Choosing the Best Hotel for whom ? For my stay ? If so for how many hours or for how many days ? Am I on a honeymoon, or on a holiday, or on a business trip? Because in each case the location of the hotel matters. If on a business trip, the expenses are paid by my organisation. So, within the prescribed limits I can select a hotel. If I am to Choose the Best Hotel on behalf of a Travel Agent, I have to be sure about who are going to be the occupants. Foreign tourists, Indian tourists or tourists on a package tour. All these factors are important and they determine the discounts I am to get from the hotel. Of course there is my commission for giving business to the concerned hotel or hotels.
The ITDC Hotels are a class apart. They are expensive no doubt, but offer good value for money. Then there are the Heritage Hotels. A new category of hotels is coming up - Hotels to encourage Eco-Tourism.
The Hotels of the Orissa Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) are quite good. They are named Pantha Nivas. The Puri Pantha Nivas and the one at Konarak are really good.
We should have inexpensive and clean hotels for the youth and the members of the Youth Hostels Association of India and International Youth Hostels Association, whose motto is International Goodwill. Wandering they gather honey. While in Germany, I was a member of the International Youth Hostels Association (IYHA) and saw quite a bit of Germany, particularly the Rhineland, with little expenditure.
We should have Motels also, to cater to the different economic groups. A Motel is a Motor-Hotel, where you can drive in, park your Motor Car and live in the Hotel. In USA, the Motels are very popular. David, my son-in-law says that the Motels are by Patels from Gujarat. Patels have business in their blood. In Australia and Papua New Guinea they are also very popular. The Smugglers’ Inn in Madang, Papua New Guinea, is a very good one, where I had lived, when my wife was under treatment in the local Hospital. We were in a very friendly Motel at Gold Coast in Australia. We had a kitchenette to ourselves with a mini fridge. We used to have tea and breakfast in the kitchenette. The Bali Hotel in Bali, Indonesia, is designed like a Motel.
Given the money, I would like to convert my building in my village, Kesole, near Cuttack (Orissa) into a Motel where typical Oriya cuisine would be served. Any idea from my NRI daughter who is an Architect ?