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Art Hotels
Here the stay itself carries a point of view. A clifftop hotel with a long photographic past, a Cornish retreat and a Bordeaux-country stopover each treat art and setting as the main event.
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Hotels with a strong idea behind them.
Some sleep you in a pod. Some rebuild themselves from river ice. Some grew out of a painter's coast or a clifftop in Tuscany. This index collects a few that are worth knowing, and says plainly why.
The four categories
Every hotel sits in exactly one section. Pick a colour and start there.
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Capsule Hotels
Small spaces, planned carefully. This section runs from a classic Japanese capsule to a pod-in-a-room concept and a cabin hotel on one of Asia's busiest shopping streets.
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Casino Hotels
Each of these is a hotel first, with rooms, restaurants and event space. A casino sits inside the property as one more thing to do, alongside theatres, spas and waterfront views.
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Ice Hotels
One entry, and it is the original. The hotel in Swedish Lapland is cut from frozen river water each winter and shaped into rooms by invited artists.
Open Ice HotelsHow the index works
i.
Selection
A hotel gets in when its category is the reason to stay. Size, price and fame do not decide it.
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Verification
Descriptions stick to broad, lasting facts: where a hotel is, what kind of place it is, what it is known for. Details that change often are left to the hotels themselves.
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Scope
Four sections, a handful of entries each. No rankings, no scores, no booking engine. Just a short list, written with care.