The goal is a happy combination that marries the ubiquity of (typically) unorganized local guesthouse-style rooms with the more organized and efficient (but pricier) hotel option.
The toilets at the guesthouse are western style.
Moana Guesthouse has cabana-style accommodation next to the beach.
A motel-style guesthouse, with small but pleasant rooms and a basement workout room with a Ping-Pong table.
In her seven-acre garden in Anacortes, which is open by appointment, I admired many of the well-behaved bamboos around the Japanese-style guesthouse.
The nine-room boutique hotel, which she opened in central Marseille in 2005, imagines a Marrakesh-style guesthouse inside a classic French town house.
DUSK was falling on Tangier and small cliques of nattily dressed expats were sipping mint tea and socializing on the top floor of the Hôtel Nord-Pinus, a sumptuous riad-style guesthouse in the Casbah.
Burr Vail, the proprietor of our Spanish-style guesthouse, the 15-room Hacienda Tamarindo near the town of Esperanza, said that the island started changing the moment the Navy pulled out.
Mrs. Romney and her husband, Mitt, even floated a loan — $250,000 to $500,000, according to financial records — to Mr. Ebeling and his wife for the horse farm they run in California, where the Romneys use a Mediterranean-style guesthouse as a getaway.
Open in summer only and reached either on foot or by 4WD taxi, Pension Briol (briol.it, half-board is €79.50pp pn, open 1 May-12 October) is a Bauhaus-style guesthouse in Italy's Alto Adige (or South Tyrol) with every detail designed by early 20th-century artist Hubert Lanzinger to an off-grid ethos.
On the deck of a small kâshta (tavern-style guesthouse) in the village, we listen to the falsetto howl of a jackal over a dinner of kebabs and Shumensko beers.
