About hotel names
Vacation brochures hide in results like "Sunny Isle Hotel" and "Sublime Grotto Resort & Spa", while "Lord's Safari Motel" suggests somewhere the brochure flatters. The spa-suffixed forms suit luxury settings and murder mysteries among the wealthy, and the motels suit road novels and noir. Pick by how clean you want the lobby carpet to be.
How hotel names are built
Hotel names use two templates. A three-part form joins a mood word, a feature word and a lodging tail, as in Sunny Isle Hotel and Sublime Grotto Resort & Spa. A two-part form pairs a word with the lodging noun, giving Cozy Resort. The feature bank is large at 172 entries and the lodging tail bank holds 8.
Sunny Isle Hotel
Sunny (mood bank) + Isle (feature bank) + Hotel (lodging tail)
Sublime Grotto Resort & Spa
Sublime (mood bank) + Grotto (feature bank) + Resort & Spa (lodging tail)
Cozy Resort
Cozy (word bank) + Resort (lodging tail)
Naming notes
The 8-entry lodging tail (Hotel, Resort, Resort & Spa) sets the apparent tier, while the mood and feature words supply variety. The three-part form reads as a fuller name and the two-part form as a shorter one. Give a coast a Resort & Spa and a back road a plain Cozy Resort.
Questions about hotel names
- What are the two naming forms?
- A three-part form (mood word, feature, lodging tail) like Sunny Isle Hotel, and a two-part form (word plus lodging noun) like Cozy Resort.
- How is the tier set?
- By the 8-entry lodging tail: plain Hotel for a town inn, Resort & Spa for a destination, with the mood and feature words supplying variety.
- How do I vary a region's hotels?
- Give the coast a Resort & Spa and the back road a plain Cozy Resort so fuller and shorter names coexist.