You must go to the really really cheap places. Every motel I've been in for many years has had at least a cheap clock radio. Even the Motel 6 at San Simeon .
And I have learned to check them very carefully, getting blasted out of a nice dream at 3:30 by crummy loud musice is not fun.
HoJos used to be known for their 28 flavors, frankforts, all you could eat Friday Night Clam and Fish Fry's and Orange roofs. Boy does that tell yah how old I am.
The above does remind me of a party where one of the drunks was telling a joke with a punchline of "They go to the Canary Islands. " and he was getting mad that people were laughing at him and not the joke or apparently didn't get it. So he kept telling it and waiting for the desired reaction. The correct punchline was "They go to the Virgin Islands." Never did figure out what was going wrong and his wife was so mad at him she wouldn't tell him what was wrong.