hotelho‧tel /həʊˈtel $ hoʊ-/ ●●● S2 W1 noun [countable] 
I’ve booked the flights and the hotel. We’ll be at the Hotel Ibis.COLLOCATIONSverbsstay at/in a hotel· We stayed in a hotel near the airport.check into a hotel (also book into a hotel British English)· He checked into the hotel a little after 2 pm.check out of a hotel (=leave a hotel)· We packed and checked out of the hotel.run/manage a hotel· They run a small hotel in Cornwall.hotel + NOUNa hotel room· She was watching TV in her hotel room.a hotel suite (=a set of rooms in a hotel)· The singer was staying in a luxury hotel suite.hotel accommodation British English, hotel accommodations American English (=rooms in a hotel)· The price includes hotel accommodation.a hotel guest· Hotel guests have free use of the gym and pool.the hotel restaurant/bar/gym· The hotel bar was empty.the hotel reception/lobby· She waited for him in the hotel lobby.adjectivesa luxury hotel (=an expensive and comfortable hotel)· a luxury hotel in central Londona two-star/three-star etc hotel (=a hotel that has been given a particular rating)· On our honeymoon, we stayed in a four-star hotel in Paris.THESAURUShotel a building where people pay to stay and eat meals: · We’re staying at a hotel in Salzburg.· the Plaza Hotel in New York· a four-star hotelmotel a hotel for people travelling by car, usually with a place for the car near each room: · the Palm Court Motel on Highway 23inn a small hotel, especially an old one in the countryside. Also used in the names of some big modern hotels: · an 18th-century country inn· the Holiday Innbed and breakfast (also B & B) a private house or small hotel, where you can sleep and have breakfast: · There’s a nice bed and breakfast in the village.· I’ve got a list of bed and breakfasts from the tourist information.guesthouse a private house where people can pay to stay and have meals: · We stayed in a well-run guesthouse near the sea.hostel/youth hostel a very cheap hotel where people can stay for a short time while they are travelling. Hostels are used especially by young people: · New Zealand has a network of small hostels, ideal for backpackers.
WORD ORIGINhotel
Origin:
1600-1700 French hôtel, from Old French hostel; ➔ HOSTELEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- At dock, the operation would be supported with a Westernthemed entertainment complex and a 300-room hotel.
- Despite the lack of gas and electricity, the hotel coffee was hot.
- Don't phone home from your hotel.
- He took all meals in his room, owed money to the hotel, expected a visit from an assistant manager.
- Its strength and abrasion resistance have made it ideal for shoe cleaning cloths, as provided by most hotel chains.
- Police raided its founding conference at a Casablanca hotel, where 40 people were arrested and cautioned.
- Tents and marquees have traditionally been used in the grounds of hotels and country clubs for special functions such as receptions and parties.
- The hotels and restaurants failed to prosper.
THESAURUS
a building where people pay to stay and eat meals: · We’re staying at a hotel in Salzburg.· the Plaza Hotel in New York· a four-star hotel
a hotel for people travelling by car, usually with a place for the car near each room: · the Palm Court Motel on Highway 23
a small hotel, especially an old one in the countryside. Also used in the names of some big modern hotels: · an 18th-century country inn· the Holiday Inn
(also B & B) a private house or small hotel, where you can sleep and have breakfast: · There’s a nice bed and breakfast in the village.· I’ve got a list of bed and breakfasts from the tourist information.
a private house where people can pay to stay and have meals: · We stayed in a well-run guesthouse near the sea.
a very cheap hotel where people can stay for a short time while they are travelling. Hostels are used especially by young people: · New Zealand has a network of small hostels, ideal for backpackers.
