A Viennese hotel I am interested in lists their rates as follows: <BR>Double room 1160 Austrian Schillings <BR>Full Board/day/person 780 AS <BR>Demi Pension/day/person 390 AS <BR> <BR>Does anyone know what exactly Demi Pension is? I'm assuming full board includes the room, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. <BR>

A bed and a breakfast. Full board will <BR>include that and perhaps tea, and dinner.

Anna, <BR>Full board means bed, breakfast, lunch and diner. <BR>Demi pension (half board) means bed, breakfast and diner. <BR>If you want to see something from a city/country you'd better take the demi pension or even only bed & breakfast so that you are free to go the whole day. If you take full board (which is proportionally cheaper) you will have to go back to your hotel for lunch.

My experience is that "demi pension" means breakfast is included and provides an option of room only or room and breakfast. I've never understood full board (or full pension) to mean anything other than breakfast plus dinner. I.E., my experience is not that it is 3 meals a day. Why not call the hotel and ask?

Here I am again. I'm absolutely sure about my former posting as in Europe, and especially in Belgium, "full board" (yes, 3 meals included) is very common. <BR> <BR>To clarify: <BR>bed & breakfast(chambre+petit dejeuner) = what it says, bed+breakfast <BR>half board (demi pension)= bed, breakfast + one meal (usually diner) <BR>full board (pension complet) = bed, breakfast + 2 meals (lunch+diner). <BR> <BR>So half or full board have nothing to do with room only or afternoon tea etc.