Apartments CompanyThe Apartment vs. Hotel argument is becoming an increasingly important factor for holiday makers and professional business travellers. Why limit your accommodation search to cheap hotels when, for the same price or less, you can opt for the high quality and excellent value of the self-catering apartment alternative. Why endure the dull unimaginative, basic and uniform décor of a three-star hotel room when you could be enjoying a bright and spacious modern apartment, with a variety of inspirational and individual décor. Why pay for overpriced hotel restaurant meals. With the cooking facilities provided in serviced apartments, you have the additional option of eating inexpensively in your own apartment, whilst still always having the option to eat out. Due to your central location you will surely find a selection of popular and highly-acclaimed restaurants.
In the Business Travel sector, more companies are out-sourcing in many countries as business becomes more internationalised. They therefore require more medium to long-stay accommodation
solutions in major, and increasingly in secondary and tertiary European cities. Business travellers will recognise the benefit of having an apartment living area instead of a hotel room to hold informal meetings. There is also a significant difference between inviting a business associate to the lounge area of an apartment than inviting them back to your hotel room.
The traditional hotel solution, which usually consists of an endless row of small boxes with minor variations on four walls, a bathroom, cable TV and a mini-bar, is increasingly being abandoned by the business traveller for apartment-hotels and serviced apartments. The leisure traveller, families and small groups are also waking up to the fact that the apartment alternative, on a comparative basis, with its liveable space, location and price, wins almost every time. What both leisure and business travellers are demanding, and which the hotel market is unable to provide, is the individuality, room and flexibility of their own home, in addition to some of the service and comforts traditionally provided by a hotel. In response to the rise of the apartment alternative, the large monopoly hotel chains have had to respond in the market place by upgrading some of their rooms to apartments. Their attempt at creating an apartment is usually the addition of a small sink, microwave and hotplate in the corner of the hotel room. Erroneously, they consider the hotel room with the addition of this "kitchenette" constitutes an apartment. With most hotel chains, similarly to a very famous fast food chain, the very same homogenous product is packaged and presented, regardless of which continent or country it is located in. While the tiny in-room bar and TV may present security and may appeal to some, in Europe all cities are uniquely different and present an abundance of cultural finds, even for the moderately curious traveller. To really feel the mood and local atmosphere of a new city, a serviced apartment offers much more than the usual sterility and monotony of a hotel chain or large hotel. Most serviced apartments are locally owned and managed, and as a result offer a more intimate understanding of the immediate surroundings. Through this, we can share local knowledge of the area with you, including information on restaurants, stores, pubs and clubs, museums, tours, sports facilities and cultural events. |
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