WORD SETSà la carte, adjectivebag, nounbaggage, nounB and B, bed and breakfast, nounbellboy, nounbellhop, nounboarder, nounboarding house, nounboardwalk, nouncaravanning, nouncaravanserai, nouncarry-on, adjectivecase, nounchalet, nouncheckout, nounclerk, nounconcierge, nouncourier, nouncourtesy, adjectivecruise, nouncruise ship, noundesk, noundesk clerk, noundining room, noundocent, noundude ranch, nounen suite, adjectiveexcursion, nounfirst class, nounflophouse, nounfly-drive holiday, nounfull board, noungame park, noungame reserve, noungreen card, nounguest book, nounguesthouse, nounguide, nounguided tour, nounhalf board, nounhand luggage, nounhigh season, nounholiday camp, nounholiday home, nounhostel, nounhostelry, nounhotel, nounhotelier, nounhousekeeper, nouninn, nounLilo, nounlow season, nounmecca, nounmotel, nounmotor home, nounmystery tour, nounnational monument, nounnational park, nounnight porter, nounnon-resident, nounone-star, adjectivepackage tour, nounpacking, nounpension, nounpiste, nounportmanteau, nounreception, nounresort, nounroom service, nounsafari, nounsafari park, nounself-catering, adjectiveshowplace, nounsightseeing, nounsightseer, nounstar, nounsuitcase, nounsuite, nounsundeck, nountimeshare, nountime-sharing, nountour, nountour, verbtourist, nountourist office, nountourist trap, nountouristy, adjectivetour operator, nountravel agency, nountravel agent, nountravel bureau, nountwo-star, adjectivevacancy, nounvacation, verbvacationer, nounvalet, nounvalise, nounvisit, verbvisitors' book, nounwatering place, nounwaxwork, nounyouth hostel, nounyouth hostelling, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs A waiter was handing round freebie glasses of wine. Have you signed the hotel register?
· We stayed in a hotel near the airport.
(also book into a hotel British English)· He checked into the hotel a little after 2 pm.
(=leave a hotel)· We packed and checked out of the hotel.
· They run a small hotel in Cornwall.
hotel + NOUN· She was watching TV in her hotel room.
(=a set of rooms in a hotel)· The singer was staying in a luxury hotel suite.
British English, hotel accommodations American English (=rooms in a hotel)· The price includes hotel accommodation.
· Hotel guests have free use of the gym and pool.
· The hotel bar was empty.
· She waited for him in the hotel lobby.
adjectives (=an expensive and comfortable hotel)· a luxury hotel in central London
(=a hotel that has been given a particular rating)· On our honeymoon, we stayed in a four-star hotel in Paris.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· He paid the hotel bill by credit card.
· Ross found a good hotel and booked a room.
· Hilton is an international hotel chain.
· This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
· Our taxi pulled up outside the hotel entrance.
· With its marble columns and crystal chandeliers, the Crillon is one of the most exclusive hotels in Paris.
· Make use of the hotel facilities, which are excellent.
A waiter was handing round freebie glasses of wine.· They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
Have you signed the hotel register?· I canceled my hotel reservation.
· There are plans for a major resort hotel and golf course to be built.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Older or better-heeled visitors have a choice of comfortable hotels, where rooms go for about $ 50 per night.· This is a well-equipped and comfortable hotel, offering good value for money.· AH4 Grades: Highly recommended, comfortable 4 star hotels, offering a higher standard of facilities.· Villanova Hotel D Comfortable friendly hotel.· It's a friendly, comfortable welcoming hotel with good rooms, all of which have facilities and balconies.
· A large hotel with several floors would have a density chart for every floor.· At some of the larger hotels the amount was said to approach six thousand.· The company says it is already the largest hotel group in the region.· It supplies about a hundred pubs, and three large hotels in Skegness.· They put up at taverns, boarding houses, and, in the larger towns, hotels.· There are no longer any large functioning hotels and there are no conference centres.· It had the proportions of a very large grand hotel such as the Plaza-very bulky and very low.
· He began to read a piece about the proposed transformation of a disused mill into a luxury hotel.· Accommodation varies from luxury hotels to farmhouses.· More recently, this was made into a luxury hotel for the top brass of the Communist world.· Floirat also owned luxury hotels, the principal concern of the new conglomerate Matra-Hachette.· Today it is a luxury hotel about 15 minutes walk from the centre of Florence.· This luxury hotel is located a little way out of town, past Reid's, on the road to Cãmara de Lobos.· The item states' Guests at a luxury hotel were poisoned by cyanide in the swimming pool yesterday.· Buses were destroyed and a luxury tourist hotel burnt to the ground, although no holidaymakers were injured.
