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What is a Boutique Hotel?

What is a boutique hotel? Since the 1980’s they’ve been growing in popularity in many of the major tourist cities around the globe. They are intimate hotels that have a tendency to be themed or have quirks geared at certain clientele. Often known as “lifestyle” or “design” hotels they are generally smaller than the mainstream hotel chains; often having from three to, depending on the location, as many as fifty rooms.

While you know for sure what amenities are going to be available at a chain hotel you should do your research when hunting for a boutique hotel. Some boutique hotels aren’t much more than bed and breakfasts while others are experimental offshoots of larger hotel chains . A majority have on site dining, lounges, or bars for patrons to mingle in or that are open to the general public. Some are rustic having only the bare necessities for your stay while others are complete with wi-fi, cable TV and other modern conveniences.

Different cities have different clienteles the boutique hotels cater to. New York was the birth place of the American boutique hotel movement with many hotels catering to various themes from historical to modern or futuristic. In New Orleans a boutique hotel may focus on anything from the antebellum French Quarter or Mardi Gras to a hotel geared at the thousands of fans that flock to New Orleans to see the streets roamed by Anne Rice’s vampires. The boutique Miami hotels tend to cater to the Art Deco feel of the city and Caribbean weather, these are almost always located along Ocean Drive or other ocean-side streets. No matter the city you go to you can easily find a boutique hotel that’s perfect for you, you just have to know where to look.

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