About

Icerink Champions is an independent index of hotels. It covers four kinds of stay that are easy to name and harder to compare: art hotels, capsule hotels, casino hotels and ice hotels.

Why four categories

Each category answers a different question. An art hotel asks what hangs on the walls and who put it there. A capsule hotel asks how little space a good night needs. A casino hotel is judged here first as a hotel. An ice hotel asks what happens when the building melts each spring.

Keeping to four lets every entry get proper attention. We would rather describe a handful of properties well than list hundreds in passing.

How we write

Descriptions stick to what a hotel is and where it stands. We leave out prices, since they change. We leave out scores, since a number says little about a hotel as unusual as these. There are no reviews on the site and no star ratings.

What we are not

We are not a travel agent. Nothing can be booked here. No hotel pays to appear in the index, and none of the text is supplied by the properties themselves. If you plan a stay, go to the hotel directly and confirm the details there.