Hotels, Motels, and Inns

[Fifty]

What are the differneecs between Hotels, Motels, and Inns? Which term do you generally use? What about Bed & Breakfasts, Lodges, Suites, Hostels, etc?

 

[Red Door]

Hotels are more expensive, and therefore, a lot better.

 

[North King]

Hotels are big, Motels are usually one floor or two, very small. Inns can refer to either one.

 

[JollyRoger]

I use a hotel when I can afford a $300 hooker and a motel when my budget calls for the $50 variety.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I get the impression of Bed and Breakfast as being generally run out of someone's home; they remind of a sort of rest stop from before we had cars.

Lodges are generally in parks or resorts, and include things like Tennis courts and maybe a golf course.

Hostels are for youth travelling abroad, and are very cheap, as I understand. I don't think we have them in America, I've only read about them in my German class, once upon a time.

 

[StarWorms]

A hotel is a large place which you can buy for a short period. Usually a basic room.

A motel is an American thing and like a small cheap hotel.

An Inn is similar to a hotel but less like a company's building and more like a pub, if that makes sense. It's like a hotel owned by a couple rather than by an organisation.

B&Bs tend to be a house with quite a few bedrooms owned by someone. Similar to an Inn in that sense.

Hostels are very cheap places for students who can't afford much but need somewhere to stay. So probably more like a couple of bunk beds.

 

[cegman]

Motels are something like Motorvehicle hotel it has something to do with being on highways and their introduction. Cheap places to stay on a road trip.

 

[Maniacal]

Now, there will always be exceptinos to the rule but generaly;

Motels - Max 2 stories, max 2 buildings with rooms, office often attached, cheap to middle/notquitehigh prices. Amenities; TV, washroom, some rooms might have a kitchenette, some motels have pools. A few have a restaurent. Short stays while travelling usualy.

Hotels - medium to high prices, mininum two stories, max unknown, usualy one tall building (or long) occaisonaly two, TV, wahsroom, some mgiht have kitchenettes, some have pools, possible laundry mat, many have a restaurent. Short to long stays while travelling or attending something in another place.

Bed & Breakfasts - Usualy one a few rooms, have breakfast, in someone's home. Family run. Stay in while visitng area.

 

[Godwynn]

I use a hotel when I can afford a $300 hooker and a motel when my budget calls for the $50 variety.

Quoted for the absolute truth.

 

[bd41094]

What are the differneecs between Hotels, Motels, and Inns? Which term do you generally use? What about Bed & Breakfasts, Lodges, Suites, Hostels, etc?

Well lets see here...
Motels: one night places
Hotels: more than one night places
Inns: pretty much the same thing as a hotel
Lodges: Sounds like a skiing thing up in the mountains
Suites: a really nice hotels
Hostels: ??
Bed & Breakfast: simple, you stay there and get breakfast

 

[bhsup]

Motels are hotels on travel routes. Motor Hotels, as cegman already pointed out. The term sprung into use in the late 40s or early 50s as people began crossing the nation in large numbers on holidays and vacations. To qualify as an inn (regardless of stupidly named chains like Red Roof Inn), should an establishment have to offer food and drink in addition to lodging?

 

[Perfection]

I wonder if ease of getting in without a reservation plays a signficant factor here?

 

[Abaddon]

Also what fee you pay varies massivly.

 

[Perfection]

I wonder if such terminology exists outside the united states?

 

[Sophie 378]

Hostels: ??

Hostel is the cheapest sort of place, where you get a bunk bed in a barracks-type room rather than a room to yourself. Shared bathrooms and usually one big kitchen, no food or anything supplied. Mostly used by students and backpackers, I think.

 

[Xanikk999]

Hotels are luxurious, motels are smaller and more common, inns are cheap crapholes.

 

[bd41094]

Hostel is the cheapest sort of place, where you get a bunk bed in a barracks-type room rather than a room to yourself. Shared bathrooms and usually one big kitchen, no food or anything supplied. Mostly used by students and backpackers, I think.

Oh.... that sucks

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Motels will leave the light on for you.

 

[WillJ]

This might not be the actual definition, but I've found it's almost always true: With a motel, you can park your car right by your room and then enter from the outdoors. With a hotel, you park your car in a big parking lot, walk into a lobby, then you walk up or take an elevator up a floor or two (or three, or a hundred), then walk into a hallway, and then finally you walk into your room. "Inn" is a stupid name with an unnecessary double consonant, and it should never be used.

 

[JonnyB]

I wonder if such terminology exists outside the united states?

It does in at least one other country.