Children's hotel
A children's hotel is an accommodation company that specializes in the target group “families with children”. This type of hotel has developed in recent years on the tourism market in contrast to hotels that describe themselves as child- or family-friendly, but do not offer any corresponding services. In addition to the usual standard hotel services, they are characterized by a particularly child-friendly environment, facilities and atmosphere.
For travelers without children, the designation children's hotel indicates that there are children in the house and that there may be noise pollution from children screaming or disturbances from raging children.
Typical for a children's hotel are, for example, socket protection, car-free play areas, door locks in security-sensitive areas. Everything the family needs for the care and well-being of the toddler or infant is provided in the hotel free of charge or can be borrowed. Coloring sets and pens are available for the children in the restaurant and shorten possible waiting times for food. Extra meals or a separate children's buffet are offered. For the entertainment of the children there is ideally not only a playground at the house, but also a spacious play room for games regardless of the weather. As a rule, children's hotels have their own hotel kindergarten or a supervised children's leisure club.
Although there are different groups in Europe with a common concept and uniform quality criteria, the term “children's hotel” is not a protected term.
An external rating system for child and family-friendly hotels (and other facilities) was introduced by the German Child Protection Association in cooperation with TÜV Nord in 2002 and an independent catalog of requirements was created. Hotels and other facilities for children that meet the high standards are certified with the “TÜV Service Check - OK for Kids” seal of approval.
Hotels in which children can spend their vacation without their parents being present represent a special type of children's hotel.
Similar facilities
The term “children's hotel” is also used by day-care centers that offer professional overnight childcare.
In the GDR , children's hotels were a form of childcare around the clock in some cities that supported parents " who were unable to look after their children for a short time due to exceptional situations ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Zimmermann: The industrial world of work in the GDR under the primacy of socialist ideology , dissertation, Ruhr University Bochum 2000, p. 354