When most people think of a hotel, they think about getting a room for the night that has a bed, bathroom and television. This is what is called a normal hotel. These kinds of hotels range from providing standard amenities to their guests to providing more luxurious services. These luxury accommodating hotels are known as 5-star hotels and boutique hotels. But, there is actually quite a difference between boutique hotels and 5-star hotels that offer similar amenities. Many people confuse the two because they both seem high class. They are right, except that the function of the hotels is different.
Boutique hotels are kind of individualized because they tend to have a specific theme to their facilities. Like for example, there are hotels that cater to couples on their honeymoon or couples simply looking for a romantic getaway. With these hotels, you can expect the rooms to have many heart shaped designs and themes to them. Then there are resort hotels, which are also boutique hotels because they cater to people on vacation or looking for a relaxing getaway. Some resort hotels even sell their rooms as vacation property, which is also referred to as timeshares. The way it works is people can purchase a specific time period during the year to stay in a particular room of the hotel. This time period is usually referred to by the week number of the year, like week 26 or week 40. Then the guest will actually receive a timeshare deed of ownership for that room in the resort hotel for their specified week. This means nobody else will be able to stay in that room during their week except for them. You may be wondering, “How do these boutique hotels make money from doing this?” Well they usually have very high association and annual fees that they charge to their timeshare owners. Sometimes these fees can be many thousands of dollars per year, which makes up for the hotel’s expense of not being able to rent that room out to anyone else. A normal 5-star hotel doesn’t do things like this because they take reservations like any other hotel.
There are many other themed style boutique hotels around the world. You can find themes for lovers of music, movies and more. But these hotels aren’t just for anybody looking for a place to sleep for the night. That is what normal hotels are for. Boutique hotels require very early notice when booking a room because they usually have a very limited number of vacancies available at all times. That is because most of the rooms are either timeshare owned or already booked way in advanced. You may even have to book your room six months to a year in advance because that is how high the popularity is for booking these hotels.