What were hotels like in the 1800s?
Generally speaking, the rooms were small compared to what we're used to today, and the walls were thin. The average hotel might provide some wall hooks to hang your clothes and a porcelain basin and washstand for personal grooming. Most had a community privy out back and chamber pots in the rooms.
In the early 1800s, “Inns” were the only lodging facility available for the tourists. A lot of Inns were established prior 19th century. But, lodging was not just about bedding and resting facility anymore. They started providing food and drinks to the travelers.
In the nineteenth century, hotels take over the town -The industrial revolution, which started in the 1760s, facilitated the construction of hotels everywhere, in mainland Europe, in England and in America. In New York first of all, and then in Copenhagen, hotels were established in city centres.
While hotels like this were clearly for wealthier visitors, a wide range of accommodation was available for those with more modest budgets – from hotels to boarding houses. Some visitors, particularly from the working classes, sometimes only visited the seaside for a day.
"Common lodging-house" is a Victorian era term for a form of cheap accommodation in which inhabitants are lodged together in one or more rooms in common with the rest of the lodgers, who are not members of one family, whether for eating or sleeping.
Saloons, pubs and hotels played a major role in shaping the West. While saloons generally weren't the largest buildings in a town, they were the most frequented establishments.
The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a Japanese resort not far from Mount Fuji, has been in business since 705 A.D. The hotel has been passed down within the same family for 52 generations. Guinness World Records has officially recognized it as the oldest continuously running hotel in the world.
The term "inn" historically characterized a rural hotel which provided lodging, food and refreshments, and accommodations for travelers' horses.
One of the first hotels in a modern sense was opened in Exeter in 1768. Hotels proliferated throughout Western Europe and North America in the early 19th century, and luxury hotels began to spring up in the later part of the 19th century. Hotel operations vary in size, function, complexity, and cost.
Frontier hotels varied from flea- and bedbug-infested lodgings to extravagant abodes. Generally speaking, the rooms were small compared to what we're used to today, and the walls were thin. The average hotel might provide some wall hooks to hang your clothes and a porcelain basin and washstand for personal grooming.
