Bed & Breakfast and other types of hosted accommodation are well established in Europe and North America as a way of travelling. It enables a “view” of the travellers’ world that is not available from big city hotels or even the larger country hotels and motels.
It is one of Australia’s fastest growing accommodation types and each property, almost by definition, is unique. There is none of the “sameness” you might expect with franchised Motel chains for example. Each has its own ambience, its own particular interest and point of attraction to guests and each offers its own unique “spin” on the locality in which it is situated.
A traditional “homestay” is a property where both hosts and their guests are accommodated in the same building or where Guests are accommodated external to that building. “Purpose built” or converted from a relatively large family home, homestay Bed & Breakfast accommodation generally provides up to three guest bedrooms. Increasingly bathrooms are ensuite, though some smaller well established properties with a very high standard and good reputation provide bathroom[s] that are shared with other guests, though not with hosts. The owner or operator lives on the premises, though generally in quarters separate or distinct from that of the guests.
