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SS15 LRT station is a Light Rapid Transit station connects the SS15 and SS17 neighborhoods in Subang Jaya, Selangor. The station is located at Jalan Jengka. It is operated under the Kelana Jaya LRT system network as found in the station signage. Like most other LRT stations operating in Klang Valley, this station is elevated.
One of the last remaining textile mill boarding houses in Lowell, Massachusetts, on right; part of the Lowell National Historical Park. A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, or years.
An American college dormitory room in 2002. A dormitory (originated from the Latin word dormitorium, [1] often abbreviated to dorm), also known as a hall of residence or a residence hall (often abbreviated to halls), is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, college or university students.
In March 2009, the name of the company was shortened to Airbnb.com to eliminate confusion over air mattresses; by then listings included entire rooms and properties. [8] By November 2010, out of 700,000 nights booked, 80% had occurred in the previous six months. [19] At the March 2011 South by Southwest conference, Airbnb won the "app" award. [20]
Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Japan, capsule hotels provide a tiny room suitable only for sleeping and shared bathroom facilities.
The Burj Al Arab (Arabic: برج العرب, lit. ' Arab Tower ') is a luxury hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [8] Developed and managed by Jumeirah, it is one of the tallest hotels in the world, although 39% of its total height is made up of non-occupiable space.
Single-room occupancy (SRO) is a type of low-cost housing typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes, [1] or single adults who like a minimalist lifestyle, who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. [2]
Harold Pinter's play The Room (1957) is a "kitchen sink" drama evoking the squalor and social depression of the bed-sitting room culture of the time. British comedian Tony Hancock was the performer of the sole character in "The Bedsitter" ( Hancock 1961) by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the BBC, a depiction of the boredom of bedsit existence.