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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Mini-hotels – Mini-homes in Saint-petersburg


Saint-Petersburg is one of the most attended cities of Europe. Every year more than three millions of Russian and foreign tourists come to our city. High demand on accommodation in Saint-Petersburg hotels create beneficial terms for investments in hotel business.

North Venice is ready to offer its guests different kinds of accommodation according to their personal tastes and likes. A demand for cozy, comfortable and convenient numbers is as big as never before. That has become the reason of mini-hotels appearing in Saint-Petersburg.

Mini-hotels appeared in Saint-Petersburg in the beginning of nineties. By the beginning of XXI century there was nearly two tens of mini-hotels in North Venice. Our city was preparing to celebrate its three-hundredth anniversary and raised the question of building and reconstruction of existing hotels. That became the reason of much faster mini-hotels appearing and development.

Our city offers nearly three hundred mini-hotels of different class and standard – business and economy class, family mini-hotels Like Home standard, exclusive mini-hotels, which level of comfort ability exceeds even 5-star hotels.

Mini-hotels are spread all around the city, but the main part of them is situated in the center of Saint-Petersburg. It is connected with closeness to main sights of the city. Living in the center, guests can fully enjoy and feel romantic and beautiful atmosphere of Saint-Petersburg.

Mini-hotel main differ from an ordinary hotel is in quantity of numbers. Number fund of mini-hotel doesn’t usually exceed 30 numbers. Prices for accommodation depend on the level of the hotel and quality of its services. Usually prices vary from 500 – 4000 rubles for twenty-four hours, including breakfast. As a rule mini-hotels accommodate from 10-40 guests (depends on the number fund of the hotel).

Level of mini-hotels comfort in Saint-Petersburg is equal to big hotels. Numbers contain all necessary: shower, lavatory, TV, telephone. High – class mini-hotels contain also conditioner, refrigerator, safe, mini-bar and free access to the Internet. Usually there is a lump sum kitchen, where breakfast is prepared. There are some services for extra-pay in mini-hotels – from laundry to transfer booking.

Mini-hotels differ from each other with their design. Usually their interior is very house-like to make guests feel like at home on a new place. But there are some mini-hotels made in original style, retro or Victorian style for example.

System of mini-hotels number-booking is very simple. You can book a number through telephone or by sending a book request through Internet.

To sum up, we can pick out several advantages of mini-hotels, such as small size, calm habitation, good disposition, comfortable booking system, cozy and comfortable numbers and not high prices. All this makes mini-hotels a worthy competitor to other accommodation facilities.

By : Maria Moshkina

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