Art Hotels
Buildings that count as the artwork: a royal palace, a lakeside curve of white tile, a hillside monastery. Each one is worth the stay for its walls as much as its rooms.
Hotel index · Eleven entries
Eleven hotels, each one checked and stamped.
A short index of art, capsule, casino and ice hotels, written plainly and kept small on purpose.
Four categories
Each category carries its own colour and seal number. Open one to read every entry in full.
Capsule Hotels
Small sleeping spaces, shared bathrooms and lounges, central addresses. The format started in Japan and now turns up wherever space costs money.
Casino Hotels
Four Canadian casino hotels, from Niagara to the Fraser River. Rooms, restaurants and stages come first here; the gaming floor is one part of each property.
Ice Hotels
One entry, and it is the original. A hotel north of the Arctic Circle rebuilt from river ice every winter.
About the seals
How entries are verified
The numbered seal on each entry marks a hotel that has gone through the same three steps.
Selection
A hotel gets in when its category is the honest reason to book it. The building, the format or the setting has to earn the place.
Verification
Names, locations and the main features are checked against what the hotels themselves publish. Anything uncertain is left out rather than guessed.
Scope
Entries describe character, not prices or availability. No ratings, no rankings, and no booking through this site.