I was asked to say a few words about the hotel opposite the railway station. Of course, I can’t really say anything about it as a hotel in itself. But it’s worth talking about the industry of such hotels. Especially since at least in the former USSR you can find a hotel near railway stations, and near the airport it’s almost a common practice. So it’s worth talking about such an industry.
Airport hotels: what are they for?
According to my maternal grandfather's recollections, these airport hotels were often used to distribute arriving guests when checking in. In modern times, he understood their role rather poorly. And yet, such hotels do have a purpose.
Of course, you can also stop at your own discretion. In the Aeroflot Bonus program, for example, you can get miles for a stay at the Novotel hotel at Aeroflot's base airport in the Moscow air hub - Sheremetyevo Airport. True, there is a downside to living in hotels near the airport - the air harbor is very noisy a priori, due to the active takeoffs and landings of aircraft, whose noise has been talked about by many! For this reason, prices at airport hotels can be quite low, due to the noise, and this is reflected in the prices of real estate in these areas - they can be lower there, all other things being equal, and even building restrictions may not help.
These hotels are much more important for air travelers. As you know, there is a rule that in case of flight delays, airlines are obliged to accommodate their passengers in hotels so that they can calmly wait for their flight if the flight delay for one reason or another has dragged on for a long time this is preceded by the distribution of drinks and food, and once I did live to drink. And also: very often pilots and stewards with stewardesses rest in such hotels between flights, so for them a hotel under the nose of the airport is very necessary.
But does an ordinary traveler need such hotels at airports, if we exclude flight delays? If you want a combination of cheerfulness from noise, good service and not the highest prices, then you can try. But we want to get relaxation from rest, because it is precisely this that gives us prosperity, and not cheerfulness from noise, and it can play a cruel joke on us.
Hotels near railway stations
I don't know about the global practice, but in Russia and neighboring countries there are quite a lot of hotels near railway stations. One of them was named in the comments to the same article - Marins Park in Yekaterinburg, earlier it was called "Sverdlovsk", and a small trolleybus terminus for trolleybuses from the south and southwest of the city had the same name. And in the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow there was once a hotel created right on the basis of a compartment car, which, however, did not last long, because various of its accessories were often stolen.
So, what is good about hotels near train stations? They are more often visible than airport hotels - this is due to the fact that train stations are more often than others located in prominent places on the former border of the city, becoming part of its center as it develops. The same train station in Yekaterinburg is located on Chelyuskintsev Street, pre-revolutionary Severnaya, along which the pre-revolutionary border of the city in the north passed.
Historically, railway stations are also powerful transport hubs in any city. Therefore, you can go from there to almost any place in the city, since all the key public transport routes are connected to the station, and, if possible, the metro (in Moscow, the Circle Line connects 7 out of 10 key railway stations in the city, and in fact, the most significant railway stations in the city, all Rizhsky and Savelovsky railway stations operate for the suburbs, and long-distance departures and on Rizhsky, yes, because of reconstruction, but I don’t remember, and Savelovsky has not been operating for long-distance departures since the end of the 1990s, plus the transit Vostochny railway station, but I didn’t see a sea of people there either).
Often, train stations are convenient for transit passengers who have a transfer at the station, which rarely happens, but for such people, the distance to the station is such that it is close, so that the stress is less. In addition, there are often situations when prices in hotels at train stations are lower than in hotels in the center!
There is one exotic plus in Moscow conditions. At the Losinoostrovskaya railway station on the Yaroslavl direction there is a historical and ethnographic theater, considered quite good and cozy. On the Yaroslavl direction there are also no transfers to the metro before the station , except for the transfer from the MCC Rostokino station. So you can take a commuter train to Losinoostrovskaya and then to the performance!…
True, the human traffic at the train stations is traditionally very high, for obvious reasons. The level of comfort and service may be lower than in other places, but it is worth looking at these levels here - there are all kinds of hotels. And the noise level, of course, will be higher at the airport, but the train station is also not so great. True, it is possible to make trains silent - technology can allow this. It is simpler here than in the airport area, where I have not heard about reducing noise from airplanes yet.
That's how things are in this area! Have you ever stopped at train stations and airports? What memories do you have of this?…
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