[QUOTE=HolyMole;123005
Using a ballpark 400 - 500 peso rate for many smaller places in or near El Centro, how do the rates at Hoteles de Paso compare?.....for a full night's sleep, that is.[/QUOTE]

We paid $225 just outside of Mazatlan, no limit to the stay mentioned nor enforced. Drive into the garage and close it. No lock on the interior door needed. Paid for the room through the lazy Susan to the outside. Ordered a Club Sandwich to share, cheap. Could have (should have) paid $50 pesos more for a room with jacuzzi. The place was very clean and the lighting was the best I've seen in a hotel/motel/no-tell in Mexico or almost anywhere else. There was hard-core porn on the TV, of which my wife did not approve. No TV allowed for me. We both look forward to our next stay en un hotel de paso (thanks for the term in Spanish). If you arrive somewhat late and leave somewhat early, nothing could be more safe, convenient nor cheap.

BTW, a Mexican friend told me that the TV fare is to attract single male customers who stay, presumably, for 7 minutes or so alone then leave.