How this register works
The method behind the eighteen entries: how the houses were chosen, which sources are used, what the register leaves out, and how to report something that has gone wrong.
How the hotels were chosen
Four categories were fixed first, and the houses were then picked to show what each category actually contains. Casino Hotels holds four Canadian resorts. Art Hotels holds six European buildings made for something other than hotel work. Capsule Hotels holds four houses built on a repeating fitted plan. Ice Hotels holds four mountain winter houses reached by railway, funicular, cable car or snow road.
No house was included because it is popular, and none was left out because it is not. The register does not arrange hotels in an order and does not set one against another.
Which sources are used
Each entry begins with the hotel's own published pages, then adds maps, municipal and heritage records, and reporting from named publications. Where a statement could not be confirmed in more than one place, it was rewritten until it was true without that confirmation, or dropped.
The fact line on every entry carries the month and year the text was last read against its sources. That date is the only claim the register makes about how current an entry is.
What is not here
There are no prices, no star classifications, no room counts, no reviews and no booking links. There are no affiliate arrangements of any kind, and nothing on the site is paid for by a hotel.
The gaming floors of the Canadian resorts are not described, and the register carries no material about games of chance. Those four houses appear here as buildings with halls, restaurants, spa floors and grounds.
Telling us about an error
Buildings close for work, chains rename addresses, and mountain lifts stop running. If something here is wrong or has gone out of date, write and say so, with the source if you have one. Corrections are made by hand and the date on the entry is moved. The contact page has the address.