Lagerhaus, Lager

English translation: lodge, holiday camp accommodation

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German term or phrase:Lagerhaus, Lager
English translation:lodge, holiday camp accommodation
Entered by: Marc Svetov

20:47 Feb 1, 2015
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel / Hotel accommodations
German term or phrase: Lagerhaus, Lager
"Neurenoviertes, gemütliches Lagerhaus mit 2 Wohnküchen und 28 Schlafplätzen, geeignet für Schulen, Gruppen, Feiern etc."
"Das Soldatenhaus ist eine preiswerte Unterkunft für Gruppen, sowie ein beliebtes Lagerhaus für Schulen."
Schulklassen finden dort eine passende Unterkunft.
Heimelige 4-, 6- und 12-Bettzimmer/lager, kuschelige Bettwäsche, holzvertäferte Wände, Duschen, Waschräume und Toiletten auf den Etagen."

Swiss German.

Hostel?
Camp house?
Marc Svetov
United States
Local time: 06:22
holiday camp accomodation
Explanation:
see here

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Superbly maintained group accommodation. Suitable for school groups and ski camps, with self-catering facilities. Large dining room/lounge, 4 rooms for group leaders, 7 bedrooms. Outdoor play area with table-tennis table. The Chesa Caratsch in S-chanf is used mainly by school groups for field trips or as holiday camp accommodation, but it is also booked by clubs and societies for weekends and holiday trips. It can accommodate 42 people, and is equipped with a modern kitchen and excellent shower facilities. Ideal base for walks in the neighbouring Swiss National Park and in the Upper Engadin. Open: Summer and winter seasons; other times on request.

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http://www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/winter/en/.../chesa-caratsc.....
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franglish
Switzerland
Local time: 13:22
Grading comment
Thanks.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2holiday camp accomodation
franglish
3 +1bunkhouse
Lancashireman
4loft building, loft
Donald Jacobson
3Dorm (style) accommodation
Lesley Robertson MA, Dip Trans IoLET
3barracks/headquarters
Ramey Rieger (X)
3Blockhouse
Yorkshireman
3mattress accommodation
Wendy Streitparth


Discussion entries: 14





  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bunkhouse


Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkhouse
You've already suggested hostel yourself, and I have an aversion to recycling the asker's own suggestions. (I wouldn't say that is a pointless exercise, as such answers are the ones that usually get chosen.)

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A bunkhouse is a hostel or barracks-like building ... (Das Soldatenhaus ist eine preiswerte Unterkunft...)

In the United Kingdom, a bunkhouse provides accommodation with fewer facilities than a larger, staffed youth hostel. Bunkhouses are found in mountainous areas, such as the Scottish Highlands, as well as rural areas in England and Wales, for example at All Stretton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkhouse

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camping house = a house that/which camps

Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 134

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Katie Morrissey
1 day 13 hrs
  -> Thanks, KM. Asker took a closer look at his photo and decided it was a holiday camp.
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Dorm (style) accommodation


Explanation:
Another suggestion, although hostel is fine too

http://www.skibound.co.uk/destination/mid-west-west-coast-us...

Lesley Robertson MA, Dip Trans IoLET
Austria
Local time: 13:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 38
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
barracks/headquarters


Explanation:
The text requires two terms:

Newly renovated barracks.....
...a popular headquarters for schools....

I suggest this for this particular text, accentuating the military background as well as giving a special sense of living 'in the center'. The term would certainly appeal to schoolkids.

Ramey Rieger (X)
Germany
Local time: 13:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 56
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
holiday camp accomodation


Explanation:
see here

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Note added at 12 hrs (2015-02-02 09:13:36 GMT)
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Superbly maintained group accommodation. Suitable for school groups and ski camps, with self-catering facilities. Large dining room/lounge, 4 rooms for group leaders, 7 bedrooms. Outdoor play area with table-tennis table. The Chesa Caratsch in S-chanf is used mainly by school groups for field trips or as holiday camp accommodation, but it is also booked by clubs and societies for weekends and holiday trips. It can accommodate 42 people, and is equipped with a modern kitchen and excellent shower facilities. Ideal base for walks in the neighbouring Swiss National Park and in the Upper Engadin. Open: Summer and winter seasons; other times on request.

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http://www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/winter/en/.../chesa-caratsc.....


franglish
Switzerland
Local time: 13:22
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Peter Keegan
23 mins
  -> Thank you, Peter.

agree  Steffen Walter: accommodation
2 hrs
  -> Thanks for the correction, Steffen!

neutral  Lancashireman: 'Camp' would suggest 'tents' to most readers. The concept of '-haus' (with its holzvertäferte Wände) is missing from this proposal.
3 hrs
  -> If so, it should be camping, not camp.

neutral  Yorkshireman: Showing my age - sounds too much like Butlin's. The epitome of British holiday camps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlins
14 hrs
  -> Good morning, Yorkshireman. What's Butlin's?// Wow! I understand your hesitation now...
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Blockhouse


Explanation:
Sounds like it could be a large wooden hut or blockhouse

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As opposed to Block House - which is a chain of steak restaurants in Germany :-)

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Soldatenhaus makes me think that this is a converted army camp - Lager - so "cabin", "camping cabin", "hut" or "camping hut" could fit quite well.

For the Soldatenhaus alone, the name "billet" comes to mind

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If the buildings are converted barns, the term bunk barns is quite common.

Yorkshireman
Germany
Local time: 13:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lancashireman: In military science, a blockhouse is a small, isolated fort in the form of a single building... During World War I and World War II, many types of blockhouses were built ... of reinforced concrete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockhouse
12 hrs
  -> Soldatenhäuser?
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
mattress accommodation


Explanation:
This is quite common in Swiss chalets or hostels. There is obviously a difference between Bettzimmer/lager, so my guess is that the bed is missing!

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 13:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
loft building, loft


Explanation:
a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy. dictionary definition

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Duden:La|ger|haus, das:

Gebäude zum Lagern von Gütern. See definition of loft. We have many such renovated buildings in Chicago and Milwaukee and they are all referred to as lofts.

Donald Jacobson
United States
Local time: 06:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lancashireman: This definitely won't work for EN-UK where a loft is "a room or space directly under the roof of a house or other building" http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/loft US: "Part of a room on a higher level than the rest of the room"
2 hrs
  -> It would definitely work for a U.S. readership. I can't comment on the United Kingdom, but it is the analogous term for the U.S. I've been in enough of them.
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