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Looking at accommodation options for DIY trips to Austria. Can anyone help me out with what the different accommodation types mean? I've found listings for:
1) Hotel
2) Gasthof
3) Pensionen
4) Hotel-Garni
5) Garni
6) Gasteheimer
And why so many?!
Ta.
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Dave.
Garni simply means (as far as I know) that the accommodation only has a breakfast room - not a restaurant.
I think a gasthof (guesthouse) or pension (basic hotel) might serve evening meals.
Can't help with gasteheimer - that's new to me.
You're right - these terms can be confusing!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Dave,
1) Hotel is a hotel
2) Gastof is a guesthouse
3) Pension has only rooms maybe with breakfast, but no restaurant
4) Hotel-Garni see below
5) Garni-Hotel I've been told by my colleagues that this a hotel syndicate or franchise as Garni Hotels are a group of hotels.
6) Gasteheimer I think this is similar to a guest house although I have never heard of it before. A heim is a building or home for orphans 
Hope this helps
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Dave
Hotel Garni is a bed and breakfast hotel - no restaurant for an evening meal.
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Gasteheimer - following on from Dicko, perhaps a hostel??
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Dicko, yeah, Heim means a home like for old people, orphans, etc. In fact here:
http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&relink=on§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&search=heim
it's translated as asylum!
My guess is they were trying to say guesthouse (Gast = guest) and got it a bit wrong...
A hostel's a Herberge or a Jugendherberge for youth hostel. Unless we're talking about a hostel for tramps and the like which again brings us back to Heim...
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Dave
Hotel Garni is a bed and breakfast hotel - no restaurant for an evening meal. |
I stayed in a garni in the Dolomites (Arabba) - I was B&B, but it did have a restaurant serving evening meals to some of the guests. Is an Italian garni therefore different to an Austrian one?
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Dave Burt, we are staying in a 'Ferienhotel' in Ellmau on 11th March. From my scratchy 'O' level german that means a 'holiday hotel'...
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tessaventer,
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ferienwhonug is a holiday flat and a ferienhaus is a holiday home. Never heard of a ferienhotel neither have any of the locals I work with. Even asked a guy from Salzburg and he had no idea. Is it a German term perhaps?
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The view of the Austrians here is that "Gasteheimer" is a very old fashioned word. Probably translates best into Guest home as "Heim" = "home"
In reality it means the same as pension.
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You know it makes sense.
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Possibly a word used by pensioners, then
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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DB
Yeah that would explain how everyone I asked didn't know what it meant. Maybe I should have asked my boss he is 50+
What about the ferienhotel have they heard of this?
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Dicko wrote: |
DB
Yeah that would explain how everyone I asked didn't know what it meant. Maybe I should have asked my boss he is 50+
What about the ferienhotel have they heard of this? |
I've seen "Ferienhotel" somewhere before, to me and my workmates it means "holiday hotel" not specifically apartments (The ones I found after a quick google search weren't specifically apartments.) but a hotel specifically for holiday makers as opposed to business users. If you do a search on the interenet there isn't much difference between them and a normal hotel except they seem to offer more activities for holiday makers.
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Yeah thats what the direct translation is, but its a little ambiguous to what class of hotel it is...if any. I am wondering if these terms are more commonly used in Germany?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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There are Garni Hotels that offer halbpension
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... except that I don't think it has any apartments, we're certainly staying in a hotel room 
