6. Hotels: types and classifications

Travellers usually stay in hotels, inns or campsites. Businessmen who come to a city for a short stay try to find accommodation in the centre of the city. Hikers and motorists stay in campsites. Holidaymakers who travel with their children look for accommodation in old country inns or guesthouses.

There are the following hotel types according to the international standards:

1) Motor Hotel is a hotel with parking facilities and other services for motorists. Normally with a first-class restaurant.

2) Motel has parking and other services for motorists. As a rule it is situated on a motorway. There is a restaurant or cooking facilities on its territory.

3) Commercial Hotel is usually situated in the town centre. Clientele mainly consists of travelling businessmen who stay for a couple of nights only.

4) Resort Hotel is situated at a tourist resort by the sea or in the mountains. Clientele mainly consists of people on holiday that stay for a longer period than a couple of nights only.

5) Airport Hotel is situated near an airport. Clientele mainly consists of airline stuff and people travelling by air who only stay for one night.

6) Congress Hotel has all necessary meeting and exhibition facilities, audio-visual equipment and banquet rooms.

7) Summer Hotel can be in operation only during the summer months. It is often used as a student dormitory in winter time.

8) Holiday Village consists of a number of small individual cottages or bungalows normally with cooking facilities.

9) Hostel is a kind of a modest, moderately priced hotel, as a rule it has sleeping and breakfast facilities only.

There are also other types of moderately priced accommodation: an inn, a motor lodge, and a youth hostel.

All the countries of tourist attraction have a large network of hotels.

According to the level of comfort the hotels are classified as one, two, three, four or five star hotels. Nowadays there are some six star hotels abroad. The class of a hotel depends on its size, comfort, furniture and location in the city. Top class hotels offer tourists good food and good service.

Hotel facilities include: accommodation, dining, entertaining and sporting facilities.

7. Hotel rooms. Room services

Room service is a catering service in which food and drink brought to a guest’s room in a hotel.

There are the following dining facilities at the hotel: restaurants, cafes, snack bars and a currency night bar. You can also order meals in the room for an extra charge. The extra charge is 15%. At the restaurant, the visitor can have good time and taste national dishes. All these services are additional. You should pay for them extra

Most hotels have got some kind of food and beverage department. It includes a kitchen, a pantry, dining halls, bars and cocktail lounges. If the hotel kitchen has gained a reputation, it may increase the hotels business. The food and beverage department is in charge of room service too. When the hotel guests want to have their food and beverage in their rooms, the hotel provides this service. If guests need room service they should address a reception desk.

Types of Rooms

A top category has a whole choice of rooms. You can stay either in the top-category or the first-class room. It all depends on your choice, because the rooms are expensive. If you are not short of money you can afford yourself a suite-apartment, a suite, a junior suite or duplex. In any of these rooms you can find all facilities and conveniences.

Guests staying in a suite or a suite apartment can have a guide and a car for the whole day.

In case you are short of money you can stay in single rooms, double rooms, twin rooms or studio rooms. Here you can also feel yourself at home. Hotel staff does its best to make your stay pleasant and comfortable.

There are the following main room types in a hotel: single room is a room occupied by one person. Double room has large bed for two people. Twin room is a room with single beds for two people. Studio room has both one bed and a sofa. Customs can always get the required information in Accommodation Bureau at railway stations, airports or at hotels.