Friday, January 05, 2007

"Stay at" and "stay in"

I found 2 idioms of "stay" in a script I was studying the other day.

1) The hotel we are going stay in is the Hotel Ritz.
2) We stay at the Hotel Ritz whenever we can.

Hmm... What is different between "stay in" and "stay at"? Same meaning? I use "stay at". I don't use "stay in". but is there any difference?

Preposition is very difficult.

2 comments:

PA said...

Pretty much the same, I think.
Although you can say, "I'm staying in!" meaning you won't be going out (to the pub etc.) whereas you can't say, "I'm staying at!"...but that was obvious ;-)

sand said...

I see, thank you! Yes, I feel "stay in" has an image of sticking in a hotel room.