The cost to monthly boarders is, I
believe, not more than the half of this.
Ten shillings a day,
therefore, covers everything that is absolutely necessary, servants
included; and this must be said in praise of these inns - that the
traveler can compute his expenses accurately, and can absolutely
bring them within that daily sum of ten shillings. This includes a
great deal of eating, a great deal of attendance, the use of
reading-room and smoking-room - which, however, always seem to be
open to the public as well as to the guests - and a bed-room, with
accommodation which is at any rate as good as the average
accommodation of hotels in Europe. In the large Eastern towns baths
are attached to many of the rooms. I always carry my own, and have
never failed in getting water. It must be acknowledged that the
price is very cheap. It is so cheap that I believe it affords, as a
rule, no profit whatsoever. The profit is made upon extra charges,
and they are higher than in any other country that I have visited.
They are so high that I consider traveling in America, for an
Englishman with his wife or family, to be more expensive than
traveling in any part of Europe. First in the list of extras comes
that matter of the sitting-room, and by that for a man and his wife
the whole first expense is at once doubled.
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