Name: Real English for staying at a HOTEL
Uploaded: 2017-10-30T08:24:10.000Z
Duration: 15 min 31 s
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In today's video I'm going to walk you through your stay at a hotel in an English-speaking country.

You need to know some vocabulary, you need to know some of the staff you're going to

be dealing with, some of the services and amenities, and all of that stuff.

So it's a lot of vocabulary, but a lot of things that you probably need to know before

So, the first thing we're going to look at is the staff.

So, first of all, in some of the more fancy hotels, the more up...

high-scale hotels, you're going to have a "doorman".

He or she, mostly he, will open and close the door for you, that's why: doorman.

Now, I know you're not supposed to say "man", you're supposed to say "doorperson", but in

hotels I don't think anybody really cares; we still say "doorman" because mostly it's

Now, if you drove there, there might be a "valet".

A "valet" is a person who will take your car and park it for you.

You give him or her the keys, they drive away, park your car.

When you're ready to leave, they bring your car to the front of the hotel, you get in,

There's also the "housekeeping" or the "maid".

"Housekeeping" is the same thing as "maid".

These days "housekeeping" is a little bit more common than "maid", but they clean your

The porter will probably be standing outside in front of the hotel.

When you pull up in your taxi or your car, he will come, take your bags inside to the

And this person is also like a little bit of a man Friday we call it.

He will run around and get things done for you if you need.

If you need tickets, he'll go pick them up.

If you need some chores run, he'll take your coat to the laundry, all these things.

So basically he's a person who runs around doing tasks for the guests.

A "bellhop" will take your luggage from the reception to your room.

So you don't have to carry your own bags; that's what the bellhop does.

Takes your bags, when you're ready to leave he will come to your room, take your bags

So, the concierge is the person who works in a hotel, and this is the person you go

to if you need to arrange outings outside the hotel.

If you want a restaurant reservation, if you want tickets to the theatre, sports games,

anything you want to do outside the hotel, this person will probably help you organize

these things, like tours, he or she or the area will have brochures and information about

all the sites in the area, all the tourist attractions, etc.

The "g" sounds like the "s" in "measure".

And again, in high-scale hotels, they do a bit more services for you, but most hotels

Now, when you walk into the hotel you will go to the "front desk" or you will go to the

"reception" or you will go to the "check-in desk", all the same thing.

All of them are located in the lobby of the hotel.

So the entrance, the main area of the front of the hotel, you just go to the front desk, you check in.

You go to the check-in desk, you go to the reception, all the same thing.

Now, if you're in your room and you don't want the maid to come and clean up, don't

forget to put that "Do Not Disturb" tag on your door.

It's a piece of paper, you put it outside your door, housekeeping will not disturb you.

Now, basically hotel has "rooms" and "suites".

Most hotels like to call their rooms suites, but if you want to get a little bit more technical,

It's not a full-size kitchen, it's not fully equipped.

Probably no big stove or dishwasher, things like that, but enough that you can make small

You have very expensive suites for VIPs, you have like a president's...

Presidential suite, very huge, very expensive, depends on the hotel you go to.

Otherwise, room/suite, mostly the same thing.

You can get "adjoining rooms", so if you're with your family but you want to be separate,

you have teenage kids, you get a room for them and a room for yourself - you and your

husband, you and your wife, but you have a door between the two rooms that joins them.

So you can go into their room, they can come into your room without going in the hallway.

"Adjoining" means next to each other and joining, you can go through them.

Now, all of these things, most of these things are generally available at hotels.

These places are not hotels and they don't necessarily have all of these things.

A "hostel" is basically a bed, a place to sleep at night.

It's very cheap, very no frills we call it.

So if you think about, like, a carpet or a lamp, you know, the little strings that hang

A hostel, you get a bed, you get a bathroom - that's it; nothing else, but very cheap.

There's still going to be a front desk where you check in, there's still going to be housekeeping,

but you won't have any of these services.

The concierge will be a rack on the wall with brochures that you can just go pick up, that's

Mostly you see these along highways where people are driving, they need to take a rest,

they stop for the night, they sleep, they leave in the morning, they move on.