Hotel lovers and visitors know what value the French word “Boutique” has in the hotel industry. This name spills grandeur, royalty, uniqueness and in some cases even wackiness. All these elements make boutique hotels a combination to look out for, for the eternal holiday lover who enjoys experimenting and that too, in style.
Location is a very important aspect when it comes to any hotel, more so in case of a boutique hotel. A boutique hotel should be placed in a location that is frequented by travelers. It should be easily accessible by all means of transport. It should be such that most of the landmarks that the tourists come to visit are around the hotel at convenient distances. The location should be peaceful, full of solitude yet bustling with tourists. All this sounds a little hard to achieve and that is how it is, as hunting for an appropriate location for a boutique hotel is certainly not a cakewalk. But a hotel that cracks this step will vouch for the benefits that follow such a careful and well thought about decision.
But due to the lack of space in prime locations, it is a little difficult to find such places. But the hotel lovers have found a way out here too. So converting old palaces and castles and dilapidated buildings into boutique hotels has caught the fascination of many. Of course these structures are extensively renovated and modified to suit the tastes of their customers. And the result is nothing less than exemplary. But it is necessary that when you renovate, you keep the old flavor of the structure intact and then go ahead and make way for more facilities and amenities. For the original charm of the place helps the hotel to blend into the local environment and does not leave the hotel looking like an outcast in the entire setup. All this is also instrumental in dragging tourists to it, as they can then identify with the hotel.
One misconception about boutique hotels is that they have to be flashy and show-off to attract the customers. This is one of the most wrong impressions about these hotels. For there are many hotels around the world that have very simple architecture and interiors, but still they are a hit with the tourists. The service here, needless to say, is on par with the other hotels, but what they offer sometimes is more valuable than the others- lot of privacy and quietude.
Another myth about these hotels is that, any hotel with a theme is a boutique hotel. But the truth remains that a boutique hotel may be a themed hotel but the vice versa need not always be true. For, a boutique hotel is much much more than only the theme. They are an aggregate of far superior things that make them so special and popular.
Every thing in a boutique hotel, and that includes its theme, should be detailed and should be able to strike a chord with its guests. The service should be from the heart to reach the guest’s heart and a good boutique hotel knows about this and follows it religiously. Boutique hotels are replete with all the luxuries that you can ask for. All you have to do is just sit back and relax and decide if you have to come back again or not, which we bet you will!
Author Bio
Kobrun Vidisdottir is the Managing Director of the 101 Hotel which is one of the premier Boutique Hotels in Reykjavik, Iceland. For more information please visit www.101hotel.is
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Boutique Hotels – Everything under a single roof
When you go to a new place, you obviously want to know more about it. You want to know about all the aspects of the place, such as its culture, tradition, cuisine, music, art and entertainment. But imagine that you get all of this and more, at one place and under a single roof; will it not be great? Boutique hotels all over the world have understood this need of their customers and have time and again proved to be the best place for tourists to get acquainted with the local flavor. Boutique hotels have all that it takes to make you know your place of visit better. They incorporate so much of the concerned location that you need not look anywhere else to know more about it. These hotels are based in the best locations of the town and that makes them all the more attractive and worth staying in. For if you get to stay in beautiful locales for all part of your journey, what is better than that? They give you the best food, the best music and the best first hand introduction of every nuance of the culture of your host country or place.
You must have seen two entirely different boutique hotels. But even within a boutique hotel there is a lot of variety. Be it the rooms, the lobbies, the bars or the pools, every small corner here has a theme if its own. So if you go from one place to another in the same hotel, you will feel that you have been transported from one era to another. Or you may get to live in different ambiences that are characteristic of the host country.
Whether you want solitude or hustle and bustle, boutique hotels will give you what you will ask from them. Whether your idea of unwinding is a cup of coffee by the window with the sun setting in the background or if it is going scuba diving, then be sure to get just that.
And if you speak of the service given by these hotels, the more you say of it is going to be less. The service is first-class and they literally make you feel like a king or queen in a lavish palace. All your demands are their top priority and that is how they deal with them.
If after hearing all of this you are wondering that the cost of staying in a boutique hotel is going to be too much to handle, then think about this- boutique hotels give you ten times more than what you pay them. So even if you have to shell out a little extra, you know that it is going to be multiplied and returned back to you.
Once you visit a boutique hotel you would want to come back again and again. And you are not the only one who has been smitten by the magic of these hotels, as people all over the world have been coming under the spell of these enchanting hotels all the time!
Author Bio
Kobrun Vidisdottir is the Managing Director of the 101 Hotel which is one of the premier Boutique Hotels in Reykjavik, Iceland. For more information please visit www.101hotel.is
You must have seen two entirely different boutique hotels. But even within a boutique hotel there is a lot of variety. Be it the rooms, the lobbies, the bars or the pools, every small corner here has a theme if its own. So if you go from one place to another in the same hotel, you will feel that you have been transported from one era to another. Or you may get to live in different ambiences that are characteristic of the host country.
Whether you want solitude or hustle and bustle, boutique hotels will give you what you will ask from them. Whether your idea of unwinding is a cup of coffee by the window with the sun setting in the background or if it is going scuba diving, then be sure to get just that.
