In Mount and Blade you can "Wait here for some time" in a castle, a city, a town (if it has a manor I think?), and a camp. In addition you can just stand around in the field and wait.
Is there a difference between these? Other than the obvious price and safety difference, of course. Are trainers more effective in a camp than when just waiting in the field for example? Do heroes heal faster in any of them?
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Other than the differences you listed (price and safety), you party heals faster when waiting in a fort/town or village with a manor. The amount of experience granted from training is solely determined by the skill of the trainer and nothing else.
There is 1 (very minor) drawback to waiting in a town/fort/manor, and that is you can't open the dialog to 'take an action' and select a new book to read.