as in hostels
a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests
for their 50th anniversary they stayed at one of the finest hotels in San Francisco
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Recent Examples of hotels
Asset-light new entrants like On The Beach, offering the protections of traditional package holiday providers while not owning any hotels or aircraft, have become big players.
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Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
The ornate Cathedral on North Bayside Drive just north of the Venetian Causeway, stands out in a sea of cookie cutter hotels and condo buildings.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Many of our favorite places to buy bedding—including Italian luxury brands Frette and Sferra—even create custom bed linens like these for the best hotels around the world.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2025
Efforts to end the nearly two-year-long war and free remaining Israeli hostages were thrown into jeopardy after Israel's attack on Qatar, which had hosted Israeli negotiators in hotels in Doha and would shuffle between floors carrying messages between them and the Hamas leaders in exile.
—Aya Batrawy, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
This works because the real cost of business travel isn’t just flights and hotels but time.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
With hotels offering fewer amenities and fewer jobs, visitors will go elsewhere.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
The governor suggests this is needed because all the immigrants who were staffing hotels, building homes and picking crops are packing up and leaving.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
The state’s Community Investment Fund earlier this year endorsed spending $10 million to prepare most of the 86-acre mall site for a new complex of two hotels, 450 apartments, 165,000 square feet of new anchor retail spaces and up to 9 acres of restaurants and smaller shops and service businesses.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2025
Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
The ornate Cathedral on North Bayside Drive just north of the Venetian Causeway, stands out in a sea of cookie cutter hotels and condo buildings.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Many of our favorite places to buy bedding—including Italian luxury brands Frette and Sferra—even create custom bed linens like these for the best hotels around the world.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2025
Efforts to end the nearly two-year-long war and free remaining Israeli hostages were thrown into jeopardy after Israel's attack on Qatar, which had hosted Israeli negotiators in hotels in Doha and would shuffle between floors carrying messages between them and the Hamas leaders in exile.
—Aya Batrawy, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
This works because the real cost of business travel isn’t just flights and hotels but time.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
With hotels offering fewer amenities and fewer jobs, visitors will go elsewhere.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
The governor suggests this is needed because all the immigrants who were staffing hotels, building homes and picking crops are packing up and leaving.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
The state’s Community Investment Fund earlier this year endorsed spending $10 million to prepare most of the 86-acre mall site for a new complex of two hotels, 450 apartments, 165,000 square feet of new anchor retail spaces and up to 9 acres of restaurants and smaller shops and service businesses.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hotels
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Trubetter Foldable Travel Hangers Many standard hotel room closets contain at least one or two hangers, but other types of lodging—like Airbnb, boutique hotels, and hostels—may not have any at all.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 2025
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The a&o hostels welcome a significant number of business travelers each year and offer amenities tailored specifically to their needs.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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From Bavarian caves to Bohemian beer halls, from Milwaukee taverns to Oktoberfest tents, lagers have always been tied to the vessels they’re served in.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Yamahiro, who also presided over that case, dismissed the lawsuit against the taverns on July 22, online court records show.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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And our best times at motels were spent swimming in the dark in the motel pool.—
Anne Carson,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Hotels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotels. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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