A hotel is an institution that provides paid housing, usually on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number of additional guest services, such as a restaurant, swimming pool or childcare. Some hotels have conference services and meeting rooms, and also encourage groups to hold conferences and meetings at their locations. Hotels differ from motels in that most motels have access, external entrances to rooms, and hotels, as a rule, have internal entrances to rooms, which can increase the number of guests. security and present a more prestigious image. The main room of the room with a bed, a wardrobe, a table and a wash basin has been seriously replaced by rooms with bathrooms and climate control. Other features found may be a telephone, an alarm clock, a TV and broadband internet access. Food and drinks can be provided by the mini-bar (which often includes a small refrigerator), where there are snacks and drinks (payable on departure), as well as tea and coffee making facilities (cups, spoons, electric kettle and sachets containing instant coffee, tea bags, sugar, cream or milk).
In the United Kingdom, the hotel is legally obliged to serve food and drinks to everyone at certain times; To avoid this requirement, often come across "private hotels" that do not fall under this requirement. However, in Japan, the capsule hotel has minimal amenities and spacious rooms. The cost and quality of hotels usually indicate the range and type of services available. Due to the intensive growth of tourism throughout the world during the last decades of the 20th century, standards, especially those from smaller institutions, have improved. For greater comparability, rating systems were introduced with the most common classification from one to five stars.
“Boutique Hotel” is a term for a description of intimate, typically luxurious or quirky hotels in North America. Boutique hotels differ from each other in larger networks or branded hotels, providing an exceptional and individual level of accommodation, services and amenities. Boutique hotels are decorated in a themed, stylish and / or desirable style. Although this is usually noticeably less than in the main hotel (from 3 to 100 rooms), boutique hotels are usually equipped with telephone and Wi-Fi Internet connections, honest bars and often cable / pay TV. The hotel’s staff is available 24 hours a day. Many boutique hotels have dining rooms on site, as well as main bars and lounges, which can also be open to the general public. Of the entire travel market, a small percentage are discerning travelers, who attach great importance to privacy, luxury and the provision of services.
Since this market is usually a corporate traveler, the market segment is non-seasonal, highly profitable and repetitive, and therefore one of the operators of boutique hotels is targeted as the main source of income. A number of hotels entered the public mind through popular culture such as the Ritz Hotel in London, the United Kingdom (“Taking on the Ritz”) and Chelsea in New York, the theme of several songs and the scene of the songs marked by Nancy Spengen’s boyfriend Sid Wichester. Folklore hotels, like these two, are also frequented by celebrities, as is the case with Ritz and Chelsea. Other famous hotels include the Beverly Hills Hotel, Bel-Air Hotel and Chateau Marmont, California, USA, Washington DC Watergate Complex, Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia, George V Hotel and Hôtel Ritz in Paris, Palazzo Versace Hotel on the Gold Coast , Queensland, Australia, the Hermitage Hotel and the Hotel de Paris in Monaco (on the French Riviera) and the Leningradskaya Hotel in Moscow. Many hotels can be considered as destinations in their own right, due to the unusual characteristics of the accommodation and / or its immediate environment.
Hotels in Treehouse Some hotels, such as the Tree of the Costa Rica Village in the Gandoka-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica or the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya, are built from living trees and wooden houses. The towers of Ariau, near Manaus, Brazil, are located in the center of the Amazon, on the Rio Negro. Bill Gates even invested, and there was built a set with satellite Internet / telephone. Another great hotel in Cappadocia, Spain The hotel is located in Cappadocia, in the heart of the city. Turkey, are distinguished by the fact that they are embedded in natural cave formations, some with underground rooms.
Capsule Hotels Capsule hotels are a kind of budget hotels that are fairly common in Japan. Ice hotels, such as the Ice Hotel in Yukkasjärvi, Sweden, melt every spring and are rebuilt every winter from ice and snow. Snow Hotels The Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland is located within the walls of Kemi, the largest snow castle in the world. It includes the Mammut Snow Hotel, the Castle Yard, the Snow Restaurant and a chapel for weddings, etc. Its furnishings and decorations, such as sculptures, are made of snow and ice. In the Lainio Snow Hotel in Lapland (near Yllas), Finland, there is also accommodation with snow. Garden Hotels Garden hotels, known for their gardens before they became hotels, include the Gravetye Manor, the home of William Robinson and Cleveiden, designed by Charles Barry with the rose garden of Jeffrey Jellico.
Underwater Hotels As of 2005, the only hotel with an underwater room that can be reached without scuba diving is the Utter Inn in Lake Malaren, Sweden. However, he only has one room, and Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida, which requires scuba diving, not much more. Hydropolis is an ambitious project to create a luxury hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with 220 suites, located at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, 20 meters (66 feet) below the surface. Its architecture will have two domes that destroy the surface and the underwater tunnel, all of which are made of transparent materials such as glass and acrylic. Other unusual hotels in The Library Hotel in New York are unique in that its ten floors are located in accordance with the Dewey Decimal System. Rogers Center, formerly SkyDome, in Toronto, Canada, is the only stadium connected to a hotel with 70 rooms overlooking the field. Hotel Burj al-Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, built on an artificial island, is made in the shape of a sail boat.
