Let them stay at a Motel 6 and take them to the local walmart if they want to see the regular folks. A bed and breakfast is generally not a microcosm of the locals.
I would fail the course before I stayed in a motel 6.
Exactly wrong.
Motel 6 is a corporate thing that views the local folks in terms of charts and graphs at some HQ far removed. Same for Walmart.
A bed and breakfast, in contrast, is a small business actually run by locals. HQ is the breakfast table! If you truly want to understand what's going on in that neck of the woods, the bed and breakfast proprietors are an ideal starting point.