1) The word lodge can have various meanings. Here are some of its meanings as an hotel: - "a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers" http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lodge - "In general, a place offering inexpensive overnight accommodation with basic amenities." http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/lodge.html - "Hotel, especially with a rustic or wilderness theme, or situated outside a city" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodge Here some of its various other meanings: "lodge 1. Porter's rooms in the main entrance to a building. 2. A group of freemasons, the smallest organizational structure of freemasons. 3. A hotel or resort, usually in a rural area 4. A building used for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin 5. A country house 6. A reservoir providing water for a Lancashire cotton mill (UK). 7. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake." Source and further information: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lodge Note that meaning 3 is an hotel, but meaning 4, which could also be a *cabin*, is not an hotel! 2) The word cabin describes a particular kind of dwelling, it is not primarily related to its use as an hotel accomodation. It can also have various meanings: "1. A small, roughly built house; a cottage. 2. Nautical a. A room in a ship used as living quarters by an officer or passenger. b. An enclosed compartment in a boat that serves as a shelter or as living quarters. 3. The enclosed space in an aircraft or spacecraft for the crew, passengers, or cargo. tr. & intr.v. cab·ined, cab·in·ing, cab·ins To confine or live in or as if in a small space or area." Source and further information: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cabin Note that a passenger cabin on a cruise ship can be considered as an hotel room of a floating hotel. Also, a cottage could be used for (roughly built) hotel rooms. Further information: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin

you have to pay a hell of a lot more for the STARS you get in a hotel than you do for the STARS you get in a cabin... especially when the cabin has a hole in the roof.. j/k

Location and amenities.