Motel 6

Motel 6 is a large budget motel chain in the United States and southern Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1962 in Santa Barbara, California, when all rooms cost $6 a night—hence the company name. Depending on particular location and season, rooms now cost around $30 to $60 a night on average. Prices are typically advertised on a brightly-lit sign visible from nearby highways. Most of its locations are located near major interstate highways. In 1990, the company was bought by the French-based Accor.

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Unlike many motels, Motel 6 allows pets.

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Motel 6 may be best known for a series of light humored radio and television ads featuring the voice of writer Tom Bodett with the quote "We'll leave the light on for you".

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Motel: The word motel originates from the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, first built in 1925 by Arthur Heinman. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the motel (aka the motor hotel) referred initially to a single building of connected rooms whose doors face a parking lot and/or common area, and their cr...

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