A boarding house is a great alternative to an expensive hotel and hotel. It is no secret to anyone that rest in the resort area is always fraught with significant financial costs. The most expensive feature of any resort is the cost of housing. The search for a more suitable option for the price has been going on for a very long time, and pensions often go unnoticed in long lists of hotels.
The unpopularity of such institutions is due to several reasons. Firstly, most of the young and solvent population simply do not know what a boarding house is. Secondly, the age of such spa facilities is already ending. They are being replaced by hostels and modern inexpensive hotel complexes consisting of bungalows.
Pension - not a sanatorium
This is due to the fact that most often people have a false opinion about boarding houses. Someone thinks that these are institutions for the rest of government officials, while others imagine a sanatorium-type medical treatment institution. None of these opinions are true.
A boarding house is a guest house equipped with all the necessary equipment for entertainment. In the boarding houses in advance full nutrition and even a cultural and leisure program are provided. Pensions are located in picturesque places, most often in park areas or on the seashore. There are no medical and preventive procedures in boarding houses, although they can be included in the price. This is always negotiated with each client personally, as these are additional services not on the profile of the institution. Often there are unpleasant incidents with guests who do not understand what a boarding house is, and require a full sanatorium service.
Basic healthy options include only the right diet from a professional nutritionist. Based on his testimony, an individual menu is compiled, which certainly will not be superfluous. The internal regime of boarding houses cannot be called strict. It will be more true to say that there is no regime there.
The profile specialization of each boarding house is recreation and the provision of entertainment services to guests. A boarding house is not a sanatorium. Similar institutions are common in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries of the former Soviet Union. In all other states, such a form of resort services is extremely rare, because it is recognized as unprofitable.
Full board
Full board is an integral part of almost every guesthouse. Roughly speaking, this is three meals a day on a personal diet. However, in reality it is much more than just nutrition.
It is generally accepted that only full-board meals are better than full board. The guesthouse includes not only breakfast, lunch and dinner, but also tea drinking, a free minibar in the room, freshly squeezed juices every morning and even dessert snacks. The boarding house does not always observe this, limiting itself only to providing three meals a day.
Hotels
Unscrupulous owners on booking services indicate instead of the term “hotel” - “boarding house”. This is completely unacceptable. The fact is that the boarding house, although it differs from the sanatorium, nevertheless, rest in it carries healing functions. Hotels simply provide accommodation and are not necessarily located in the resort area. Pensions are always well located.
An even bigger problem is that in hotels food is not provided for in a standard contract. Any food, even basic, always acts as an additional paid option. In addition, any guesthouse has a developed infrastructure, which can rarely be said about hotels.
Pension infrastructure
The very definition of "boarding house" means a tourist and health resort complex that provides a full range of various services within its profile. In this regard, all the boarding houses were built on a grand scale.
On the territory of almost any pension there is a private dining room, shops, gyms, a swimming pool, cinemas, kitchens, travel agencies, museums and much more. Also on the territory of such institutions there are often huge park areas and objects of architectural heritage. The boarding houses themselves can also be an architectural heritage.