Hotel Facts for Kids

The Radisson Blu Hotel in Szczecin, Poland

The Llao llao Hotel in Argentina

A hotel or a guest-house is a large building with many rooms, where people can sleep when they are not at home. A motel is a hotel especially for motorists - people who drive cars - where the room door usually opens into the parking lot. Inn is sometimes used to mean a smaller hotel.

These places will rent a room for any number of days. They offer rooms to sleep, and you have to pay money for the service. There are also hotels where conferences are held.

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The Peninsula New York hotel located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan
A typical hotel room with a bed, desk, and television
This hotel room in Scandic Hotel Malmen in Stockholm, Sweden is located two floors underground.
The Tabard Inn, Southwark, London
Tremont House in Boston, United States, a luxury hotel, the first to provide indoor plumbing
The Boody House Hotel in Toledo, Ohio
Four Seasons Hotel Moscow, Russia
Rosewood London, England
Shangri-La's Fijian Resort in Yanuca Island, Fiji
Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Raffles Praslin, Seychelles
Hotel Astoria and statue of Tsar Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Grand Hotel Viljandi at winter in Viljandi, Estonia
Hôtel Ritz Paris in France
Shanghai Disneyland Hotel, China
On top of the cliff, the Riosol Hotel in Mogán
Interior of a capsule hotel in Osaka, Japan
Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Ithaa, the first undersea restaurant at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island resort
An overwater bungalow on the island resort in the Maldives
Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island from Jumeirah Beach and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge
Railroad Park Resort, a Caboose Hotel in Northern California
The Waldorf Astoria New York, the most expensive hotel ever sold, cost US$1.95 billion in 2014

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