private hotel

British  

noun

1. a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance

2. a hotel not having a licence to sell alcoholic liquor

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Example Sentences

Plans to use a barge to house asylum seekers were announced as a way of cutting the government's £8m a day bill for private hotel accommodation.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2023

The alleged acts occurred in Butler’s training room, offices, buses and in Howell’s private hotel rooms during away games, the complaint said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

“What clients want and need, by and large, is a private hotel room.”

From The Verge • Jul. 1, 2022

A few months later, Balazs announced plans to convert the Chateau to a members-only private hotel, but so far that plan has not come to fruition.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2022

It had been at the private hotel that he had known Miss Mellitt.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill