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| ***** | FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. | A hotel offering top quality services and, usually, a prime location and extensive amenities.
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| *** | POD HOTEL. | A budget hotel featuring small rooms of ultra compact design said to have been inspired by the pods in first class sections of airlines. Pod hotels are located most frequently at airports and in high
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| ** | BOUTIQUE HOTEL. | A small property, typically offering an enhanced level of service and marketed to the affluent. boutique operation. Any business venture that seeks to provide an enhanced level of service, at a premiu
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| ** | ECONOMY HOTEL. | A hotel offering few amenities.
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| * | FULL SERVICE HOTEL. | A hotel with a restaurant.
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| * | LIFESTYLE HOTEL. | A boutique hotel. Often used to refer specifically to a branded boutique hotel.
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| * | GREEN HOTEL. | A lodging establishment that has made a commitment to various ecologically sound practices such as saving water, saving energy, and reducing solid waste.
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| * | CONDOMINIUM HOTEL. | A hotel that sells individual rooms to residents or investors. Typically, when the owner is not present, the room can be rented to paying guests, with the income produced from such rentals helping to
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| * | LIMITED SERVICE HOTEL. | A hotel without a restaurant.
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| * | CAPSULE HOTEL. | A Japanese lodging featuring small, coffin-like sleeping compartments. Often found near railway stations and usually accepting men only. Pronounced 'capseru hoteru' in Japanese.
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| * | HOTEL. | Any establishment offering overnight accommodations.
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