Good point, and price is indeed the reason we originally picked the F1 in Campbelltown.

Still, though, why can I get a comfortably-sized Motel 6 room for as low as $29.99 but it's impossible to find an F1 room for less than about the equivalent of $50? I don't even know that a larger room would require any price difference to cover the costs--especially if it results in higher occupancy as people who would never "stoop" to that kind of a place would be a bit more willing to try it (the F1 we were in for 6 nights was NOT full during the time we were there).

Although it looks like in Europe there are a number of Ibises which sort of fill that "willing to pay $5 more for a larger room" market segment, so the answer is to skip the F1 and go for an Ibis. In Australia, there wasn't really anything to fill the gap between the AU$69 F1 and the AU$110 nice mom-n-pop motels, so that was my main point of frustration there. Looks like that's less of an issue in France with the large number of Ibises (they're all over!).