Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

 
4.
 
Two-star hotels 
Two stars means 
no-frills hotel
. In many countries, two 
stars means that your room may have its own bathroom 
and there's almost certainly a TV and perhaps a telephone 
in your room, but rooms are bare-bones and you're 
unlikely to want to spend any more time than strictly 
necessary inside. 
 
5.
 
One-star hotels 
You don't see many of these, and with reason. One-stars 
are not just no-frills, rooms are barely functional, shared 
bathrooms are somewhere down a corridor and the 
painted ladies from the all-hours karaoke bar next door 
dance the horizontal tango all night long in the room next 
to yours.

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