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Hotels and their predecessors have been around for thousands of years. So what were they like back in the medieval period? Were they full of knights, adventurers, drunkards, bandits, and a wench or two? Turns out, just like today, you had a choice of accommodations based on the coin in your pocket, so where would you have stayed?

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Medieval Minstrel Music - English Bard by Theme Cloud is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

The Britons by Kevin MacLeod

Ale and Anecdotes by Darren Curtis is licensed under a Creative Commons License.