The Way In
how these entries are built

A hotel starts working on you before you are inside it.

Three of us have written this guide since 2024, and one of the three does not drive. That single fact changed what we noticed: whether a place can be reached at all, and by what, turned out to be more interesting than anything we could say about a bedroom.

The blocks run from far away to the doorstep, and they do not repeat each other.

The arrival is the long part: the road, the rail line, the water, the terminal. The last hundred metres is the part you cover slowly, usually on your own feet. What the building does with that is the meeting itself, which is where a canopy, a snow tunnel or a plain unmarked door tells you what the house thinks of visitors.

We describe a shape, not a schedule.

Departures change, seasons change, operators change, and a guide that quotes them is wrong within a year. You will find no times, no intervals, no durations and no distances in figures anywhere on this site. What a rack railway or a jetty does to an arrival stays true much longer than any of those numbers.

That line is preparation, not complaint.

Where the way in is unusual, something usually has to be agreed beforehand: bags on a mountain tram, a vehicle on a one-lane bridge, a season that decides whether a snow building exists. Naming it once is more useful than pretending every approach is the same. None of these are faults, and we do not treat them as faults.

Each entry ends with the month we last read the material behind it.

It is a date on our reading, not on your visit and not on the hotel. Things move; the stamp lets you judge how old our description is without guessing.

Everything here is written from published sources.

We read hotel material, architectural writing, maps and reference works, and then put it in our own words. We do not publish trip reports, and nothing on this site claims that one of us stood at any of these doors.

Some things are missing on purpose.

There are no prices, no star counts, no ratings, no booking of any kind and no paid placements. We take no commission, sell no mentions and accept no payment to change or remove a line. Corrections of fact are free and always have been.

Four Canadian resorts are grouped there for one reason: their approaches are worth describing.

A bridge to an island, a street along a gorge, a dock on a river and a road through forest are four different ways to reach a door. The gaming floor is not described, not rated and not recommended on this site. The adult-only note and the helpline numbers stand on Casino Hotels and in Terms of Use.