Maine hotels and motels abound, but which one offers the best accommodations for your particular business trip? If you plan to be there a day or a weekend, the accommodations you need will be different than those needed for a longer stay. If you are entertaining your clients or meeting with them for business, this can also be a factor in where you stay, especially if you are providing the meeting room.

Choose the best facilities to make your business trip a success. You may need wireless Internet, unlimited free local calls, a business center to send faxes or meeting room capabilities. On longer stays, you may prefer a suite to just a room. Look for the following when you make a Maine hotel reservation:

1. Find a Maine motel that offers overnight accommodations.

2. Select inns in Maine for your long-term business needs.

3. Add Maine lodging near resorts for that working and getaway business trip.

Action Steps
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Look for a hotel in Maine offering overnight accommodations

If you are going to Maine for a one day business meeting, you just need a place to park yourself overnight. Then you can catch your flight home in the morning. As long as the room is clean, comfortable and offers basics such as Internet, it should do the job for you.

I recommend: America's Best Value Inn has convenient locations across Maine that offer cable TV in their affordable rooms. Travelodge offers free high-speed Internet access and free breakfast.

Pick extended stay motels in Maine for longer stays

When you will be staying for a week or longer, extended stay hotel motel in ME are your best bet for a successful business trip. These hotels offer more than one room suites; they provide full kitchens, business centers, high-speed wireless Internet and meeting centers.

I recommend: Extended Stay America offers full kitchens with all utensils provided. The rooms come with a workspace with computer data port and wireless high-speed Internet access for an additional fee. Comfort Suites by Choice offers free wireless high-speed Internet in all of the suites. This all suite hotel provides free breakfast daily.

Make your Maine hotels and motels reservations near the resorts for business and pleasure

Maine has a wealth of attractions including swimming, canoeing and sailing. Alternatively, visit some of the historic attractions when you travel in Maine. Hotel prices for resort packages vary with time of year and from resort to resort.

I recommend: Point Sebago Resort offers boat rentals for salmon fishing. Their restaurant is located right on the beach, and the nightly entertainment features a comedy club, western dinner shows and Monte Carlo. Linekin Bay Resort offers rooms or cottages. Take in sailing, swimming, rowing or canoeing, and do not forget to eat Maine seafood for dinner.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Book your hotel in Maine with a discount service like Hotels.com and save on your reservation. These sites offer discounts up to 50% off the regular room rates.