Independent hotel index
A short list of hotels, described properly.
Eleven properties in four categories — art, capsule, casino and ice. Each entry explains what the building is, where it stands and what a night there actually involves.
The index
Four categories, four reasons to travel.
Every entry sits on its category page in full — prose, location and the facts worth knowing. Nothing is hidden behind a click.
Art Hotels
Buildings where the art programme and the architecture were decided together.
Read the entries →- The Wall Street Hotel
- 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge
- COMO Uma Canggu
Capsule Hotels
Compact sleeping cabins, and the space that saves spent downstairs.
Read the entries →- citizenM Nashville
- 9 Hours Naha
- Hotel MyCUBE Sapporo
Casino Hotels
Four Canadian resorts, described as hotels first.
Read the entries →- Montreal Casino & Hotel
- Fallsview Casino Resort
- River Rock Casino Resort
- Casino Rama Resort
Ice Hotels
Snow and ice, rebuilt from scratch every winter.
Read the entries →- Lapland Hotels SnowVillage
Editorial standards
Description, not recommendation.
What is actually there
We describe the building, the setting and the character of a stay, then stop where verifiable knowledge stops.
Written, not aggregated
No scraped review scores and no star ratings. Every entry is written as prose, by hand, and corrected when a reader tells us it has aged.
Nothing for sale
No bookings, no payments, no affiliate links and no paid placements. A hotel appears here because it is worth describing.
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