Motel One

It was founded in 2000 by the former Accor manager Dieter Müller in Munich and is now run by him and his wife, Ursula Schelle-Müller. In the same year, the first Motel One opened in Offenbach am Main. Hotels in Schweinfurt, Lohfelden, Ratingen and Kleinmachnow followed – in places that are mostly close to big cities but outside the inner city. In 2004 the motel-one management changed its strategy, concentrating on opening new motels in central locations in the big cities. In the year 2015, nine small hotels were sold, for the start-up phase, to the real estate investor FDM Management, which operates them as Première-Classe-Hotels.

Motel One

As of 2024, Motel One operates the majority of its hotels in 25 German cities, several of which feature more than one property with 10 Motel Ones in Berlin alone. Additional hotels are located in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The Cloud One

Currently five locations are marketed using the company's upscale brand The Cloud One introduced in 2023. These are located in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Prague and New York City. Some of these are repurposed and remodelled former Motel One locations.