3 Stars Hotels (Middle Class Hotel)
The Hotel lbis Melbourne is a 3 stars hotel located close to Queen Victoria Markets, it offers clean and comfortable rooms with individual air conditioning, television, modem line, in-house movies, and refrigerator and tea/coffee facilities. Hotel facilities include a cocktail bar, a cater restaurant, guest laundry, dry cleaning and 24 hours reception.
4 stars hotels (First Class Hotel)
Rydges Melbourne is a 4 stars hotel located in the CBD it offers a charming, modern and warm rooms with individual reverse-cycle air conditioning, television, modem line, in-house movies, refrigerator and tea/coffee, mini bar and video facilities. Hotel facilities include a CBD Café Bar Restaurant, entertainment lounge, 24 hours reception and room service, express checkout, conference facilities, rooftop heated pool, dry cleaning and valet services. Hotel facilities include 24hr room service, business centre, 2 rebound ace tennis courts and spa comprising 25m heated indoor pool and gymnasium.
5 stars hotels (Luxury Hotel)
The Crown Towers is a 5 stars hotel located at Crown Entertainment Complex offers a luxurious and oversized room with spectacular views, separate dressing room, 2 televisions, Sony playstation, fax machine, individual air conditioning, mini bar, refrigerator, cable television and marble lined bathroom with spa.
Conclusion
I have done a thorough research from two and a half stars to five stars hotel, however, I found that the classification between different stars hotels have change a lot during the past years. The following are my findings.
The rooms between 2 stars and 5 stars hotels are quite different in areas such as size, décor and the view. Also, bathroom size of a 2 stars hotel is usually a standard size whereas in a 5 stars hotel, usually it would have plenty of spaces and the luxurious décor. Also, another major aspect would be the overall of the hotel building. In 5 stars hotel, furniture used, tiles and facilities are more high class where as lower class hotels use less expensive materials in overall. The hotel facilities are different as well, the higher rating hotels will have more and special facilities such as sauna, indoor swimming pool, express checkout, spa and 24 hr foreign exchange currency desk, etc.
In the past, 2 and 3 stars hotels only have day reception but 4 and 5 stars hotels have 24 hrs receptions, even though 5 stars hotels have 24 hrs room services as well. However, after I did the research I found that the 24 hrs receptions is very common in 2 and 3 stars hotel as well and 24 hrs room services is available with 3 and 4 stars hotels too.
The room facilities has also improve a lot as well, for example telephone, television, refrigerator, etc is not just in 3 to 5 stars hotel, but it is also a different between those 2 to 5 stars hotels e.g. 3 to 5 stars have in house movies or ever cable TV, I think to classifies the rating of the hotel can be by what kind of TV program that the hotel can provide.
So we can classify the rating of the hotel by the structure, décor, room style and size, standard of services, the special hotel facilities and the most significant is the price of the hotel, but hopefully, the standard of all the hotels will be becoming very high.
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