London Hotels – The Greater London area has over 100,000 hotel rooms, and the city states that there’s over 70,000 hotels ranging from three to five stars within ten kilometers of Central London. They do not require to be rocket scientists to see that that is a whopping lot of hotels. With that lots of establishments spanning a history that goes way back, it is fascinating to note that these hotels have different styles that reflect their times.
Some reports indicate that, since the mid-1990s, there has been fast hotel expansion in the city. In recent years alone, there’s been over 1000 hotel rooms that opened in London. Still, modern hotels started popping up since the early 19th century. Before that, some smaller types of hotels were prevalent in the city to serve travelers. Read the rest of this entry »
At one time, staying in a “four-star hotel” meant you were experiencing the peak of luxury. Luxurious rooms, top-notch accommodations and plenty of amenities. But increasingly a four-star hotel is no longer enough, with uber-high-end properties in Europe racing to claim six or, in the case of the Burj-al-Arab in Dubai, even seven-star ratings. At what point do the hotel stars become meaningless? The BBC took a look at the hotel-star “ratings game” in a recent article, noting the jumble of competing systems and confusion it causes for consumers.