Independent hotel index
Hotels that are worth describing rather than ranking.
Four kinds of building, 11 of them in all: hotels made around art, hotels made around very small rooms, hotels that include a gaming floor, and hotels carved from snow each winter.
11
properties described
4
categories, fixed
0
ratings or rankings
The index
Four categories, nothing else
Every entry lives on its category page, in full, with the reasoning kept visible.
Art Hotels
Hotels where the building, the collection and the setting are treated as one continuous piece of design work.
COMO Cocoa Island · The Chedi Andermatt · Amangiri
View categoryCapsule Hotels
Compact-room hotels built around efficient sleeping space and generous shared floors.
citizenM Amsterdam · Hotel MyCUBE Kagoshima · Locke at Broken Wharf
View categoryCasino Hotels
Full-service hotels that happen to include a gaming floor among their facilities.
Montreal Casino & Hotel · Fallsview Casino Resort · River Rock Casino Resort · Casino Rama Resort
View categoryIce Hotels
Seasonal structures rebuilt from snow and ice each winter, then returned to the mountain in spring.
Iglu-Dorf Davos-Klosters
View categoryEditorial approach
What the index promises
Plain description
What the building is made of, where it stands, what a guest meets on arrival. No scores, no stars, no ordering by merit.
Four categories only
Art, capsule, casino and ice. Anything that fits none of the four is left out, however interesting it may be.
Honest length
A category grows only when a property can be described accurately. Ice hotels holds one entry, and that is the truthful size of it.
No commercial ties
Nothing here is booked, sold or sponsored. Inclusion implies no relationship with the hotel named.
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Hotels rebuild, close for a season, change hands. Corrections are the most useful mail this project receives.
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