Still taking guests
The hotels collected on these pages have little in common at first glance. Some are pods stacked in a city block, some moved into old factories, bathhouses or barracks, and some are carved out of snow each December and melt away in spring. What joins them is simple: every one of them still opens its doors to guests.
Each description is drawn from public material — the hotel's own pages, maps of the street and published writing about the building. When a detail could not be checked, it was dropped instead of guessed at. You will find no ratings, no reviews and no booking buttons here.
Capsule Hotels
Compact sleeping pods and small, identical rooms — some in the classic Japanese capsule style, others simply built to use every square metre.
Art Hotels
Urban buildings that had a different working life before the beds moved in, and that still wear that history in their walls.
Ice Hotels
Northern lodgings shaped from snow and river ice, open for a single winter and rebuilt from scratch the year after.
Casino Hotels
Canadian resorts described strictly as buildings: their halls, dining rooms and grounds, and nothing more.
Notes on sources
Every entry is built on material anyone can look up: the hotel's official site, published street mapping, and articles about the building in newspapers or local history. Where two sources disagree, only what both confirm is kept. Nothing is invented and no gap is filled by assumption.
When a building is described by type, the source's own words are used, which can mean the purpose it was first raised for rather than the work it does today. Hotels change, so entries are rechecked from time to time. The full method is explained on the sources page.