I’m coming to visit you but I’ll be staying at a hotel so as not to be a bother, because I’m nice, dammit! Is there a reasonable, non-creepy hotel or motel close to where you live?
The closest to where I live is about 7 miles away, and it’s a local rather than a chain. But since there’s a Navy base about 20 miles away, in the 15-20 mile range, there are a LOT of choices in many price ranges. I don’t think a 30 minute drive is too unreasonable.
We visited my husband’s aunt in Indianapolis a few years back, and there were a few within 5 or 6 miles.My mom lives in the boonies and the nearest places to her are 20 miles away. Where I grew up in suburbia, there was a Holiday Inn less than a mile from our house, and my apartment in Coronado, CA back in the mid-70s was right across the street from a little motel.
So, how convenient would it be for a visitor to lodge elsewhere when visiting you?
There is one excellent hotel and one OK hotel about 7 miles from my home. There are also a few Air B&B options. The next nearest location with more hotel choices is about 30 minutes away.
It depends what kind of place you really want to be in. There’s a hotel about 10 minutes’ walk from my house in one direction, there’s a guest house/BnB the same distance in the opposite direction. If you want a slightly more up-market hotel, you’d need to go into town and that’s a little over a mile away.
I live in the rural outskirts between the Hampton Roads, Virginia cities of Suffolk and Franklin, closer to Franklin but technically still in Suffolk.
The nearest hotel to me that I’d classify as any good is a Quality Inn in Franklin, about six miles away. It’s a two-star hotel but has 3.6 stars on the more forgiving Google Maps app. I’ve been there. It’s decent.
There are Econo Lodges and Red Roof Inns between here and where my sister works, but the best lodgings in downtown Suffolk are probably at the Hilton Garden Inn. It’s about 15 miles from me.
0.4 miles. It’s nice enough that even when I was living 30 miles driving distance from here, my mom insisted on staying at the same hotel when she visited even though it’s just an unremarkable chain hotel.
Yeah. I do live in the middle of a city, so about 250 feet. If someone is living in the middle of a vast middle of nowhere, would you really not invite your guest into your home? There are not going to be any hotels.
I live on the edge of a fairly touristy town. At the end of my lane is an 18th century pub with rooms (5 minute walk), across the street from that is a very elegant Georgian B&B. If you want something closer, there’s an Airbanb next door-but-one to me, opposite the pub, which has 8 en suite rooms, and in the 15th century was the local court house. The jail was in a room above the pub - hopefully you wouldn’t be given that room.
In this picture you can see the Airbanb on the left, the pub (and old jail) on the right, and the blue building is the B&B.
There is a cluster of hotels about 3 and a half miles from my house. A Super 8 and Days Inn on the lower end of things, but the majority are in the “It’ll Do” tier, like Hampton Inn, Comfort Inn, Holiday Inn, and like that. Nothing nicer than that.
The US headquarters of Nissan and Mitsubishi plus that of a hospital chain are about six miles to my west, so there are a lot of options there. There are also a whole bunch of tow to four star hotels just off I-24, six miles to my east.
A Hyatt 0.8 miles, a Hilton-affiliated resort 0.7 miles, and a different serious fancy-pants resort / golf course / beach / etc. place 0.7 miles away. Those three are the very closest.
If you want the cheap(er) La Quinta or Doubletree by the freeway it’s 2.6 miles. Within about 7 miles I stopped counting after a couple dozen. And since I live near the shore that radius is only about a 180 degree hemicircle; the other hemicircle is full of fish.
Living in a tourist Mecca has its (dis-)advantages.
Is there a reasonable, non-creepy hotel or motel close to where you live?