A tall building marked with a bold 'H,' the hotel emoji is used for travel lodging of any kind, from a vacation stay to a business trip. It covers the general logistics of booking a room away from home, and shows up often in travel-planning threads alongside the airplane and suitcase.
What 🏨 means
A tall building with an arched roof at the center, followed and preceded by a straight one. The arch is balanced by two long pillars between which is painted a capital 'H', a couple of windows on either side, a glass door below the logo, and plants on both sides of the door.
The 🏨 Hotel emoji is a generic representation of an accommodative place (puns definitely intended). It signifies a place to stay; which can be permanent or for definitive purposes, varying levels of comfort, security, and price, and also a venue for various events.
How and when to use it
- 🏨 can be used to refer to a place of stay and also a posh place to eat, since a 'hotel' is also used to refer to restaurants (the seven-star and other Michelin star restaurants).
- If you've booked a hotel to accommodate your time at a new place and you're letting someone important in your life know about it, or you're just posting social media stories/posts about the same, use 🏨.
- If you're pitching in an idea for the staycation during a travel itinerary discussion, you use 🏨. This can be done even while indicating "accommodation" in any framework (post, text message, etc).
- You can also use 🏨 in the post caption while posting or reposting some eyegasmic pictures and/or videos of hotels; it can be a 'stay goals' post, a picture of the beautiful and expensive hotel you stayed at, anything.
- If you're sharing a song, a movie, or any such information that is either briefly about a hotel or has the word 'hotel' in it, you can use 🏨 in such contexts too. For instance, "Mine? Hotel California is on loop 🏨".
Other Names
- 🏨 Inn
- 🏨 Motel
- 🏨 Guest House
- 🏨 Paying Guest
- 🏨 Lodge
- 🏨 Temporary Place of Stay
- 🏨 Accommodation
- 🏨 Seven-Star Hotel
- 🏨 Michelin-Starred Hotel
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-building
- Codepoints
U+1F3E8- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:hotel:- Keywords
- building, hotel
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🏨 Hotel or 🚸 Children Crossing?
Runs with a crowd
🏨 keeps company in travel emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.