But probably just because my husband objected to the one in Arcadia. The day afterwards The one in Yuma was very nice. I'm thrifty. What I'm looking for in a hotel is a bed a bathroom something that's clean no bugs and yes these days Wi-Fi would be nice. Oh and climate control. The one we stayed in in Denver had not yet switched over to its fall heating season and so it was snowing outside and all we had was air conditioning. At 2:30 in the morning when you've been in the air for a long time and your roommate doesn't realize that she actually has the suitcase with her pajamas, heat is a nice thing to have. I don't remember having any similar problems with lack of air conditioning. Unfortunately after Westminster my faith in motel 6 sort of dwindled. Although I did stay in a comfort inn - is that the cheapest one - in Norfolk in 2008 which was scary and not very clean. And for a few nights in 2006 or 2008 I stayed in an amazingly expensive hotel in DC - do they really have any other kind? - with two king size beds and three roommates, all of whom snored. I told myself it was a comforting sound meant to put me to sleep, and I fell asleep. And then there was a Red Roof inn in florissant Missouri that wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.

Love watching your videos, it's very cool that you gather so much information about the companies from beginning to end or present. I would love to know what happened to Brach's Marshmallow Easter Hunt Eggs. They were so popular they would sell out every year and now you can"t find them anywhere. Thanks in advance!

Tom and cheaper rooms are the reason I always go to 6

There were other honorable mention categories like Amount of Crimes and Health Code Violations

Great video! Very interesting.

Motel 6 has and always will be my go to motel if I'm on the road,

Motel 6 and Super 8 are both places I'm very familiar with, but only from a distance. At least in my hometown, they were considered unclean and had poor reputations. Basically, people joked they were the best place to go if you wanted to get bed bugs or roaches. I know that price point doesn't mean anything in terms of whether or not a motel will have pests, but since that was their reputation, I can't shake it. If I stayed in one, I'd be too paranoid to sleep and scratching myself constantly. I guess it doesn't help any that my father-in-law went to a Super 8 for a hookup, came back to crash at my husband's place, and gave him bed bugs. Basically, I think I'd consider sleeping in my car before I'd sleep at a Motel 6 or Super 8. I'd find literally any other solution.