Not even the captain alone...
35 seconds on Booking dot com.. similar deals on other sites, tripadvisor etc and I can find 193 properties within ten kms of the airport in Malaga, beds in hostels starting from 12 euros, hotel rooms starting from 35 euros. If you know you need to overnight, grow up, find it yourself and get back to the airport in time for your flight home. Then invoice.
This is the point where self respect ought kick in.
Recently in Sydney, a rather large thunderstorm stranded many thousands of passengers.
The crews including pilots, totaling some 60 odd staff were told the same crap regarding hotel 'availability'
Of course it is true that there were no hotels that night at $35 per night, there were hotels.
Any pilot, particularly a Captain, knows he or she would find it incredibly difficult to defend him or herself the next day were an incident to occur. Sleeping in a terminal is not "accommodation of a suitable standard". Yet sleep in the terminal they did and operate the next day.
1. Turn on ipad
2. Book room
3. Proceed to hotel and sleep.
4. Turn phone on the next day when sufficient rest obtained.
5. Send invoice to company.
6. Passenger home.
They did get a nice group email thanking them for their service from their 'manager' who reports suggest enjoyed the storm from the comfort of her own bed.