· Hotel am Thielenplatz A modern hotel situated right in the city centre and only 300 metres walk from the railway station.· Two modern hotels at Willerby offer superior services over a large area, in addition to several public houses dispensing their brands of hospitality.· Detail some of the features of modern hotel communication systems. 15.· This modern three-star hotel is conveniently located in the city.· This modern 3 star hotel has proved very popular with our guests and is well recommended.· The system has been designed and developed specifically for use in today's modern hotels.
· The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz, forty miles away.· He wore well-pressed fatigues and had the distant look of a doorman in a gold coat outside a new hotel.· When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years.· We made a date to meet at a New York hotel anyway.· The Sheraton Hotel Edinburgh's newest luxury hotel.· Last year, commissioners approved the concept of three new or expanded hotels in the south Embarcadero.· Suarez predicts that new hotels, new signs and a new consciousness will be ready in a year or two.
· My companion and I walked towards a small, nearby hotel that we knew.· It was your basic small, upscale hotel room.· He could still be here, staying at some small hotel.· Running a small, intimate hotel was his dream.· An additional number-primarily owners of small hotels and motels-were self-employed.· She had slept so badly in the small hotel.· Like Kimpton, Conley believes that the small tightly run hotel is often the better route to profitability.
· It's a three star hotel patronised by many different nationalities.· AH4 Grades: Highly recommended, comfortable 4 star hotels, offering a higher standard of facilities.· One lucky reader and a friend will stay in a 3 star hotel in the heart of New York.· Utell launched Summi International Hotels, a new consortium specialising in deluxe and five star hotels.· Bed and breakfast or half-board. 3, 4 or 5 star hotels can also be arranged on request.· There is now a modem three star hotel if you wish to spend the night in Ribeira Brava.
NOUN· We chose Bedford as it was almost the only place in the locality where hotel accommodation was available.· Included in the cost are round-trip airfare from New York, hotel accommodations, kosher breakfasts and dinners, sightseeing and transfers.· The first prize includes return flights London-Delhi, half-board hotel accommodation and all transfers.· After the war everything cost more: gasoline, buses, hotel accommodations, and musicians' salaries.· An allowance is made for unused hotel accommodation in Bangkok.· The price of your fly-drive holiday includes both car hire and hotel accommodation vouchers.· The hotel accommodation is provided by the Friendly Hotels Group.· The company also paid for one week's hotel accommodation for the employee and spouse to house hunt in the new location.
· Rather than stop him, we drain it and then decide to order more -- at the hotel bar.· Though Manhattan sports any number of bars capable of making a great drink, the grand hotel bar is a rare breed.· So it's come to this; sitting in a hotel bar in New Orleans partaking in solvent abuse.· In our quest for experiencing the ultimate New York hotel bar, we must pare down the prospects.· But I digress ... We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar.· But what is it doing in a grown-up hotel bar?· We're in the hotel bar after the second show, when we hear the bad news.· The tale: A business traveler meets a seductive woman in a hotel bar.
· Average room and car rates based on averages from 10 leading hotel chains and six car-rental companies.· Its strength and abrasion resistance have made it ideal for shoe cleaning cloths, as provided by most hotel chains.· The group would continue to manage its various hotel chains, which include Sofitel, Mercure and Novotel.· Acorn would provide us with a ready-made hotel chain ripe for further expansion.· We worked with one hotel chain that avowed to the point of dementia its commitment to customer service and comfort.· But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries, he has never actually managed a hotel.
· Bodie had arrived in the hotel lobby just after Lin Foh had left his room.· In the hotel lobby she continues to teach her own hard-learned lessons.· I am unaware that any of this is going to happen as I enter the hotel lobby on my way to dinner.· Dominic had met one person in the hotel lobby, in Paris.· Rachel is inside the hotel lobby, waiting for me to walk her upstairs and round off our meal.· We left the vast ballroom and headed for the bar in the hotel lobby.· As I walk through the hotel lobby in Manila I know that something is up.· Time-share hucksters lurk in many hotel lobbies.
