UCityGuides.com - U_Star Hotels
Many travelers no longer look for or even care about the star ratings given to hotels. It doesn’t matter if they were given a 3, a 4, or a 5-star classification because all they want is a reasonably-priced place offering a good service and ideally some character and style for a memorable stay. Meeting this demand for cool places at cool prices, the world’s major cities are now being invaded by hip hotels featuring cutting-edge modern design or an elegant classic-meets-
Today’s travelers also don’t simply want a bed to lie on, and their hotel is as much an attraction as any sightseeing tour. You’ll find that many cities’ most happening bars and restaurants are located inside hotels, making them destinations in themselves. As the UCityGuides.com website was putting together its “ultimate urban guides” to the world’s top cultural cities, it realized that many of the typical 5-star hotels were quite unexciting places catering mostly to business travelers with conference rooms and meeting facilities, and with very little character or any particularly special services. Many more memorable stays of the type that you tell your friends about, were actually found at many of the 4 and even 3-star hotels.
For that reason, the website has come up with its own hotel ratings system, awarding 1, 2, and 3 stars to the coolest hotels in the world’s coolest cities. Many of the internationally-
The evaluation took into account each hotel’s service, décor, and above all, character and distinctiveness, and awarded one star to those places standing out in their category or prices range, two stars for offering exceptional services usually not found at most other hotels, and the maximum three stars to those hotels that are destinations in themselves by offering a complete service and extras for an exceptional stay.
You’ll also find that simply having some interesting modern design in every corner is not enough for a hotel to merit any distinction. Some of those design hotels place design before function, and often don’t match their style with quality service or offer any extras. That means that the hotels awarded with U_Stars are places you’ll want to experience, as they add to a memorable visit to the world’s must-see cities.
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U_Star Hotels: http://www.ucityguides.com/
The Best Design, Boutique, or Luxury Hotels: http://www.ucityguides.com/
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