Rapaire may have a better handle on rates in the West and Mid-west, but here in the southeast and mid-Atlantic region, motel rates for places that are "safe" are probably going to be more like $80-$90 per night. There are lower cost chains, but without local knowledge of a particular motel in one of those chains, it is impossible to know if they are safe, clean, travel stops, or places often used for meth labs and drug deals, where muggings and robberies are fairly frequent. (That may not hold true for more sparsely populated areas in the mid-West.)