Hotel coverage organized by location: which district suits which kind of trip, walking and transit times to the places on your list, street noise, room size, breakfast, seasonal nightly rates and luggage storage on checkout day. For travelers who treat the address as a hotel's most important feature.
Where to stay in a city.
Federal and California rules bar hotels from advertising a nightly rate that leaves out mandatory resort, service, or convenience fees, changing what the total on a booking screen has to mean.
Hotel room categories have no international standard — the names grade rooms within one property, and the only reliable definitions are size in square meters, bed dimensions, and the floor plan.
The same word, breakfast, covers rice and miso in Tokyo, ful and eggs in Cairo, herring and rye in Helsinki — and knowing the local spread tells a traveler whether the included rate is worth taking.
At €10 to €25 per person per day, hotel breakfast is a priced option, not a gift — it pays off when the spread suits the traveler's morning, the alternatives are scarce, and the schedule starts early.
Hotels with a staffed desk hold bags before check-in and after check-out as a standard courtesy, usually free even for arriving guests — while apartments rarely offer anything at all.
A hotel room is normally held all night when booked with a card, but small properties, apartments, and reduced-desk hotels need confirmation — and the mechanics differ at each channel.