Hotel features:

• 24-hour Health club, pool & rooftop tennis courts.

• Executive Rooms and Executive Lounge.

• High-speed internet access.

The Great Southern Hotel is located in the centre of Australia. It provides quiet, value-for-money accommodation. The Great Southern Hotel is easily accessible and there is a bus station that links to the airport in front of the hotel. There are modern, comfortably furnished guest rooms that include en suite shower room. Rich breakfast is served daily with great-value meals for lunch and dinner as well as a lobby bar.

3. Activity

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Accomodation	Size	Room types	Price	Facilities	Other information

The Ahwahnee Hotel is luxurious and very centrally located, the Ahwahnee is the park’s premiere hostelry. A short, signposted walk from Yosemite Village, this lovely hotel was built in 1927 from local rock. Rooms are both comfortable and elegant, with full baths, and sturdy, rustic wooden furniture. Suites include an additional sitting-room. The hotel’s celebrated dining and entertainment facilities include the Indian Bar Room for drinks and a splendid Dining Room, where dinner reservations are required year round.

The Yosemite Lodge is within easy walking distance of most of the valley’s attractions. It offers attractive but simple hotel rooms and small redwood cabins. Because it’s priced so well. This place is popular, and reservations should be made as far in advance as possible. Facilities include a coffee shop, lounge, two restaurants, a cafeteria, as well as several shops.

The Wawona Hotel: You won’t be roughing it at the Wawona, near the southern end of Yosemite. This is the oldest hotel in continuous service in the national park system, dating from 1879. The pretty wooden structures offer comfortable, if sparsely furnished, rooms. Facilities include a swimming-pool, a tennis court, and a nine-hole golf-course, as well as nearby stables.

4. Speaking

Hotels, guest houses, villas, campsites are all standard types all accommodation. But what about unusual?

1. Look at the hotel descriptions. Which hotel is the most unusual?

2. Which hotel would you like to stay in? Why?

Work with a partner. Think about your local area. Discuss buildings or natural structures (e.g. caves) that you could convert into ‘unusual’ accommodation.

If you can, go to the websites for the hotels and find out more about ‘unusual’ accommodation.

Mammut Snow Hotel

Mammut Snow Hotel with its surroundings is a unique place. It is an excellent way to experience the coldness of an arctic night. The temperature in the hotel rooms is approximately -5, but guests will have a good night’s sleep in a warm Ajungilak sleeping bag. In Mammut Snow Hotel there are 30 double rooms, 2 group rooms for five persons, and a suite.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Gamirasu is the name of an exquisitely restored 18-room cave house, in Ayvali Village near Urgup in the heart of Cappadocia, turkey. In former times housing the cells of a prison, this ancient monastery is steeped in history. A luxurious cave accommodation in a traditional Cappadocian village.

3. Present your unusual hotel to the rest of the class.