What is the different between a hotel and a motel?

Motel is short for "motor hotel". Most motels have doors that face out or are accesible from the outside instead of having to go through a lobby area to gain acces to the roon through inside doors.

Motels were introduced after WWII and were found along rural roads and highways. The motels that I see now in Virgina are all along the Route 1 corridor. Everything along interstate 95 tends to be hotels.

In todays day and age, I don't think that there are too many differences between the two. Heck, just look at the Motel 6 chain, they are part of Accor hotels.

Motel implies that you drive up to it in a Motor Vehicle. - So they are likely to have a substantial parking facilities be in less urban areas than a hotel.

the hotel is bigger than motel

the difrence is that a motel is smaller with less and is cheaper then a hotel