EPISODE · Jul 11, 2023 · 22 MIN
Playing The Hotel Name Game
from No Show · host Jeff Borman and Matt Brown
Wait, the Intercontinental is related to Pan Am? Holiday Inn really came from a movie? Motel 6 was (briefly) $6 a night? Doubletree was just because the land surveyed had two trees on it? Jeff and Matt explore the naming origins of hotels big and small.The more you know:https://www.panam.org/about/606-across-the-pacific-filmhttps://www.cnn.com/travel/article/holiday-inn-70th-anniversary/index.html
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Wait, the Intercontinental is related to Pan Am? Holiday Inn really came from a movie? Motel 6 was (briefly) $6 a night? Doubletree was just because the land surveyed had two trees on it? Jeff and Matt explore the naming origins of hotels big and small. The more you know: https://www.panam.org/about/606-across-the-pacific-film https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/holiday-inn-70th-anniversary/index.html
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