Boston Hotels Swampscott Massachusetts
HOTELS IN BOSTON & Swampscott, MASSACHUSETTS
The word “hotel” is drawn from the French word “hôte” which means “guest.” A hotel is a place of lodging that most frequently although not always charges its patrons or guests per night of stay and most of these stays are on a short-term basis. Besides lodging, hotels often provide their guests with additional services such as restaurants, bars, dance halls, swimming pools, spas, personal care salons, workout rooms, boutiques and gifts shops, childcare, laundry, travel agencies, concierge services, butler and maid services, conference and meeting rooms, and much more. Whether taken advantage of by its guests or not, the more amenities a hotel provides the higher its lodging rates are. Likewise, a hotel will increase its “star” count when it increases the amenities it provides its guests. Hotels, by the way, are rated with a one to five stars classification — five stars are awarded to premium and higher luxury hotels while a single star is assigned to the most basic hotel that provides little to no extra services.
Originally, a hotel provided basic accommodations of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand. (Believe it or not, some lower end hotels today still offer their guests just the bare minimum while the bathrooms may be located down the hall or on a different floor and are communal.) Most hotel rooms nowadays provide attached private bathrooms stocked with soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lotions, hairdryers and towels; telephones; alarm clocks; radios; televisions; Internet connectivity; pre-stocked mini-bars; coffee and tea stations that include cups, spoons, electric kettles, coffee, tea bags, sugar and creamer.
I will not take up too much of your valuable time by going into too much details about the various types of unusual hotels around the world but I do believe that mentioning them briefly is worthwhile. After all, these are destinations in their own right:
> Boutique Hotels. These are intimate, quirky, luxurious and theme-oriented hotels.
> Tree-House Hotels. These hotels are built with living trees as their main structural elements and they are found in and around jungles and rainforests.
> Cave Hotels. These are built in natural cave formations with lodging rooms underground.
> Capsule Hotels. These hotels’ primary goal is economy. They therefore feature extremely small sleeping quarters that are mere modular plastic or fiberglass blocks.
> Ice and Snow Hotels. These are full service hotels that melt every spring and must be rebuilt every winter.
> Garden Hotels. These are mansions steeped in famous garden settings that were converted to hotels.
> Underwater Hotels. There are currently only two hotels that feature rooms underwater; one requires scuba diving to enter while the other does not.
Now that we have discussed and reviewed some interesting facts about hotels, let us talk about hotels in Boston, Massachusetts which is why we have gathered here in the first place. As you might expect, Boston, Massachusetts has very hotels that will be more than happy to invite you to stay with them a night or two or three and will be equally happy to service and accommodate you. These Boston hotels range from the luxurious five-star hotels, to the mid-range chains and on down the line to the budget hotels. I will not provide you with an actual list of all the hotels in Boston, Massachusetts but I will point you to several websites that will not only list the hotels with comprehensive details about each one, they will also provide you with ratings and reviews, price comparisons and booking options. The websites that will best serve you and your needs are:
- http://hotel-guides.us/massachusetts/boston-ma-hotels.html
- http://www.travelpost.com/hotels/Boston/3626979
- http://www.hotels-rates.com/Boston/MA/usa/#trafficLogID=509591156&visited=true
- http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-191501945-boston_hotels-i
- http://boston.hotelscheap.org/
Enjoy your stay in Boston, Massachusetts.
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