How this is made

This page sets out how the eighteen notes were put together, what they rest on and what they leave out. The method is plain: read what a house publishes, read what open sources hold about the building, then write the same four things about every entry and stop there.

How the houses were chosen

Four groups were fixed first, then houses were picked to fill them: four casino resorts in Canada, four winter buildings of ice and snow, four houses built from one repeated room, and six older buildings kept in use for guests. Every house is a working hotel at the time of writing.

What the notes rest on

Sources are the pages a house publishes about itself, public maps, and press notices about the building. Where a claim could not be confirmed, the sentence was rewritten so that it stays true without it. Facts carry the month and year they were last read.

What is absent

There are no prices, no stars, no room counts, no reviews and no reservation links. Houses are not compared with one another and no order of merit is drawn. The licensed floor of the Canadian resorts is not described, and nothing on this site invites anyone to use it.

Reading the winter group

Buildings of ice and packed snow stand for one winter season and are raised again from new material each year, so what stood last winter is gone. No season dates are promised here; ask the house. Heated glazed units are named as heated units: they are not ice rooms. Where an operator keeps warm cabins on the same site, the entry says so.

Telling us about an error

If something here is wrong or has gone out of date, write and say which entry and which line. Corrections are made in place and the checked date is moved forward. The address is on the contact page.