I hate Nader as much as the next person, but I agree that Chantal has to be `10000 times harder to be around in every conceivable way. Fat, dirty, smelly, disgusting, annoying, the list goes on. And when she's not with him, she's constantly harassing him with messages and phone calls and spilling her guts about him online. There are almost times I feel bad for him, but then I remember that he's a grifting POS, and this is the bed he made for himself.
As far as staying at a fleabag motel, Chantal lives in filth so I'm sure it doesn't bother her. AND! it's her attempt at "budgeting," which is a laugh and a half, because she is already squandering a lot of money on that trip. That Egyptian food alone was a waste. Most of it got thrown away (at Nader's insistence. Chins would have been perfectly happy to leave it out and eat it the next day, nach).