Choosing a tourist or sanatorium ticket, we often pay attention to the type of food in the institution where you have to spend a vacation. It `s naturally. After all, everyone wants to know what is included in the structure of services on vacation, what kind of food to count on, whether it is necessary to have an extra amount of money for expenses for meals outside the hotel. Food categories in hotels are different, which requires some attention.
Type of food is an important criterion when choosing a hotel. Each vacationer chooses for himself a certain type of food, the presence of one form or another of comfort on vacation.
Concept selection
In order not to make a mistake in the choice, you must be able to correctly decipher the food categories in hotels that have a kind of encoding and brief notation. But before choosing the appropriate food system, it is worth weighing the pros and cons, consider some of the main points and features of relaxation.
- Define all the main plans for the rest: pastime, excursion program, eating habits.
- It is necessary to establish for yourself whether unlimited drinking is necessary.
- Read various reviews about the hotel where you plan to spend your vacation.
- If the vacation will be family, then you need to determine the type of food for everyone. Usually a family vacation determines the choice of an all-inclusive system, since each family member has his own principles.
Features
It is worth noting a vacation spot. If the vacation will take place in an exotic country, with special rules for cooking, then in this case it is better to choose "half board" or "continental breakfast." Since the "buffet" program "all inclusive" can spoil the rest by disruption of the digestive tract.
Opportunities
It should be remembered that any service is included in the cost of rest. Tourists pay for everything. This must be remembered when choosing the category of food in hotels. Sometimes saving money on food can provide more opportunities for a cultural program or living in comfortable conditions.
When choosing a tour for relaxation, not everyone knows the decoding of the abbreviation, which is used to indicate the type of food. It is the type of food, and not its range. Food categories in hotels - this is the mode of operation of food points at the hotel. The menu determines the category of the hotel. The higher the "star", the wider the range of dishes offered to vacationers.
Abbreviation of the power system and its decoding
There are various categories of food in hotels. The abbreviation is the following:
1. RO - Room Only. It implies living without free meals, literally translated as “only a room”.
2. JSC - Accommodation Only. In this case, meals are offered at an additional cost, there may be a kitchenette in the room.
3. BO - “without power”. This type involves the convenience of a hotel on the principle of "sleep and relaxation" without any frills.
4. BB - Bed and Breakfast. Only breakfast. Food categories in Turkey hotels include a buffet in the main restaurant for breakfast. The rest of the time, meals are provided at the hotel for an additional fee. All drinks are paid. There are additional classifiers of this type of food:
- BP - Bermuda Plan. Breakfast includes a varied, nutritious meal resembling lunch.
- CP - Continental Plan or CB - Continental Breakfast. Breakfast is quite light, consisting of tea or coffee, rolls with jam and butter.
- AB - American Breakfast or American Bullet. An analogue of a continental breakfast with the addition of various sausages and cold meats, cheeses and egg dishes.
- EB - English Breakfast. English breakfast, which includes butter, jam, tea, milk, fruit juice, scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs with ham or bacon, toast, coffee.
5. BB + - Bed and Breakfast +. Meals are carried out according to an extended scheme, while free soft drinks during breakfast are possible. Sometimes at the discretion of the hotel free drinking water is available, drinks from the devices.
6. HB - Half Board. With this service scheme, guests are offered food and drinks during breakfast and dinner. At the same time, lunch in the hotel restaurants is available upon reservation at an additional cost.
7. HB + - Half Board +. This type of food includes supplements, while in addition to breakfast and dinner, free local drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, are provided. Depending on the type of hotel, drinks may be free all day.
8. DNR - Dinner. This is a rare food category where only dinner is served for free. It can be on the menu or in the form of a buffet. With and without drinks.
9. BD - Brunch Dinner. With this type of food, breakfast smoothly goes into lunch without a break, and then sometimes into dinner. The restaurant is open all day. Drinks with food are free. Of alcoholic beverages, only beer or locally produced wine is present.
10. FB - Full Board. Meals are free, three meals a day, does not include drinks. It is possible to provide meals "à la carte" or as a "buffet".
11. FB + - Full Board + or EXTFB - Extended Full Board. This is a type of food when breakfast, lunch and dinner are served as a buffet. During meals, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are free. Additional meals are possible depending on the concept of the hotel.
12. All (AI) - All Inclusive. The famous "all inclusive". This is not only a full unlimited guesthouse with various drinks, with additional meals: lunch, afternoon snack, barbecue, snacks on the beach, nightly dinner. At the same time, all locally made drinks are free, there are no restrictions on the amount of food or on the amount of drink. In addition , the concept of the hotel with the abbreviation All offers its guests a variety of services, entertainment, sports opportunities.
13. UAL - Ultra All Inclusive. Expanded all-inclusive service. If this type of food and service is indicated on the tour, then the hotel, in addition to local drinks, serves imported drinks for free. At UAL, natural juices, chocolate, ice cream are included in the free service. There are some varieties of ultra all-inclusive:
- HCAL - Imperial High Class All Inclusive. This variety implies a complete free service, except for shops, a doctor, a hairdresser and scuba diving.
- CP - Club Pharaoh. A distinctive feature from the usual UAL are some services: a free massage, champagne and fruits in the room, and constant refreshment of drinks in the refrigerator.
- UAL I Wish. In addition to the unlimited possibilities of free food and services is the possibility of unlimited use of imported exclusive drinks, the use of a jacuzzi, sauna, Turkish bath.
These are the different categories of food in hotels. It is worth saying that most of the resort holiday destinations in Turkey have long switched to the concept of "all inclusive" and "ultra all inclusive." Other categories of food in hotels in the country are extremely rare.