Where this comes from
This page sets out how the entries were put together, so that a reader can judge them. In short: open sources, plain sentences, and a cut line wherever a claim could not be traced back to something published.
How the houses were chosen
Each address had to be a working hotel with a building worth describing, and it had to belong plainly to one of the kinds of house gathered here. Beyond that the choice is editorial. No operator asked to appear here, none was paid for, and none was left out for refusing anything.
Where a chain runs several branches under one name, the entry names the branch it describes rather than the chain in general, because the arrangements differ from one house to another.
What was used as a source
The hotel's own published pages come first for how a house describes its rooms and its shared space. Maps and civic records were used for where a building stands and what surrounds it. Published writing was used where it names what it draws on.
A year appears in an entry only when a source states it. Where a date was contested or vague, the sentence was rewritten so that it stays true without one. The month and year in each entry record when the sources were last read.
What is not here
No prices, no stars, no marks of quality, no counts of rooms, no reviews, no booking. No comparisons between one house and another: each entry is written to stand alone.
Nothing about weather, availability, access or how a stay will feel. Photographs show buildings and rooms; they are not evidence that anything is open.
Reading the winter section
The snow and ice buildings are the least stable part of the site. Most are built from nothing at the start of a cold season and are gone by the melt, so a plan, a carving or a bar from last year tells you nothing about this one.
Where an operator keeps a cooled building through the year, or runs heated cabins beside the cold ones, the entry says so in its own words rather than leaving the reader to assume. Glass-roofed cabins are heated and are named as heated.
Why the fields differ
The kinds of house gathered here are not answerable to the same questions, so each section keeps its own fields. A converted palace is fixed by what the building is and which street it stands on; a winter build by its season and its site; a compact address by what the sleeping place actually is.
Forcing all of them into one row of labels would have made the fields either empty or misleading, so they were left different on purpose.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, out of date or unfair to a house, write and say so, with the source if you have one. Corrections are made to the page rather than noted at the bottom of it. The address is on the contact page.