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Hotel Types

Today it is appropriate to determine the hotel type not only regarding its class or star rating. Many of them have their own specific character. So far the resort hotels have been and remain a pillar of world tourism. However, every year they give up a growing part of the market to the hotels, intended for relatively narrow group of clients and offering extra exotic options.

The most common types of hotels today are resort hotels, B&B hotels, spa hotels, motels, hotel complexes, boutique hotels and hostels. Each of these categories has its own features and pricing policy. At the bottom of the price pyramid hostels are located, which offer their services to travelers with an austerity budget, students and young people. Minimum comfort offered by the hostels is often enough for the young pilgrims. Hostels are followed by motels, which offer more comfort, but anyways you shouldn’t expect anything special from them, because this type of hotels was designed as a <<one night hotel>> for motorists. The next type is B&B hotels, then resort hotels and hotel complexes and on the top of Olympus are boutique hotels with their exclusive features.

These hotels types where distinguished according to their comfort level. However there are hotels, which can not be classified using any of those categories. For example, In Italy the oldest type of hotels in the world – monastery hotels – is extremely popular among the visitors. Accommodation in them is organized by the monasteries, which offer cells on their territories for the tourists. Many believe that such a vacation is the best way to understand Italy.

Other counties have their own unique hotels, too. In Japan, where every meter of free space is of great importance, so called capsule hotels have become an ordinary thing. The room size in them is equal to the size of the bed. So you shouldn’t expect a separate bathroom if you decide to stay in such hotel. There is a moment in <<Matrix>> movie when the main character finds himself in a barostat. So, that barostat is far more spacious than Japanese capsule room.

In Russia there is also a system of boarding houses and preventoriums that cannot be included to a hotel category. In most of them there are still remnants of the Soviet service. However some boarding houses were bought and now are undergoing restoration. This can be said primarily about Mineral Waters region, Sochi, Kaliningrad and Moscow region.

In <<Hotel Types>> column we will provide you with detailed information about the most popular hotel types, with the reference information about the prices, and also familiarize you with various options of accommodation in the modern tourist industry.


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