0 in Switzerland, a summer hut in the mountains for shepherds etc. -- pondok
1 a small (wooden) house used by holidaymakers etc -- chalet
a ski chalet.
Other chalets and static caravans such as mine are temporarily occupied during the summer season.
I merely ask him to treat holiday chalets and caravans in the same way.
A caravan is not a chalet; it is a vehicle—a means of transport, like a boat.
That is simply to ensure that hotel residents include those who now live in the rather popular separate chalets.
What is wanted is a number of the chalet type of hotels.
After all, hotels pay their rates, which is more than the caravans and chalets do.
Until then, the chalet dwellers owned their chalets, but were granted individual licences by the freeholders.
There would have been hundreds of holiday chalet developments; crofts would have been sold as holiday homes, some keeping a few goats.
