Some Interesting Facts about Hotels and Accommodation in Europe

If you are first time visitors to Europe, you will certainly have some questions to ask about the hotels and accommodations there. It would therefore be good to learn a bit about them first hand.

Hotels and accommodations in Europe vary in their sizes, functions and above all; prices. However, in view of the stiff competition in the hospitality industry all over Europe, they have set up some industry standards that are uniform throughout the continent.

Basic categories of hotel accommodations in Europe are -
• Upscale luxury hotels that are luxurious as well as expensive. Some of the examples are Ritz-Carlton, Dorchester, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Conrad Hotel, and Inter Continental Hotels. Most of them have hotel chains across Europe.
• Full service hotels like Hyatt, Hilton, Hotel Indigo, and Marriott.
• Visitor can prefer select service hotels like Holiday Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, or the Courtyard by Marriot.
• Limited service hotels include Hampton Inn, Fair Field Inn, La Quinta Inns, Days Inn, and Holiday Inn Express etc.
• Extended Stay hotels include Staybridge Suites, Homewood suites of Hilton and Residence Inn by Marriot etc.

Apart from these there are timeshare hotels and accommodation like Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Westgate resorts, Disney vacation club etc. There are some destination joints, bed and breakfast joints, and budget hotels of different types as well.

But the one that attracts the visitors and tourists most are the historic hotels in different parts of Europe. For instance; the Hotel Astoria at Saint Ptersburg in Russia has the statue of Tsar Nicholas I in front of it. Or there is the Schloss Ceclienhof in Potsdam in Germany that was the venue of the Potsdam conference during the World War II.

Last but not least are the beverage hotels like the Hotel De Paris in Paris in France that is the birth place of crepe Suzette.

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