Weird Harold
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I assume you mean other than the lodge at the hotsprings?If we have room for "development" to the south of Slippery Richard Road, can we have a fairly decent Hotel round there please?
My character is going to have problems with the friendly lot.
I don't see any reason that there wouldn't be temporary lodgings of several levels of cost/luxury, but I wouldn't expect a five-star Luxury Hotel in competition with the lodge.
I would expect a town with the history of Horner Springs to have an old Historic Hotel in or near the old town center which may or may not have been in continuous opperation as a Hotel or had periods of other uses -- or multi-purposing. Old Hotels that can't compete with Motor Courts and Motel chains make nice bordellos for the officer class of wartime occupiers (the brass at the airbase during the war.)
I would expect the best accomodations in town to be a relatively modern four-star Holiday Inn or Best Western franchise -- the kind of Holiday Inn cross between a pure hotel and pure motel that includes a meeting/convention/ball-room for proms, cotillions and class reunions. Holiday Inn and Best Western are represented in towns much smaller than 25-50K.
There would probably be a Motel 6 or competitor on the outskirts of town and probably a rustic 40s-50s era motor hotel -- with fanciful wigwam or "old west" architecture -- that is barely staying in business with help from the local historical society's efforts to declare it a "historic landmark." The motor hotel probably isn't one of the more outrageous examples of fanciful architecture the precursors of "Motels" are sometimes known for, but it won't be just a row of crackerbox cabins either.
I think as long as you don't plan on importing a thousand-room MGM Grand or other Vegas style resort you can just pick a national chain francise and plop it down in a likely location -- Holiday Inn, Best Western, Days Inn, Travelodge et al are all ubiquitous enough there's likely to be one or more of each around town.