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Subject: What's the difference? I am very curious to find out if there is any actual difference between "hotel", "guest house", "inn", and "resort"?Also, is there any difference between "luxury hotel" and "5-star hotel"? Thanks in advance. Rachel |
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link 20.05.2003 7:20 |
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I can only speak for Britain: inn is an archaic word now, not used in general conversation. nowadays apart from in the names of modest/cheap pubs with accommodation. (e.g The New Inn, The Inn on the Green). Hence the builders of new nasty commercial pubs have taken to using the word in the titles. I would speculate that the biblical connotations of the word "inn" contribute to its archaic feel (Jesus was born in an inn). In Worcestershire alone I know of half a dozen pubs called "The New Inn" - and they are all old. an inn is always an extension of a pub, or rather, a pub with accommodation available for travellers. No-one nowadays would say 'I'm going to find an inn to stay at' - They would refer to : hotel, a bed-and-breakfast, lodgings, (overnight) accommodation, somewhere to stay. A guest house is a cheap, often pretentious, hotel, redolent of the seaside,with some measure of rules or restrictions. It is usually run by one person, the landlady, or family, who also cook the meals. A bed-and-breakfast is what the name implies: a room overnight followed by a breakfast - then you leave. You would expect a traditional English breakfast ("fry-up"): fried egg and bacon, sausages, mushrooms, fried tomatoes, black pudding, fried bread, baked beans etc. A resort suggests a place where people go (at least originally) for their health: the seaside, or a spa town. resort sounds posh. hotel means, well - hotel. professionally run, many rooms, large, various facilities inside, an inbuilt restaurant, usually expensive. To me 5-star and luxury mean the same thing. Incidentally, it seems that the word 'inn' obeys a general orthographic rule of English, postulated by some linguists: the lexicon consists of two kinds of words - grammatical v lexical. Lexical words are the ones that somehow have more substance, meaningfulness (nouns, adjectives, verbs) while at the other end of the scale you have the grammatical words (articles, prepositions, particles). The underlying rule seems to be that whereas grammatical words can have as few or as many letters as necessary, grammatical words, somehow feel as though they ought to have at least 3 letters. so: inn, egg could theoretically be spelt "in, eg" but it somehow wouldn't feel right to an English speaker/reader. |
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link 20.05.2003 22:08 |
| Самое простое - resort. Это курорт. |
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