Luxury hotels and resorts are all around the world offer for their guests not just guest rooms but suites as well. Not to mention about hotels that are offered suites only in their property. By the way, what hotel suites are? Are they just bigger than a normal guest room? Are suites in a five star hotel just more luxurious than a deluxe room? What is the real difference and why better to stay in a luxury hotel suite instead of a standard room? Now we share with you the most important facts about luxury hotel suites.
What is hotel suite?
Hotel suite is a specific type of an accommodation in Hotels and Resorts. Some luxury cruise lines also offer suites on their ships. Suites are not just offer more spaces than an ordinary guest room, but have at least two separate area. Nowadays these requirements for suites are mandatory. The size of a luxury hotel suite size should exceed 430 square feet and can goes up to 4000 square feet easily if we talking about a presidential suite. Suites have to look like an apartment, with a separate living space and bedroom with attached bathroom. Of course, most of the times, the suites have own dining area, separate workroom, more than one bedroom, fully equipped kitchen, walk-in wardrobe, big terraces and even more.
Are suites just bigger than a normal guest room?
Yes, and no. Sadly, lot of lower categorized hotels naming their bigger rooms as a suite, because they would like to offer a “luxurious accommodation” in their property, even they are not meet these requirements. Accordingly, in 4 star hotels and lower categorized hotels we can find a suites that are just bigger rooms. However, as we mentioned above, the much bigger size is just a mandatory requirement for suites. In addition, the hotel suite have to be at least two separate room. Moreover, in a luxury hotel, suites are usually offers fantastic and different kind of views to the surroundings, terraces and wide range of extra services from limo transfer to bespoke butler services and go on.
photo ©: Four Seasons: Park Lane, London
Type of hotel suites
There are many types available if you would like to choose a hotel suite instead of a hotel room. We created a detailed article about types of luxury hotel suites, however here we can write down the most popular ones:
- Deluxe Suites
- Executive Suites
- Penthouse Suites
- Theme / Hotel named Suites
- Presidential / Royal Suites
These suite types are all different in size, exclusivity of materials used, views, etc…
Luxury hotel suite – feel the difference in the services as well
In a 5 star luxury hotel you access for a wide variety of services. However, there are few very specific services, which are available only if you book a luxury suite. These exclusive services designed for people, who want to enjoy the highest level of hospitality.
Butler service is the one of the well-known exclusive service that available if you book some type of luxury hotel suite. The 0-24 hours of Butler service is take care of your wishes no matter how great or small it is.
Featured image photo ©: Hotel Principe di Savoia