Many language learners and people who intend to work in the hotel industry often ask these important questions: what are the words associated with hotels? What are some hospitality words? How would you describe the hotel industry? What word is related to hotel and hotel terminology? What is the industry of hotels called? What are other names for hotel? and what are the 10 ways of classifying hotels?
As a whole, learning and understanding expressions and words associated with hotels are of primary importance to language learners who intend to work in the hotel and catering industry.
This post aims to provide useful and basic words and expressions used in the hotel industry. The main hotel words are defined in simple English that will help learners understand their meanings thoroughly.
13 Popular Types of Hotels: Hotels Names In English
In general, hotels can be classified depending upon their location, size, target market, price, and ownership. Here is a list of the main types of hotels:
- Airport Hotel: The hotel is located near the airport for guests wishing to relax while waiting for the flight, which will include both overnight stays and hourly stays. Most of the hotel’s customers are employees of various airlines and airline passengers.
- Commercial Hotel: It is usually located in the heart of the city, where most of the customers are business people or traders who will stay only 2-3 nights at a time.
- Bed and Breakfast (B&B): is a type of small guesthouse where one gets a room with breakfast included in the price. Bed and breakfasts are usually private or family homes with fewer than 10 bedrooms. Also known as “guest accommodation”
- Congress Hotel: This type of hotel has a large meeting room or event venue with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, with banquet halls.
- Health Spa: Hotel with medical care, fitness and other recreational services.
- Holiday Village: Houses built in the form of small huts or bungalows but with several houses in the same area usually have rooms and cooking facilities ready.
- Homestay: Accommodation at people’s private homes.
- Hostel: a building providing rooms for students or for young people cheaply. This hotel is a simple, affordable accommodation that only offers room and breakfast services.
- Motel: Hotel with parking and other services that is generally located on the side of highways or main roads. Motels usually offer comfortable rooms and sometimes have a small restaurant
- Resort Hotel: It is usually located at a seaside, river, or mountain resort, with guests or customers coming for leisure and staying several days.
- Self-Catering Hotel: This type of accommodation targets long stayers who prefer to cook their own meals. This type of hotel offers a small kitchen and kitchen amenities with the guest room.
- Summer Hotel: A type of hotel that is open during the summer.
- Suite Hotels: series of rooms in a hotel, suitable for a family, typically two bedrooms, sitting room plus bathroom.
15 Popular Types Of Hotel Rooms
- Adjoining rooms: Two or more attached or adjoining bedrooms.
- Bed-sitting room: Room for sitting during the day and sleeping at night.
- Cabana: A type of shelter often found near beaches lakes or pools.
- Connecting rooms: Two or more bedrooms with open doors from the inside of the room.
- Double room: Room with a large bed for 2 people
- Double room with bath: Double bedroom with en-suite bathroom.
- Duplex: 2-storey suite with stairs inside
- Hospitality room / display room: A room with banquet facilities
- Junior suite: Large room that separates the bedroom from the living room area.
- Non-smoking room: A type of room that is intended for people who do not want to smoke.
- Parlor: It is a room where people can sit and talk and relax.
- Room with balcony: Bedroom with a raised balcony extending from the building.
- Single room: assigned to one person or a couple. This type of rooms has one bathroom, a small dressing table, a small bedside table, and a small writing table.
- Single room with shower: Single bedroom with shower.
- Studio room: Room with 1 bed and a sofa bed that can be converted into a bed for 1 or 2 people.
- Suite: A much larger accommodation with a living room, an attached bathroom, one or two bedrooms, a living area, and a dining area as well.
Useful Hotel Expressions And Hotel Phrases: Types of Hotel Accommodation
The following expressions, phrases, sentences, and questions are mostly used by people when talking about what they think is important in a hotel, what they like and dislike, and how they describe the various types of rooms and accommodation.
| I think most of the big hotels are impersonal. |
| For me, the ideal hotel has big rooms with comfortable beds… |
| The hotel should be as near the center of town as possible |
| I enjoy staying in hotels |
| I can’t stand lying on a beach all day |
| I like smaller hotels |
| I love going on vacation |
| There’s an oval swimming-pool |
| There’s a telephone by the bed |
| It’s a large sunny room with a view of the sea |
| Everything you need is included in the room |
| We keep the extra tissues in the cupboard under the washbasin |
| Some of the single rooms have a shower only |
| Make sure there’s always plenty of toilet paper |
| A spacious with good facilities and a gorgeous beach, ideal for families |
| The sheets are changed every day |
| There’s a desk by the window, with two very comfortable chairs |
| There’s full air-conditioning |
| Are there any flowers in the room? |
| There are plenty of coat hangers |
Hotel Vocabulary: 22 Adjectives Related to Hotel
This is an essential hotel vocabulary list that covers some useful hotel adjectives that best describe rooms, views, entertainment, and staff in the hotel industry:
Hotel Room Equipment Vocabulary List: Hotel Vocabulary A to Z
When booking a hotel room, some guests might enquire about various equipment, furniture, and objects a room has. This is an essential list of things and words connected with hotels and accommodation.
