10. Different types of hotels

Hotels fall into many categories, ranging from boarding houses, guest houses, country inns, small hotels with between 25 to 50 bedrooms, medium-sized motels with up to 200 bedrooms, large hotels with several hundred bedrooms, and special transient hotels such as motels, motorway hotels, post-houses, airport hotels and hotels in large cities whose business consists mainly of guests in transit that stay for one or two nights only. The type of guest in the hotel gives it special characteristics and atmosphere: for example, some hotels are family type hotels, while others are commercial hotels usually catering for commercial travelers. There are the resort hotels, which are seasonal and cater for holidaymakers. Many organizations such as the AA (Automobile Associations) and RAC (Royal Automobile Club) and others make their own classification of hotels and restaurants. What the AA star classifications indicate:

One-star-hotels and inns generally of small scale with acceptable facilities and furnishings. All bedrooms with hot and cold water: adequate bath and lavatory arrangements, meals are provided for the residents but their availability to non-residents may be limited. Two-star hotels offer a higher standard of accommodation and some private bathrooms/showers. A wider choice of food is provided but the availability of meals to non-residents may be limited. Three-star-hotels are hotels with spacious accommodation with a large number of bedrooms with private bathrooms/showers. Fuller meal facilities are provided but luncheon and weekend service to nonresidents may be restricted. Four-star-hotels offer a high standard of comfort and service with the majority of bedrooms providing private bathrooms-showers. Five-star hotels are luxury hotels offering the highest international standard.

Different types of rooms.

Different types of hotels are to be founded in every part of Britain and the United States. The very best, of course, are the «hotels de luxe», which provide every modem comfort and convenience. The rooms in these hotels are comfortable, beautifully equipped and of very high standard. The room of five- and four-star hotels must offer ample accommodation fm resident and non-resident visitors. They must have all the attributes of a three-star hotel plus a day-and-night-service, an atmosphere of comfort above the ordinary, and excellent cuisine. If a person wants to stay in a three-star hotel he must know that the rooms have a high standard of cleanliness and good service there. As for the rooms in two-star hotels they offer limited, well-kept, clean accommodation, with a good standard of comfort. The rates sometimes are what the staff call “rack rates’’, that is the normal rates quoted to the public. The single rooms are very comfortable and the rates are very reasonable. The rack rate is a night. But a penthouse suite is an extremely luxurious and spacious rooms. The price may also include continental breakfast. It is coffee, tea rolls, jam and honey-nothing cooked. But many clients prefer a «full English breakfast». It includes hot food, fried egg, fried bacon and porridge.