Category 01
Art Hotels
Rooms and public spaces shaped by artists and architects rather than by a standard fit-out. Each entry is a working hotel first, with the art built into how it is used.
3 entriesOpen art hotels
An index of hotels in four categories
Hotels worth a closer look, entered one by one.
Art, capsule, casino and ice hotels, each written up in a short page of plain prose.
Four categories, four colours
11 hotels in total. Each category keeps its own colour through the ledger, so the seal on an entry tells you where it belongs.
Category 02
Capsule Hotels
Berths, pods and compact rooms that trade floor area for a central address. Useful for a short night, a late train or a city stopover.
3 entriesOpen capsule hotels
Category 03
Casino Hotels
Resort hotels with towers of guest rooms, dining and performance venues. The gaming floor is listed as one feature of each property, not the headline.
4 entriesOpen casino hotels
Category 04
Ice Hotels
Rooms carved from frozen river water and remade each season by invited artists. One property in this category, the original of the type.
1 entryOpen ice hotels
How entries are sealed into the ledger
Selection
A property earns a place when its character fits the category in a way a guest would notice on arrival. Size and price do not decide it.
Verification
Every line is checked against the hotel's own published material and established public records. Where a detail cannot be confirmed, it stays out.
Scope
Four categories, no rankings and no scores. The entries describe what each hotel is, and the decision about where to stay is left with you.
The ledger, in order
Every entry, numbered in the order the categories appear.
- Hôtel Dame des ArtsParis, France
- Hotel Puerta AmericaMadrid, Spain
- The JouleDallas, United States
- Booth Netcafe & CapsuleTokyo, Japan
- Capsule Hotel & Sauna New Japan EXHiroshima, Japan
- Pod PhillyPhiladelphia, United States
- Montreal Casino & HotelMontreal, Canada
- Fallsview Casino ResortNiagara Falls, Canada
- River Rock Casino ResortRichmond, Canada
- Casino Rama ResortRama, Canada
- IcehotelJukkasjärvi, Sweden