The Long Window
Eighteen hotels, written up plainly
The Long Window is an independent reference to eighteen working hotels, held in four categories. Each entry says what the building is, where it stands and what its shared rooms hold, using what the houses and other open sources publish. Nothing here is sold or held for you. There are no prices, no stars, no reviews and no reservations on this site.
- Art HotelsSix older houses kept in use for guests, from a garden palazzo wing to a former civic building in Berlin.Six entries
- Casino HotelsFour Canadian resorts written up as buildings: halls, restaurants, spa floors and the ground they stand on.Four entries
- Capsule HotelsFour houses built from one repeated sleeping unit, where the shared floors carry what the unit leaves out.Four entries
- Ice HotelsFour winter buildings of ice and snow, raised again each season, with the heated rooms that stand beside them.Four entries
All eighteen
- artHotel Vilòn Rome, Italy
- artHotel Wilmina Berlin, Germany
- artHôtel de la Boétie Paris, France
- artCasa Modernista São Paulo, Brazil
- artPalazzo Talìa Rome, Italy
- artChâteau de Bagnols Beaujolais, France
- casinoMontréal Casino & Hotel Île Notre-Dame, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- casinoFallsview Casino Resort Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- casinoRiver Rock Casino Resort Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
- casinoCasino Rama Resort Rama, Ontario, Canada
- capsuleFirst Cabin Kansai Airport Osaka, Japan
- capsuleGlobal Cabin Yokohama Kannai Yokohama, Japan
- capsuleeasyHotel Rotterdam City Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands
- capsuleYOTEL Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom
- iceHôtel de Glace Québec, Canada
- iceArctic SnowHotel Rovaniemi, Finland
- iceIglu-Dorf Zermatt Zermatt, Switzerland
- iceSnowCastle of Kemi Kemi, Finland
How this is written
Entries are written from what a hotel publishes about itself, together with maps and published accounts. Where a claim could not be confirmed, it was left out rather than softened. Buildings are described as they are used, and the notes stay with what a reader can check.
Winter buildings of ice and snow are treated apart, because they stand for one season and are raised again the next. Chain addresses are named as chain addresses. Nothing on this site ranks the houses or sets them against one another.