Hotels Summary p1

Hotels are classified according to:

• Location:
1. Town
2. Suburbs
(Club Hotels- Airport Hotels –Motels)
3. Resorts
• Rate
• Usage
Location
1\Town hotels
• Location:
- on the main streets
- can be seen from more than one axis of
movement
• Accessibility :
-can be reached easily
- Located next to the train stations
-have vertical extension
 - Surface parking spaces are narrow
- Must have wide yard in front of the hotel
entrance.
- Must be a landmark in the urban fabric of
the city and integrated with the
surroundings
2\ Suburbs hotels:
-The concept of place for a picnic and
spend a day or two in a different place from
home
- lower prices than hotels downtown with
more services
-wide area
-horizontal extension
Motels:
• Location: heigh ways so it can be seen
over a long distance
• Wide parking area
• Provide some entertainment elements
such as swimming pools and restaurants
Airport hotels:
• Horizontal direction
• Entrances are wide? as they receive a
large number of guests at one time.
• Some of them may be associated with
mobile access tunnel at the airport lounge
Resorts:
As in the previous types of hotel designs;
guestrooms and services are the same, but
they take a different form of distribution,
where the horizontal sense is dominant
Usage
•Conferences’ Hotels.
•Ports Hotels
•Mega Hotels
•Residential Hotels
•Mixed Use Hotels
•Environmental Hotel
Conferences’ Hotels:
• Location: near transportation lines or near
airports
Residential Hotels
• Location :in the middle of residential areas
and near the high level administrative
locations.
• similar to the downtown hotels in terms of
tightness, high price of land and rare
Mega Hotels
• Space is limited in this type of hotel, so the
services are in a minimalistic
• The basic idea of this type of buildings is
the exchange of benefits between its
various parts
• considered as iconic building
Ports’ Hotels
• used by the yacht owners
Mixed Use Hotels :like city stars
Environmental hotels : hotels in Siwa
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• Hotels Layout and Area Requirements
the areas of built space required for hotel
functions vary with:
‐ Hotel company standards
‐ Grade of hotel ‐ Specific facilities offered
‐ Location
The size and number of beds largely
dictates dimensions and layout of rooms
• Rooms layout
Single loaded corridor
Double loaded corridor
• Guest rooms
Regular suit
Accommodation room
• Hotels lobby
• Management
• Basement
• Restaurant
• Kitchen
• Public and stuff circulation