Eighteen hotels · four sections

A building decides how often you meet other people

That decision is drawn in the plan, and we read it there: the places everyone crosses, and the routes that keep guests apart.

An engraved medallion on velvet.

A list of facilities tells you what a hotel owns. The plan tells you what your two nights will feel like: whether you pass the same faces at the stair every morning, or reach your door without seeing anyone. That is a property of the drawing, not of the staff or the season, and it is the one thing we read on every page. More on the method in Reading the Plan.

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Art Hotels

Hotels where the fabric of an old or unusual building sets the routes

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Capsule Hotels

Hotels where the berth is private and everything else is shared

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Casino Hotels

Canadian resorts read for corridors and concourses, never for the gaming floor

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Ice Hotels

Seasonal buildings of snow and ice, where warmth decides where people stand