Hints and tips:
...It will be the third in the Mollie’s chain, a motel, bar and diner concept created by Soho House founder Nick Jones to offer budget-luxe accommodation....
...That is, a succession of travertine tiles that had been cut from a quarry in Italy, numbered and then reassembled some 5,000 miles away in the lobby of a high-rise tower in Florida....
...There is the futuristic La Concha Motel, a dazzling confection of intersecting parabolic forms. (La Concha’s lobby is now the entrance to the Museum of Neon.)...
...Roadside motels have, in turn, surged in popularity. With no indoor lobbies, elevators or corridors for visitors to navigate, they make social distancing easier....
...Between NE 50th and NE 77th there is a wealth of surviving buildings, notably motels and auto showrooms that have mostly been adapted for different purposes and are still recognisable as good examples of...
...Last summer she bought what was formerly the Poindexter Motel....
...You may have to skulk around the hotel lobby, dreaming of icy gin, while you wait for a table to open up. It’s worth it....
...Think of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining, the Bates Motel in Psycho or the Tokyo Park Hyatt in Lost in Translation, these hotels and motels are as deeply implicated in the movie memories as the characters...
...One of them had passed through the lobby the previous evening. But there had been no sign of them since. At 1.06pm, the police took a call from the motel....
...Claustrophobia is induced not by confinement — the garish, kitschy lobby is as big as a football field — but by the mad, intricate, tail-chasing script....
...Across the road is the Pioneertown Motel, whose lobby shed — surrounded by artfully curated cacti — has become the most Instagrammed spot in town....
...Motor City in 1967 is a tinderbox of privation and prejudice that soon erupts in flames, the Algiers Motel becoming the stage for a tragedy shot in a visceral vérité style....
...Eventually a local picked them up in his truck and drove them to a local motel, where they spent the night....
...In the lobby hang black-and-white photographs of the hostel’s original founders, grandparents-in-law of the incumbent....
...It used to be a motel called the Howard Johnson.”...
...And then the next morning the building’s lobby smelled like . . . cinnamon candy? Huh? Yes, cinnamon candy....
...There’s nothing so commonplace as a reception desk in a hotel lobby....
...WalMart’s executives are expected to share motel rooms, after all, and their employer makes consistent profits....
...On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was killed in a motel by a single bullet from a rifle. Two months later, Robert Kennedy was shot dead....
...“It’s right in the centre of town but as soon as you walk into its lobby you don’t feel like you’re in Montauk any more,” shrugs a bemused surfer I talk to later....
...“In Vegas, I could sing in places, but I could not eat there or sleep there or sit in the lobby. Idlewild was altogether different.”...
...With a bright, airy lobby decorated with colourful seating and stained-glass installations, the Lemon Tree Gurgaon promises cost-conscious travellers a respite from the hustle of a busy New Delhi satellite...
...A portly, well-known Englishman appeared on movie screens, showing the audience round a seedy motel. The motel seemed to be in middle America and the Englishman seemed, to some, to be off his trolley....
...We padded to the lobby where a mounted television was tuned to the terror on CNN. I ate a plastic-wrapped “Berry Horn” Danish. And I thought: “This trip might just go right.”...
...From the Phoenix hotel – a quirkily converted 1950s motel with a Hockney-style pool – I make my way across town to the Institute of Art on Russian Hill....
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