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  • noun Plural form of guesthouse.

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Examples

  • Last year, the ministry developed five tourism villages in the Borobudur area, with each receiving financial aid ranging from Rp 100 million to Rp 150 million ($10,800 to $16,200) to renovate tourist facilities such as guesthouses as well as handicraft and culinary centers.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • It just so happens that the terrorists stayed in these very kind of guesthouses and were coming and going at all hours (like us) and they kept adding new people into the rooms at all hours (like our group had been doing) and because of these factors, new rules were created for travelers to more easily track them and their whereabouts.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • When I do need to book online, I use Momondo for flights and Hostelbookers for guesthouses and hostels.

    Matt Kepnes: Becoming a Minimalist Traveler Matt Kepnes 2011

  • "By supporting private ventures such as small guesthouses, as well as a fair degree of exposure to the Burmese people, such tourism could indeed contribute to the development of a population which might be able to provide stronger checks and balances to the policies of the government," Zalewski said.

    Myanmar Hopes To Increase Foreign Tourism With Prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi's Release AP 2011

  • When I do need to book online, I use Momondo for flights and Hostelbookers for guesthouses and hostels.

    Matt Kepnes: Becoming a Minimalist Traveler Matt Kepnes 2011

  • Antiques dealer and interior designer Billy Cross has a handful of refined but cosy guesthouses in Barcelona, Istanbul and Mexico, and adds a personal touch to each.

    10 of the best pensiónes in Barcelona 2011

  • "By supporting private ventures such as small guesthouses, as well as a fair degree of exposure to the Burmese people, such tourism could indeed contribute to the development of a population which might be able to provide stronger checks and balances to the policies of the government," Zalewski said.

    Myanmar Hopes To Increase Foreign Tourism With Prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi's Release AP 2011

  • There are several guesthouses that put you in the middle of the Old Town, and two ultra-luxe hotels: La Residence Phou Vao, a sprawling French colonial mansion with lush gardens of frangipani and palm trees, and the recently opened and rather magnificent Amantaka, a former French hospital.

    The Mekong's Last Undiscovered City Kevin Sintumuang 2011

  • The Taliban struck the same area a year ago, raiding two guesthouses inhabited by Indian and Western expatriates, and gunning down some of their guests.

    Taliban Suicide Bomber Strikes Kabul Mall Matthew Rosenberg 2011

  • Feroz Ali Abbasi, a British militant of Ugandan descent who was eager to conduct terrorist operations against Jews and Americans, remembered “this information being commonly known amongst everybody in the training camps and guesthouses.”

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

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