· By comparison with the cold cobbled alleys, the hotel restaurant was a scene of throbbing gaiety.· He glanced at the two doors of the hotel restaurant, automatically looking for police.· Shall I go down and eat in the hotel restaurant, or shall I go out?· She agreed, and the next day she and a girlfriend met Garcia for lunch at a hotel restaurant.· They competed to see who could eat most in the hotel restaurant and gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas.· Going Upscale For lunch-goers with an expense account, two classic hotel restaurants offer lavish possibilities.· They had dinner at the hotel restaurant on their first night.· There isn't a hotel restaurant, but when it comes to eating out in Stuttgart you're spoilt for choice.
· He sat on the edge of the bed in his hotel room and waited for the phone to be answered.· That afternoon the phone rang in my hotel room.· They finished chatting in the afternoon, and the researcher went back to her hotel room.· It was your basic small, upscale hotel room.· Mac had a girlfriend and a baby with whom he lived in a Bayswater hotel room provided by Westminster Council.· Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.· Every hotel room in a 40-mile radius was booked.· In that hotel room in Carlsbad, I wondered what I would want in their shoes.
· The morning visit to Victor's hotel suite would be a waste of time.· There's not a Pringle sweater to be seen in his hotel suite.· He'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham, spending £2,000 a month on clothes.· The two paid a call on former President Bush and his wife, Barbara, at their hotel suite.· She left the track without a backward look, intent on hiding in the hotel suite until Ace returned to rescue her.· The Harrick hotel suite was bustling in the early morning of April 4, 1995.
VERB· Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.· No one knows how many are coming; the fully booked hotels say perhaps 100,000.· You needn't, but I thought ... tonight ... I booked into a hotel and we can go if you like.· After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel.· Instead of booking a class, the passenger booked different forms of sleeping arrangement rather like booking a hotel room.· After booking into a London hotel you will get the chance to relax and meet the other finalists over lunch.· They drove to Bologna and booked into a hotel.
· If you want to build an hotel in an attractive location how attractive does it have to be?· To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time.· Each hotel will cost between $ 5. 4 million and $ 15 million to build.· Conway is building the shops and hotels in the graveyard.· We are basically now committed to building a major international hotels business.
· Said she could check with the hotel if she wanted to be sure.· Margarett would come to New York and check into a hotel.· The police could then check the hotels for that day.· Transfer to Kaprun and check in at the hotel.· When he stays out of town, he frequently checks into deluxe hotels that charge hundreds of dollars a night.· How many people take the trouble to check their hotel or restaurant bills these days?· So check with your hotel or corporate sponsor in advance about possible child-care arrangements.
· Delegates will include senior executives from hotel and catering companies and leading academics.· Cost: $ 2, 300 per person, double occupancy, including hotels, most meals, ground transportation and sightseeing.· These include flights, hotel with private facilities, breakfast, taxes and entrance to the fair.· Some private employers, including hotels and news organizations, have the opposite problem.· Like most package holidays, this includes breakfast at the hotel, but any other meals are additional to the quoted price.· Quikbook. com, which includes detailed hotel descriptions but no photos.· Settings include the airport, hotel, restaurant, and doctor's office.· Accommodations include several hotels and small inns, guest houses, farmhouses and self-catering units.
· The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.· Lining the road are hundreds of what look like workers leaving hotels.· Today he'd left that hotel.· Police said the players had taken their passports and baggage and left their hotel.· By the time she left the hotel Duncan was in bed, the light and television both switched off.· A friend and I, by chance leaving the hotel, stopped to watch the candidates greet the crowd.· Your travel case reminded me of it when we left the hotel.· A Las Vegas police report says Paganelli was leaving a hotel when a police officer stopped him and asked for identification.
· Within the hour the show is cancelled and everyone returns to the hotel to drown their sorrows.· They returned to their hotel, packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.· When I return to the hotel room Lucker is checking the room numbers of the band.· I returned to the hotel hoping to find a message.· Tories more famous than he had come nasty croppers in the past at conference time, returning tight to their hotels.· The teams will return to those hotels Sunday night after the game.· The female Lionisers left the rest of their hollands untouched and began to think in terms of returning to the hotel.· Yesterday, having recovered sufficiently to return to his hotel, he attempted to withdraw from international judo by offering his resignation.
