Even experienced tourists sometimes look at the advertising avenue, like a ram on a new gate. Why is the hotel 3 * the same price that 4 *? What does mysterious (T) HB + mean after the hotel name? And why a girlfriend in her French "three stars" champagne in the room gate, and you can't find even sneakers in your Vietnamese five to kill a cockroach? Patience, calm, came Pics.ru and explained everything.
What stars speak?
What, in fact, mean these mysterious asterisks over the door of the hotel? If you bring together all the Akyn songs of tour operators and owners of hotels with which they lure tourists to their networks, it will be approximately the following picture:
1 * - room with basic furniture itself. The most lucky amenities in the room, the rest - on the floor. Give soap and towel (which is changed only on request). There is a TV in the lobby, but in the room it is not necessary.
2 * - All the same, only the room has a toilet and shower, in the hotel - bar and elevator, and the towels change every 2 days.
3 * - There is exactly the toilet with the bathroom will be in the room. In addition to the closet and bed, the rooms put dressing tables and coasters for suitcases. The hotel should have an elevator, bar, business center, restaurant, pool, currency exchange and beauty salon. Towels change daily.
4 * - All of the above, plus a biase cleaning and daily replacement towels, hairdryer, air conditioning, safe, full basket of soil accessories and laundry.
5 * - Full Razdar - Beautiful rooms, Design Interior, 24-hour workshop in Livreye, Free parking, Swimming pool, Maid and Campering samples, Roof Golf Course and Scarlet Flower in Klyar for breakfast.
6 * - Uh, actually do not exist. Having sighted 6 stars, the owner promises 146% comfort. Very popular format among oil shearsh and some Russian oligarchs - such, normal boys in Adiki from Sevil-Row.
National features
It seems that everything is simple: one star - Gadyushnik, five - Millionaire paradise. But no, naive tourist. Keep in mind that no one says these stars in general, does not consider and does not control - there are simply no uniform standards, each country itself decides how many stars sculpt on the facade. Therefore, in Dubai five-star, you will allocate a personal maid for the ablution of the legs, and in the Turkish, you will flush half an hour at the reception towel.
In Egypt, Turkey and almost all countries of Southeast Asia, the hotel's stars can be boldly to take 1-2 stars to get an idea of its true level. First, the operators sometimes overestimate the hotel's circle - no one will scandalize if the arrival will find that the hotel is not four, but three stars. Secondly, the stars here are distributed as leaflets at the subway - take how much it is not a pity! Anyway, no one checks. Thirdly, the hotel's level is often determined simply in size and number of services. That is, 4 * size with a small village, with three restaurants and the hall for corporate orgies with a buffet can be much overtaken than 2 * for 10 rooms. The most reliable is to focus on the year of the hotel. The newer, the cleaner and more cozy.
In Europe, too, damn his feet will be broken. For example, the meticulous Germans (and after them - both Czechs) established a standard system of accrual of stars - honest, but severe in relation to the tourist, as even at 5 * at night there may not be a pool or regular nanny for babies. But in general, everything corresponds to the above Ranger.
In Italy, the hotelians themselves do not understand how points they are accrued, especially since its system has its own system. Do not understand this and officials from tourism. In Italy, in general, few people understand. Do not go, just remember: in Rome and around it 4 * may hardly reach 3 *, in Liguria, Calabria and Sardinia, small-scale hotels are very bad, and 4-5 * - unexpectedly good. In the rest of the regions, everything is more or less as necessary.
The French are honest, and even more so - often the difference between 4 * and 5 * can notice only an experienced hotel veteran. But the Spaniards often cast an excess star for comfort, but because the house is very beautiful. Or the area around the road.
The head has not crack yet? Let's drink citraamon, we have not finished yet. The system of stars did not fit everywhere. For example, in the US, hotels are divided into classes. Deluxe (d) corresponds to 4-5 *, First (F) - Balgical 4 * or very good 3 *, Moderate First (M) - honest 3 *, tourist (T) - 1-2 *. And in Greece, hotels are marked with letters - their de luxe is similar to the hotel 4 * -5 *, and the hotel is 3 * -4 *, in - the hotel 2 * -3 *, and c -1 * -2 *.
First, second and compote
Food in the hotel is also often indicated by some strange letters. Decrypt:
EP - no meals. Industion itself.
BB - Breakfast (usually - Spartan buffet).
HB - half board. That is a buffet breakfast with coffee tea and the same dinner, but without drinks. Buy drinking to your own.
HB + - Advanced half board. The same as half board, but at least in the evening you climb and juice and local vinica.
FB - full board, siren breakfast, lunch and dinner, and nap only in the evening.
FB + - Advanced full board, fed and shed three times a day.
All Inclusive (he al, he is al) - Gulia, Rvanina, all for free and all day.
UAL or UAI - as it were all inclusive, but steep - with imported alcohol, sweet tables, five-volume diet in different hotel restaurants to choose from.
HIGN Class All Inclusive - all for free. That is, in general, everything except the spa, international negotiations and rolled water bike. Here are straight take and eat.