Lodging

For other uses, see Lodging (disambiguation).

Hotel Carlton in Bratislava, Slovakia.

A campsite at Hunting Island State Park in South Carolina

Dorm room from a hostel in Budapest, Hungary

Lodging or a holiday accommodation is a type of residential accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging for sleep, rest, food, safety, shelter from cold temperatures or rain, storage of luggage and access to common household functions.

Lodging is done in a hotel, motel, hostel, inn or hostal, a private home (commercial, i.e. a bed and breakfast, a guest house, a vacation rental, or non-commercially, with members of hospitality services or in the home of friends), in a tent, caravan/camper (often on a campsite). Lodgings may be self-catering, in which case no food is provided, but cooking facilities are available.

A lodger can also refer to someone who, on a long term basis, rents a room from a home owner or sublets the room from a tenant and is not on the tenancy agreement.

See also

• Backpacking
• Boarding house
• Homelessness
• Homestay
• Hospitality industry
• Hostel
• Hostelling International
• House in multiple occupation
• List of human habitation forms
• Public space
• Single room occupancy
• Sleeping in public transport
• Tourism

External links

• Travel accommodation travel guide from Wikivoyage
• The dictionary definition of lodging at Wiktionary