The difference between a five-star hotel and an ordinary hotel is about 200 words.

Five-star and four-star have different standards in hardware and software. This hardware includes not only large public facilities such as swimming pools, but also details such as room area and decoration specifications. China's five-star evaluation standard is that more than 70% of rooms should not be less than 30 square meters. Some luxury hotels are directly modified to make one room, such as the White Swan, which has resumed business in Wang Fu Peninsula under renovation. Moreover, the bathroom must be dry and wet, and many four-star stars are congenitally deficient in this respect. Not to mention the disparity between the design cost and the construction cost per square meter (water heating, electricity, civil structure and hard and soft installation, excluding land cost).

These hardware differences will eventually affect the stay experience. Tens of thousands of beds (such as Swatch) and two thousand beds (some four-star in China) have not all psychological effects on sleep.

There are even smaller service examples. Generally, the standard of room service in five-star hotels is not less than 8 kinds of dishes, 4 kinds of drinks and sweets, and there will be less in four-star hotels. More importantly, hotels at different levels have great differences in staff recruitment, training and management. You can install a gopro in the bathroom, and quietly record the process of cleaning the room when the guests go out.

For high-end business travelers, executive lounge is a very important part of the experience. Novotel and Shangri-La lounge happy hour can't be the same level.

Staying in a hotel is really a value-for-money experience. Just sauce.