How this is written
The Long Window holds eighteen working hotels in four categories. This page says how those houses were chosen, where the notes come from, what the site deliberately leaves out, and how to tell us that something has gone out of date. It is short on purpose.
How the hotels were chosen
Each category holds houses that can be described by what they are rather than by how they compare. The art category takes buildings that were something else first. The winter category takes buildings made of ice and snow. The capsule category takes houses built on one repeated unit. The casino category takes four Canadian resorts, written up as buildings.
What the notes are built from
The starting point is what a hotel publishes about itself: its own pages, its own descriptions of shared rooms and access. Maps and published accounts are used to place a building and to describe its surroundings. Where a claim could not be confirmed in an open source, the sentence was rewritten so that it no longer depends on it.
What is not here
There are no prices, no stars, no room counts, no reviews and no reservations. No house is placed above another, and none is set against another. There are no affiliate links. Promises about weather, availability or how a stay will feel are outside what a reference of this kind can honestly make.
Reading the winter category
Buildings of ice and snow stand for a single season. They are cut and packed from nothing each year, usually to a new plan, and they melt or are taken down in spring. Opening weeks move with the weather, so this site does not print them; ask the operator. Where an operator also runs heated cabins or a year-round cooled building on the same ground, the entry says so, because glass-roofed cabins are ordinary heated rooms and not ice chambers.
Telling us about an error
If a detail here is wrong or has gone stale, write and say which entry and which line. Corrections are made to the page rather than argued about. Contact details are on this page.