Texas 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 book hotels in Texas:

1. Look for motels in TX for your quick business stays.

2. Pick Texas motel discounts for your long-term business needs.

3. Find Texas hotels and motels near resorts, and mix business with pleasure.

Action Steps
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Look for cheap hotels in Texas for short term stays

If you are going to Texas for a one day business meeting, you just need a place to park yourself overnight, and then 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: Red Roof Inn offers reasonable rates and most locations offer wireless Internet. Usually if the location is near the airport, free airport shuttle is also included in the price. Sleep Inn by Choice offers wireless high-speed Internet and continental breakfast at most of its Texas locations.

Pick extended stay motels in Texas for longer stays

When you will be staying for a week or longer, your best bet for a successful business trip is extended stay motels. TX long-term hotels offer more than one room suites; they provide full kitchens, business centers, high-speed wireless Internet and meeting centers.

I recommend: Hyatt Place offers suites with separate bedroom and living quarters. They also give complimentary wireless Internet through out the premises so you can get your work done in your room, in the lobby or in the restaurant. Hawthorn Suites offers affordable extended stay lodging with full kitchens and a free hot breakfast buffet.

Make your Texas hotel reservation near a resort for business and pleasure

Texas offers some traditional areas of interest such as the Alamo, but it also has new attractions such as Space Center Houston. Visit for work, and play on the beaches of the gulf coast. Be sure to try some of the authentic 'Tex-Mex' food offered in some Dallas, Texas hotels.

I recommend: Lake Austin Spa Resort is perfect for relaxing after a hard days work. Soak in tub, and then relax in an overstuffed chair and watch over 100 TV channels including the movie channels. Relax in meditation sessions or hit the water with a paddleboat. Enjoy this resort your way. Horseshoe Bay Resort offers one, two or three bedroom suites with full appliances and furnishings. Play golf or tennis, or relax on the beach--the choice is yours.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Make your Texas motels Internet reservations online or by calling directly to the motels. Texas has many travel agents to work with so have a travel agent book your room when you need a great deal on a last minute reservation.