Art Hotels
Hotels where the collection, the commission or the building itself is the reason to stay.
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Independent hotel index
Four kinds of hotel, written up plainly.
Some hotels are worth a paragraph for the art on the walls. Others for how little space they need, or for the river outside, or for the ice they are cut from. This is an index of eleven of them, sorted into four categories and described without embellishment.
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Each category collects properties that share a premise. Open one to read the full entries.
Capsule Hotels
Compact sleeping cabins, engineered so that a small footprint still feels calm.
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Full-service hotels that happen to keep a licensed gaming floor on the premises.
View casino hotelsIce Hotels
Cold-climate properties built around snow, ice and the long polar night.
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Entries here are descriptive. We write what a property is, where it stands and what it is built around — then leave the judgement to whoever is reading. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and no reservation is ever taken through it.