Hotels
often provide a number of additional guest services
such as a restaurant, a swimming pool or childcare.
Some hotels have conference services and encourage
groups to hold conventions and meetings at their location.
Hotels differ from motels in that most motels have
drive-up, exterior entrances to the rooms, while hotels
tend to have interior entrances to the rooms, which
has been asserted by some hotels as enhancing guests'
safety and presenting a more upscale image. People
who travel and stay away from home for more than a
day need lodging mainly for sleeping. Other purposes
are safety, shelter from cold and rain, having a place
to store luggage and being able to take a shower.
They do that in a hotel, hostel or hostal, a private
home (commercially, i.e. a bed and breakfast or guest
house place, or non-commercially, with members of
hospitality services or in the home of friends), in
a tent, caravan/camper (often on a campsite). In addition
there are make-shift solutions. |
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