The Travel Channel reality show “Hotel Impossible” aired a Route 66-related episode on Tuesday night, showing how host Anthony Melchiorri tries to dress up the Luxury Inn in Flagstaff, Arizona, and the Red Garter Inn and Canyon Motel and RV Park in Williams, Arizona.
As you’ll find, the Red Garter and the Canyon didn’t need a lot of help. More heavy lifting was needed for the Luxury Inn, including a name change.
Melchiorri’s insistence that Route 66 motels show an individualistic slant and embrace gimmicks show good instincts about the Mother Road.
It also was nice the show squeezed in side trips to Oatman, Arizona, the Snow-Cap Drive-In in Seligman, Arizona, and Grand Canyon Caverns in Peach Springs, Arizona.