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.

[4] At the beginning of 2016, Motel One had 53 hotels with over 14,000 rooms, most of them in Germany, six in Salzburg and Vienna in Austria, six in the United Kingdom (3 in Scotland and one in London), and one in Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.

[8] The operator of Motel One is One Hotels & Resorts AG, of whose majority shareholder Müller holds 57 percent.

The Motel One in Immermannstraße near Düsseldorf's main railway station has been open since June 2013; The theme "Japan" is reflected again in the lobby.

Additional hotels are located in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom.