Boutique hotels redefining holidays

Nowadays whenever anyone makes plans for their holiday, vacation or a business trip, they ask themselves the question – why don’t I stay or book ourselves at a boutique hotel rather than a regular hotel?

We all know that accommodation while holidaying plays a very important role in making your holiday a hit or a flop. It can add an extra spice in your experiences from that holiday. But it holds a big surprise that 80 percent of people don’t take it as seriously as it should be and choose any hotel to stay during their vacations. If you have got your vacation arranged by a tour operator, then there is no doubt that they will provide you a hotel which will look more like any other on the same street with same bedrooms, same bathroom fittings, same furnishing on the wall and for the staff of that hotel, you are just a customer rather than a guest.

Five star hotels or the chain hotels are acceptable but what if at the same cost, you can get the service as fit for a king, you will be staying in a hotel where everyone cares about you and your tastes and your choices, you could be facing the staff whose every action will show you that they are making every effort to make your stay as pleasurable as possible – welcome to the world of boutique hotels. Now, the question is how are boutique hotels different?

A big hotel is built on the same theme. Everything looks same and identical. According to critics, you go to any hotel, anywhere in the world; you will not feel the difference. The reason is that, its rooms, its bathrooms, its lobby, its corridor, its swimming pool area, all look the same. Boutique hotels on the other hand are designed very creatively and have minds working behind them. That is why no boutique hotel will appear the same. Boutique hotels are not just different from each other, but most of them even have their rooms different from each other, giving you plenty of choice of themes and allowing to stay in a room which is more compatible with your personality.

In boutique hotels, guests are taken as priority and the main thing is they are treated as guests and not as a customer. These hotels know all guest requests are handled first, hence; most of their time goes in arranging all the things as per the taste and likings of their guests. Boutique hotels also have to work under the principle of rooms for guests and public area for sharing, intermingling and meeting each other. Boutique hotel ensures that every room has its own style and it has to be, according to the interest of the guest. They also check that the guest spends most of his time in the hotel rather than basking around. Probably, this could be the reason why boutique hotels concentrate more on quality and size of the room, rather than the quantity. By this they can provide a very uniquely designed bathroom, big bed with royal looks, and open areas in and around your room. The main emphasis is laid on making you see the hotel rather than the tourist destinations of that particular area. They want to make everyone come to a boutique hotel once and then go there every time.

Staying in a boutique hotel will definitely give you something more than what you get by staying in any other hotel. You will surely want to tell others about its qualities rather than counting infinite shortcomings of some form of the 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