Depending on the level of the hotel’s facilities, the cost of staying overnight varies, and luxurious places cost hundreds of thousands of won per day and usually tens of thousands to 100,000 won for hotels. In some cases, the highest-end rooms where heads of state or chaebols stay may cost tens of millions of won a day. Luxurious places are almost royal-level, with not only essential facilities needed for hotels, but also a breathtaking view, and a banquet room in the room.
The etymology originated from hospitalale, which means accommodation for travelers, and later transformed into a place to treat the sick and transformed into hospital → hostel → hotel. Therefore, the etymology is the same as that of a hospital. In French, not English, because of this etymology, “httel” means “mansion” and “government house” in addition to the meaning of accommodation. So, when translated into English, httel deville becomes ‘city hall’, not ‘hotel of city’. For this reason, a British tourist who misunderstood City Hall as a hotel during a trip to France and spent the night on the news.