Need A Room? Find It Here Essay, Research Paper
Need a room? Find it here The Good Hotel Guide 2002: Continental Europe The twenty-fifth edition of this well-respected guide book has more than 200 new entries, ranging from cosy B&Bs in the Alps to luxurious paradores in Spain. The guide prides itself on championing small, owner-managed hotels with character and among the properties making their debut this year are some genuinely quirky finds. At the nineteenth-century Gammeldagshuset in Trondheim, Norway, for instance, the owner treats guests to a ‘living history’ experience, with storytelling by candlelight, cooking on an open fire and demonstrations of traditional crafts. What sets this apart from other guides is that reviews are based on reader recommendations and anonymous inspections, and no hospitality or advertising is accepted. Reviews are sprinkled with comments from readers which give the entries a pleasing ‘word of mouth’ feel. A satisfied former guest at the Hotel Alpenrose in Austria tells us: ‘Frau Gutwinski even offered to make us a picnic,’ which tells you more about that establishment than any dry list of facilities. Chapters on each country are prefaced with useful tips on what to expect from different types of accommodation, advice on tipping, grading systems, and even what breakfast to expect. We all dream of finding that perfect guest house or hotel that will make a holiday really memorable. This book will help you find it. Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay: French Holiday Homes There are some stunning properties featured in this brand new guide to France’s ‘heavenly hideaways’. The collaborators on this book have stayed in all 200 of the holiday homes featured, so can describe them and their owners in intimate detail. The reasonably priced homes include a converted pigeon loft, medieval watchtower, farm cottages, flats and a railway station. They range from the gigantic to the cosy, the centre of Paris to the edge of the Pyrenees. However, each has a special quality, be it gold taps, a four-poster bath, or donkeys and hens in the yard. The geographical spread reflects British prejudices; almost half of the properties are in the south-west. This book is happy to be both subjective and whimsical, a quality that will appeal or alienate accordingly (this reader was flummoxed on finding some made-up entries).