Half of what a hotel is
happens on the way to its door
Eighteen hotels, read from the outside in. Some are reached by a rack railway, some by a boat, some along a terminal floor with no outdoors involved at all. The room comes later; this site starts at the approach.
Every entry is written in three blocks, and they run outward to inward.
The arrival covers what people travel by to get near the place at all. The last hundred metres covers the final stretch on foot, on snow, on gravel or on terminal floor. What the building does with that covers the door itself: the canopy, the tunnel, the porch, the missing wall. The reasoning behind those three blocks, and where the material comes from, is set out on The Way In.
- 01Montreal Casino & HotelCasino HotelsReached only by bridge or park transit
- 02Fallsview Casino ResortCasino HotelsEntered from a town street above the gorge
- 03River Rock Casino ResortCasino HotelsRoad on one side, marina on the other
- 04Casino Rama ResortCasino HotelsA forest road ends at the doors
- 05Riffelalp ResortArt HotelsRack railway, then the hotel's own tram
- 06Monastero Santa RosaArt HotelsCliff road above, then terraced steps down
- 07Isle of Eriska HotelArt HotelsA single iron bridge to the island
- 08The PointArt HotelsForest road, then the lake shore
- 09Bawah ReserveArt HotelsSeaplane to the lagoon, then a boat
- 10Ladera ResortArt HotelsHairpin climb to a ridge between peaks
- 119h nine hours Narita AirportCapsule HotelsAlong the terminal, never stepping outside
- 12YOTELAIR Istanbul AirportCapsule HotelsInside the transit zone, past passport control
- 13NapcabsCapsule HotelsA cabin standing in the departure hall
- 14Sleep 'n flyCapsule HotelsMid-transit, deep inside Terminal 3
- 15IcehotelIce HotelsRiver road east from Kiruna
- 16Sorrisniva Igloo HotelIce HotelsUp the Alta valley over snow
- 17Kirkenes SnowhotelIce HotelsRoad out to a frozen fjord shore
- 18Iglu-DorfIce HotelsLift up, then on foot over snow
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