A Clean Bed-Room, With A Good And Clean Bed, And With It
Also Plenty Of Water.
Good food, well dressed and served at
convenient hours, which hours should on occasions be allowed to
stretch themselves.
Wines that shall be drinkable. Quick
attendance. Bills that shall not be absolutely extortionate,
smiling faces, and an absence of foul smells. There are many who
desire more than this - who expect exquisite cookery, choice wines,
subservient domestics, distinguished consideration, and the
strictest economy; but they are uneducated travelers, who are going
through the apprenticeship of their hotel lives; who may probably
never become free of the travelers' guild, or learn to distinguish
that which they may fairly hope to attain from that which they can
never accomplish.
Taking them as a whole, I think that the Swiss hotels are the best.
They are perhaps a little close in the matter of cold water, but
even as to this they generally give way to pressure. The pressure,
however, must not be violent, but gentle rather, and well continued.
Their bed-rooms are excellent. Their cookery is good, and to the
outward senses is cleanly. The people are civil. The whole work of
the house is carried on upon fixed rules which tend to the comfort
of the establishment. They are not cheap, and not always quite
honest. But the exorbitance or dishonesty of their charges rarely
exceeds a certain reasonable scale, and hardly ever demands the
bitter misery of a remonstrance.
The inns of the Tyrol are, I think, the cheapest I have known -
affording the traveler what he requires for half the price, or less
than half demanded in Switzerland.
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