Lodging a holiday accommodation is a residential accommodation. People travel and stay away from the home for more than a day need lodging for sleep, rest, safety, shelter from cold temperatures or rain, storage of luggage, and access to common household functions. They do that in a hotel, hostal, a private home, in a tent, caravan/camper. In addition there are make-shift solutions.

Sometimes people sleep sitting, because lying is not possible, e.g. in a train, a bus, a seat in a waiting room, a bench on the street or in a park. Inclinable seats allow something between sitting and lying. Whether lying on a row of seats is possible and comfortable depends on the presence of arm rests, and whether they can be moved up. In some public places lying would be possible but is not permitted. Boarding house known as a rooming house or a lodging house mainly in the United States. A house often a family home in which people on vacation or lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years.

The American youth hostels in the United States is in New York City, located in a landmark building designed by the noted architect Richard Morris Hunt. This popular hostel occupies the entire east blockfront of Amsterdam Avenue between the 103d and 104th Streets in Manhattan. Backpacking is a term that has been used to denote a form of low-cost, independent international travel. As the independent travel or budget travel are often used interchangeably with backpacking. Homelessness includes the people whose primary daytime residence is in an institution that provides a residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping conditions for human beings.

List of types of lodging
1) Airplane 2) Apartment 3) Apartment hotel 4) Barn conversion 5) Barracks 6) Bed and breakfast
7) Caravan parks 8) Choultry 9) Cottage 10) Dormitory 11) Farmstay 12) Hospitality services
13) Log cabin 14) Longhouse 15) Pension 16) Retirement home etc.