Meet the Landlady The
provision of holiday accommodation rapidly became big business at the
main seaside resorts. In the beginning, the mainly high class visitors
generally rented whole houses, usually for long lets, catering for themselves
and bringing their own servants with them. By the end of the 18th century
and throughout the 19th, apartments were gaining in popularity. Visitors
rented a suite of rooms, bought their own food locally and the resident
landlady and her servants would do the cooking and cleaning.
As time progressed it became common, especially for the less well-off,
to rent just a single room or even to share a room. Full board with the
landlady doing the catering and cooking was an expensive alternative more
popular in some resorts than in others. Purpose-built luxury hotels providing
a variety of amenities did not appear to any great extent until mid-Victorian
times.
The
provision of holiday accommodation rapidly became big business at the
main seaside resorts. In the beginning, the mainly high class visitors
generally rented whole houses, usually for long lets, catering for themselves
and bringing their own servants with them. By the end of the 18th century
and throughout the 19th, apartments were gaining in popularity. Visitors
rented a suite of rooms, bought their own food locally and the resident
landlady and her servants would do the cooking and cleaning.