Wanderlust World Wanderlust World As travel is becoming more personalized and thematic, hotels are no longer just places to rest in between adventures. Some new hotels focus on in becoming a part of, if not all of, a destination vacation. Global hotels range in size, shape and atmosphere. Know what kind of hotels are available, when planning your next hotel stay.
Boutique hotels are hotels that seek to differentiate themselves from traditional hotels with their luxurious accommodations, intimate atmospheres and guest orientation. Boutique hotels are often lavishly decorated and provide guests with smaller, more personalized amenities, such as honesty bars and a concierge.
The bed and breakfast is a traditional guest house style hotel, where guests are treated as a family rather than customers. Room almost always comes with a complimentary breakfast, are smaller and closer together. Most often with bed and breakfasts, a large house or even mansion has been divided, so rooms have less privacy and sometimes share a bathroom.
Hostels are hotels for low-income travelers. Students and long-term travelers often stay in hostels, where beds are shared and prices are cheap. Hostels can have as little as two people to a room and as many as six or eight. Often, hostels have game rooms or kitchens where guests congregate. Bathrooms are usually shared between many guest rooms, meaning some hostels have twenty people competing for a bathroom.
Themed hotels are located all over the world. These themed hotels are becoming more popular as people are seeing the hotel itself as a destination. In New York City, the Library Hotel offers ten floors of rooms that are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System. The RMS Queen Mary in California is a hotel that has been built out of the rooms of a 1930s ocean liner.