Words Associated With Hotels: Room Equipment
- Air-conditioner
- Bed
- Bedding; bedclothes
- Bedside light
- Bedside table
- Blanket
- Breakfast tray
- Carpet
- CD player
- Chair
- Clothes hanger
- Cot/baby cot
- Curtains
- Desk
- Door-knob
- Double bed
- Drawer
- Dressing table
- Easy chair
- Extra bed
- Flower vase
- Fruit bucket
- Glass
- Hotel stationery
- Laundry bag
- Light bulb
- Luggage table
- Match
- Mattress
- Mini-bar ( refrigerator; fridge)
- Mirror
- Personal safe
- Pillow
- Pillowcase
- Plug
- Radio
- Radio alarm
- Reading lamp
- Remote control
- Room service menu
- Sheet; bed-sheet
- Shelf
- Shoe polish
- Slippers
- Telephone
- Telephone directories (Telephone book)
- Television receiver
- Trouser press
- Venetian blind
- Wardrobe
- Waste paper basket
- Water jug
- Writing paper
Words Associated With Hotels: Toilet Amenities
- Adapter
- Bathtub
- Bath mat
- Bottle opener
- Button
- Clothes-line
- Comb
- Detergent; washing powder
- Eau de Cologne
- Hair-dryer
- Hand towel
- Mirror
- Needle
- (electric) razor
- Safety pin
- Sanitary napkin/towel
- Shampoo
- Shaver socket
- Shower
- Shower curtain
- Soap
- Tap
- Thread
- Toilet
- Toilet flush
- Toilet paper
- Toilet paper holder
- Towel; bath towel
- Towel trail
- Washbasin
Words Associated With Hotels: Restaurant Equipment
- Ashtray
- Bottle opener
- Bowl
- Bread plate
- Bread-basket
- Candlestick
- Carafe
- Chair
- Chopsticks
- Coaster
- Coffee cup
- Coffee pot
- Condiment set
- Egg cup; egg holder
- Dish
- Folder
- Folk
- Flower vase
- Glass
- High chair
- Ice bucket
- Ice tongs
- Knife
- Menu
- Milk jug
- Napkin
- Pepper grinder
- Pepper shaker
- Pepperbox, pepper
- Placemat
- Plate
- Salt shaker
- Saucer
- Sauceboat
- Soup cup
- Spoon
- Stirrer
- Straw
- Sugar bowl
- Table
- Table cloth
- Tent card
- Teapot
- Toothpick holder
- Tray
- Trolley
- Water jug
16 Useful Expressions Associated with Hotel and Catering
Expressions you say
- I’d like a single room, please.
- Does the hotel have a swimming pool?
- Could I have a wake-up call at 6 am, please?
- I’d like a room for two nights, please.
- What time do we have to check out?
- Is breakfast included?
- I have a reservation under the name of Smith.
- We need a cot for the baby, please.
Expressions you hear
- Here’s your key. It’s room 897.
- Check-out is at midday.
- Would you like someone to help you with your bags?
- What name was the reservation made under?
- Breakfast is served between 7 and 11.
- It’s on the fourth floor.
- The lift is just over there.
- Shall I call a taxi for you?
20 Words Associated with Hotel and Catering
1. Reception / front desk
the area at the hotel entrance where you can book rooms or ask questions. The receptionist is usually behind a long table.
2. Guest
a person who is staying in a hotel.
3. Room service
if a hotel has “room service”, it will bring food and drinks to guests’ rooms.
4. Suite
the most luxurious room in a hotel
5. Reservation
if you make a “reservation”, you telephone the hotel and arrange to have a room on a particular day.
6. Hotel manager
the person in charge of the hotel and the staff who work there.
7. Air-conditioning
a machine that produces cold air.
8. Check-in
when you “check-in” to a hotel, you go to the front desk and tell them that you’ve arrived.
9. Check out
when someone “checks out”, they go to the front desk and tell them that they are leaving. people often pay at this point.
10. Lobby
the large area near the entrance just when you walk into a hotel.
11. Bill
a piece of paper with information about how much you have to pay for the hotel room.
12. Heating
a machine that produces warm air.
13. Balcony
an area on the outside of a room with a parapet or railing (a guard or barrier) around it.
14. View
what one can see from the hotel window: the land, sea, mountains, etc.
15. Floor
the second “floor” of a building (for example) refers to the second level of that building with all the rooms on it.
16. Wake-up call
a telephone call that a hotel makes to your room to wake you up at a specific time.
17. Porter/bellboy
a person whose job is to carry people’s cases to their rooms in a hotel.
18. Key card
a special plastic card with information recorded on it that can be read by an electronic device, which can be used instead of a door key
19. Lift / elevator
a machine used for carrying people and things to different levels in a building
20. Star rating
classification according to a grading system of one to five stars. this classification is commonly used in hotel ratings.
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