How this guide
is written
Every entry on this site is built the same way, and this page explains why the setting comes before the building and what each block is allowed to contain.
A hotel is usually described from the inside out: the room, then the restaurant, then, if there is space, the view. We work the other way round. What stands outside the door is the one thing a building cannot change, and most of what happens inside is an answer to it.
That is true of a rainforest villa and equally true of a capsule floor with nothing but pavement outside. Both are settings. One is simply easier to photograph.
Outside the door holds only what is there: forest, vineyard, river, gorge, snow ground, market street. It does not hold adjectives about mood.
How it gets in holds the means: a courtyard, a wall of glass, a veranda, local timber in the finish, ice cut from the ground nearby, the plan of the rooms.
What is kept out holds the deliberate refusals: wind, sun, cold, street noise, sand, damp. The three blocks are written so that none of them repeats another.
We do not give temperatures, we do not describe the weather of a particular day, and we never say what animal you will see. None of those are properties of a building, and a guide that promises them is writing a forecast rather than a description.
Seasons are mentioned only where a hotel exists because of one, as with the winter builds.
The last line of every entry is preparation, not complaint. If the approach is a staircase, we say so. If a cabin closes with a curtain, we say so.
None of these are faults. They are working businesses, and the line exists so that a reader arrives with the right shoes and the right bag rather than the wrong expectation.
Each entry ends with a month and a year. That is the month in which the published material behind the entry was last opened, and nothing more.
It is not a date of visit and not a claim that everything has stayed the same since.
The descriptions are drawn from published material: the hotels' own sites, architectural writing, and maps. Surroundings are checked against maps rather than assumed from a photograph.
We do not publish accounts of staying anywhere. Where a hotel or its operator writes to us with a correction, we check it against the same published sources and change the entry.
No prices, no star classifications, no ratings, no scores. No booking of any kind, no availability, no affiliate links and no paid placement.
Nobody can buy an entry on this site, and nobody can buy a change to one.
Casino Hotels are here because they are hotels and resorts with a setting, and in Canada that setting is often an island, a river arm, a gorge rim or a lake forest. Read from outside, they belong in the same guide as the rest.
The gaming floor is not described, not rated and not recommended. There is nothing here about odds, bonuses, wagers or loyalty schemes, and no links to gaming sites or applications.