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Motels Inns: Hotels are generally grouped in four main categories: commercial or transient hotels; resort hotels; residential hotels; and motels inns, or motor hotels. In the United States about 75% of the hotel rooms (excluding motels inns) are in commercial hotels, 16% in resort hotels (both summer and winter seasons), and the remaining 9% in residential hotels. About 80% of the American motel rooms are in commercial establishments and the remainder in resort motels inns.In addition to the above, mention should be made of Portugal's privately run estalagens (singular estalagem), which are character inns, and the chain of government-run pousadas, which are motorists' inns. A 4-year plan is under way to increase the number of these pousadas by adding 14 to the 8 or 10 already functioning. These inns are placed in lovely settings and all of them glow with charm. Usually only one (double) room in each pousada has a private bath, but with or without this convenience you will certainly love these places. Each is a "personage" in the hotel population of Portugal, but they are small, and you should book well in advance.
Hotels—to use the name generically—vary in size from the 6,000-guest Hotel Russia in Moscow, which in 1969 superseded the 2,500-room Conrad Hilton in Chicago as the largest hotel in the world, to 10- or 12-room inns. In addition, there are exotic varieties of hotels, such as tree-top hotels, from which guests can observe wild animals in their native habitat; "boatels," providing the same sort of facilities for boatmen as motels inns do for motorists; and ocean liners, tied up temporarily or permanently to provide extra hotel accommodations at resorts during the peak season, notably the former Cunard superliner Queen Mary, at Long Beach, Calif. |
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