How to choose a hotel room abroad: tips on comfort and safety.
Going Abroad? Don’t Forget to Choose the Right Hotel Room
A business trip abroad! Who among us has never dreamed of this? While waiting for the next vacation, we glance at travel agency signs, tempting offers, and choose a tour and destination where we would like to go. Most often, we use the global electronic library – the Internet – for this purpose.
Scrolling through colorful web pages, reading about exciting vacations in Turkey, Egypt, hot Australia, frosty Finland, or European countries, we take into account what each of these destinations can offer and why we are attracted to them. But after choosing the tour, the country, and the dates, we move on to the most important part – selecting the hotel.
Four, three, or five stars? Many travelers ask themselves this question. Should you pay extra or not? What makes a three-star hotel room different from a four- or five-star one?
An avalanche of such questions floods our minds when it comes to choosing a beautiful, comfortable, affordable, and cozy hotel that offers everything necessary for a great holiday and hobbies.
Let’s think together about what an average foreign hotel offers its visitors. The difference in the number of stars is reflected in the level of service, the interior design of rooms, the quality of furniture, the range of additional services, and the location of the hotel itself.
If you imagine the furnishings of a typical room (bathroom and bedroom) in a hotel of any star category, you’ll quickly see that the furniture list is standard: sliding wardrobes, beds, chairs, tables, bedside tables. In luxury hotels, however, a standard room consisting of a living room, bedroom, and bathroom may also include sofas, lounges, a mini-kitchen, several bathrooms instead of one, hallways, and orthopedic mattresses on the beds.
The quality of the furniture and the style of the interior in a hotel room again depend on the number of stars. In a five-star hotel, you will be offered twin or single beds, as well as French beds, all equipped with orthopedic mattresses. Some beds may even have water mattresses with excellent orthopedic qualities.
In three- or four-star hotels, beds usually come with standard or budget mattresses with a slight orthopedic effect. Kitchens, hallways, and living rooms are usually offered only in luxury suites. Sofas, upholstered furniture, and sliding wardrobes are found either in suites or in rooms designed for larger groups of guests.
As for the interiors, in upscale hotels each room often has an individual design. Bedrooms and living rooms in such rooms are often handcrafted specifically for that room. High-quality materials are used for decoration: precious woods, fabrics, floral compositions, artworks, mini sculptures, vases, frescoes, and more. In lower-star hotels, the interiors of bedrooms, bathrooms, hallways, and living rooms are standardized and uniform, furnished with mass-produced furniture.