· Its interests run to hotels, construction companies and dabbling in currency futures.· He was such a gracious host, it was remarked that in another life he might have run a great hotel.· Charity runs a couple of hotels there with her husband Luiz Santana.· Are we running a penitentiary, or are we running a hotel?· If they were caught it was Leonore who was running the hotel.· Like Kimpton, Conley believes that the small tightly run hotel is often the better route to profitability.· His campaign is being run from a Darlington hotel.· It was a small, unpretentious, privately run hotel, with small rooms where conversations were not likely to be overheard.
· He could still be here, staying at some small hotel.· I wanted to stay in a hotel.· There are also two-day tours involving overnight stays at country hotels as well as delicious food.· You are staying at a hotel?· Characteristically, Adam decided to stay at the best hotel in Dresden.· He stayed in a local hotel and had the boys join him on weekends.· We were all forced to stay in hotels and eat in hotels and sign for it.· On the second last day Dilip drove to Jodhpur to stay in a hotel.
· Only here and there, as I walked past the seafront hotels, I could see the occasional lighted window.· Masses were ending everywhere in Dublin, and I walked back to my hotel through streams of home-going worshippers.· I told him how it was and he left, walking over to the hotel.· They walked back to the hotel in a silence that was becoming unhappily familiar.· I had walked into a hotel and saw Eddie in a coat and tie across the lobby registering at the desk.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► destination hotel/resort
a building where people pay to stay and eat meals: - A plan, already under way, seeks to manage the tourist trade.
- And with it, the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade.
- But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded, badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade.
- His attempts to corral the tourist trade at the Falls had failed.
- Neither Bradford nor Birmingham regrets entering the tourist trade - the industry waits with bated breath to see how Swindon fares.
- Prospective customers should always be on the look-out for good communication skills and an in-depth knowledge of the hotel trade.
- They say so-called home improvements can kill off the tourist trade.
I’ve booked the flights and the hotel. We’ll be at the Hotel Ibis.COLLOCATIONSverbsstay at/in a hotel· We stayed in a hotel near the airport.check into a hotel (also book into a hotel British English)· He checked into the hotel a little after 2 pm.check out of a hotel (=leave a hotel)· We packed and checked out of the hotel.run/manage a hotel· They run a small hotel in Cornwall.hotel + NOUNa hotel room· She was watching TV in her hotel room.a hotel suite (=a set of rooms in a hotel)· The singer was staying in a luxury hotel suite.hotel accommodation British English, hotel accommodations American English (=rooms in a hotel)· The price includes hotel accommodation.a hotel guest· Hotel guests have free use of the gym and pool.the hotel restaurant/bar/gym· The hotel bar was empty.the hotel reception/lobby· She waited for him in the hotel lobby.adjectivesa luxury hotel (=an expensive and comfortable hotel)· a luxury hotel in central Londona two-star/three-star etc hotel (=a hotel that has been given a particular rating)· On our honeymoon, we stayed in a four-star hotel in Paris.THESAURUShotel a building where people pay to stay and eat meals: · We’re staying at a hotel in Salzburg.· the Plaza Hotel in New York· a four-star hotelmotel a hotel for people travelling by car, usually with a place for the car near each room: · the Palm Court Motel on Highway 23inn a small hotel, especially an old one in the countryside. Also used in the names of some big modern hotels: · an 18th-century country inn· the Holiday Innbed and breakfast (also B & B) a private house or small hotel, where you can sleep and have breakfast: · There’s a nice bed and breakfast in the village.· I’ve got a list of bed and breakfasts from the tourist information.guesthouse a private house where people can pay to stay and have meals: · We stayed in a well-run guesthouse near the sea.hostel/youth hostel a very cheap hotel where people can stay for a short time while they are travelling. Hostels are used especially by young people: · New Zealand has a network of small hostels, ideal for backpackers.