And if you speak of the service given by these hotels, the more you say of it is going to be less. The service is first-class and they literally make you feel like a king or queen in a lavish palace. All your demands are their top priority and that is how they deal with them.
If after hearing all of this you are wondering that the cost of staying in a boutique hotel is going to be too much to handle, then think about this- boutique hotels give you ten times more than what you pay them. So even if you have to shell out a little extra, you know that it is going to be multiplied and returned back to you.
Once you visit a boutique hotel you would want to come back again and again. And you are not the only one who has been smitten by the magic of these hotels, as people all over the world have been coming under the spell of these enchanting hotels all the time!
Author Bio
Kobrun Vidisdottir is the Managing Director of the 101 Hotel which is one of the premier Boutique Hotels in Reykjavik, Iceland. For more information please visit www.101hotel.is
Boutique Hotels – Building an unique identity
Boutique hotels have an identity of their own and that is how they have been so successful in making a mark of their own in this over-crowded world of hospitality, that is so full of hotels of every kind and some more hotels. In fact, boutique hotels have been so popular that they did not need much publicity even when they started out. A little publicity also worked for them tremendously and has got them to where they stand today.
Boutique hotels in general are quite contrary to the concept of hotels that everyone had till a few years ago. They are usually smaller than the other hotels. They have managed to change the way people look at spending their holidays or leisure time. Boutique hotels have been a boon to the consumers who had been dying to witness a change in the mundane hotels that they had to visit every time.
A good boutique hotel is such that you will never ever get bored here and have something new and exciting to do every single day of your stay. Either the activities here keep you busy or the staff here ensures that you have the time of your life. There is never a dull moment in here. Every tiny detail is looked into in these hotels- be it the customer service or even the interiors, they are almost flawless.
Due to the huge demand, you can see boutique hotels springing just about anywhere these days. But what one should be looking at is the quality of these. Though there are so many of them, you should try to get the best deal and go only to the best of them. For true boutique hotels will give you an experience to remember for a lifetime.
Thanks to the large number of boutique hotels that are coming up everywhere, the one who has benefited from this is the consumer, as the hotels are then available at lower prices. Getting top-class service at such low rates is definitely like a dream come true for the consumers.
And even in this competitive market, the hotels that have stood taller are those who have realized the importance of sticking to the basics, which have the ability to withstand the insecurities and instability of the market.
A few things to keep in mind when planning to set up a new boutique hotel or when trying to reverse the fate of a poor performing one are, choose a suitable location for the hotel, try to target the right consumers, use all means of marketing effectively, have proper foresight and stick to the budget and you should be fine.
Besides being good, a boutique hotel should be unique and exclusive and that ensures its popularity. And this goodness and uniqueness should be reflected in every aspect i.e. in case of the interiors, service, ambience, food- you name it and it should be what the customers have not come across before. Thus the hotel needs to be different than the ten others of its kind. And there you have the key to make a successfully run boutique hotel!
Author Bio
Kobrun Vidisdottir is the Managing Director of the 101 Hotel which is one of the premier Boutique Hotels in Reykjavik, Iceland. For more information please visit www.101hotel.is
Boutique hotels in general are quite contrary to the concept of hotels that everyone had till a few years ago. They are usually smaller than the other hotels. They have managed to change the way people look at spending their holidays or leisure time. Boutique hotels have been a boon to the consumers who had been dying to witness a change in the mundane hotels that they had to visit every time.
A good boutique hotel is such that you will never ever get bored here and have something new and exciting to do every single day of your stay. Either the activities here keep you busy or the staff here ensures that you have the time of your life. There is never a dull moment in here. Every tiny detail is looked into in these hotels- be it the customer service or even the interiors, they are almost flawless.
Due to the huge demand, you can see boutique hotels springing just about anywhere these days. But what one should be looking at is the quality of these. Though there are so many of them, you should try to get the best deal and go only to the best of them. For true boutique hotels will give you an experience to remember for a lifetime.
Thanks to the large number of boutique hotels that are coming up everywhere, the one who has benefited from this is the consumer, as the hotels are then available at lower prices. Getting top-class service at such low rates is definitely like a dream come true for the consumers.
And even in this competitive market, the hotels that have stood taller are those who have realized the importance of sticking to the basics, which have the ability to withstand the insecurities and instability of the market.
A few things to keep in mind when planning to set up a new boutique hotel or when trying to reverse the fate of a poor performing one are, choose a suitable location for the hotel, try to target the right consumers, use all means of marketing effectively, have proper foresight and stick to the budget and you should be fine.
Besides being good, a boutique hotel should be unique and exclusive and that ensures its popularity. And this goodness and uniqueness should be reflected in every aspect i.e. in case of the interiors, service, ambience, food- you name it and it should be what the customers have not come across before. Thus the hotel needs to be different than the ten others of its kind. And there you have the key to make a successfully run boutique hotel!
Author Bio
Kobrun Vidisdottir is the Managing Director of the 101 Hotel which is one of the premier Boutique Hotels in Reykjavik, Iceland. For more information please visit www.101hotel.is
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