Part III. Younger – and young-in-heart – travellers may find one of London's newest hotels is ideal for them

Younger – and young-in-heart – travellers may find one of London's newest hotels is ideal for them. The Piccadilly Hotel, beside Piccadilly circus, is a backpacker's dream, with dormitory beds available at ₤12 per night, including breakfast and linen. There are twin and family rooms; a lounge with 100-channel TV and an internet suite. Fresh, smart and sunny, this hostel opened in early 2003 and already promises to be as popular as the longer established St.Christopher's Inns group with its flagship hostel on the south Bank, or The Generator. Bookable online with beds from ₤10 (₤23 for a twin room) and cooking facilities available as well as a café providing hot meals, The Generator is near the British Museum and is definitely a fun place to stay – its bar offering nightly entertainment.

The smaller hotel groups, such as Fullers Hotels (rooms available at weekends for ₤85) with their excellent pub-restaurants attached, bring a flavour of old London to their guests. They include the Chamberiain near Tower Bridge and the Sanctuary House near Westminster Abbey, with its ale-and-pie house on the ground floor. London has many small hotels, generally clustering around main rail termini such as Victoria or King's Cross. Some are family-run, most fully accredited to the London Tourist Board and so of good standard.

Questions:

1. What are the good-value options for accommodations in London?
2. Why is B&B so notable?
3. What is the price range for different hotels? What is the price for children under 7?
4. Which hotels are the cheapest and why?
5. What can smaller hotels and hotel groups offer to the tourists?
6. Summarize the text.
7. Restaurants

A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. The term covers a multiplicity of venues and a diversity of styles of cuisine.

Restaurants are sometimes a feature of a larger complex, typically a hotel, where the dining amenities are provided for the convenience of the residents and, of course, for the hotel to maximize their potential revenue. Such restaurants are often also open to non-residents.

The term “restaurant“ first appeared in the 19^th century, meaning “a food which restores“, and referred specially to a rich, highly flavoured soup. The 1^st restaurant in the form that became standard (customers sitting down with individual portions at individual tables, selecting food menus, during fixed opening hours) was the Grand Taverne de Londres, founded in 1782 a man named Beauvilliers.

Restaurants range from unpretentious lunching or dining places catering to people working nearby with simple food served in simple setting at low prices, to expensive establishments serving refined food and wines in a formal setting.

Questions:

1. What is a restaurant?

2. What does a term cover?

3. Why are restaurants established as part of hotels very often?

4. Where does the word “restaurant“ come from?

5. What are different types of restaurants?

6. Summarize the text.