Facilities

The most expensive hotels have all the amenities you would expect at top levels and rates, with a full range of services, spacious lounges, bars, restaurants, and some fitness facilities. Midrange hotels may have refrigerators, in-room safes, and double-glazed windows to keep out street noise. Budget hotels will have in-room direct-dial telephones and TVs, and most will have air-conditioning. In less expensive places, you may have to pay extra for air-conditioning, and the shower may be the drain-in-the-floor type that hovers over the toilet and drenches the whole bathroom.

Unless stated in the review, hotels are equipped with elevators, and all guest rooms have air-conditioning, TVs, and telephones.