An index in four branches

Every hotel here belongs to one of four branches

A branching index of art, capsule, casino and ice hotels. We write about buildings — what they are made of, what they were before, and what it is actually like to sleep in them. Follow a line down to the branch you want.

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3 entries

Art Hotels

Hotels where the collection, the commissions and the building itself are part of why you stay.

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3 entries

Capsule Hotels

Compact, engineered sleeping berths in places where a small room is the point, not a compromise.

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4 entries

Casino Hotels

Full-service hotels that happen to keep a gaming floor among their facilities.

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1 entry

Ice Hotels

Structures rebuilt each winter from snow and ice, standing only as long as the cold holds.

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Four branches, eleven hotels, no rankings

There is no scoring system on this site and no best-of list. A capsule berth beside a bullet-train platform and a frescoed palazzo in Basilicata are not competing with one another, so we describe each one on its own terms and let the branch it sits on do the sorting.