Court of Magic
Four kinds of hotel, written up properly
An independent index of art, capsule, casino and ice hotels — what the building is, how the rooms work, and what staying there is actually like.
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Four groups, chosen because they answer genuinely different questions about where to sleep. Every hotel sits in exactly one of them.
Art Hotels
Hotels where the building, the collection or the interior is the reason to book the room.
3 hotelsView →02Capsule Hotels
Compact sleeping berths, engineered down to the essentials and priced accordingly.
3 hotelsView →03Casino Hotels
Hotels with a gaming floor among their facilities, described here as hotels.
4 hotelsView →04Ice Hotels
Structures built from snow and ice, rebuilt from nothing each winter.
1 hotelView →Small on purpose
Eleven hotels is a short list, and it is meant to be. Every entry here was written from scratch, and nothing was added to round out a page. Where a category is thin — the ice hotels most obviously — the reason is explained on the page itself rather than papered over.