An index of eleven hotels
Hotels worth reading about, sorted into four clear categories.
Art hotels, capsule hotels, casino hotels and one ice hotel. Each entry is a short, plain description of the place. No scores. No booking engine.
Four categories
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Art Hotels
Hotels where the building, the rooms or the setting carry real artistic weight: a Nevsky Prospekt landmark, a Chelsea townhouse with a literary past, a medieval Tuscan estate.
Three hotels
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Capsule Hotels
Small, deliberate spaces. Two capsule hotels in Japan and one compact city hotel in Germany, chosen for how carefully they use very little room.
Three hotels
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Casino Hotels
Four Canadian casino hotels, described as hotels first: rooms, restaurants, theatres and settings, with the gaming floor as one feature of each property.
Four hotels
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Ice Hotels
A single entry, kept on purpose: the hotel in Swedish Lapland that is rebuilt from river ice every winter.
One hotel
Eleven hotels is a small number. That is the idea. Every entry here can be read in a couple of minutes, and every one describes a hotel as it is, not as a ranking would like it to be.