Four kinds of hotel, written up one at a time.
Plyfantsft is a small written index of unusual places to sleep: hotels built around an art collection, hotels built around a sleeping capsule, casino hotels, and hotels carved each winter out of ice. Each property gets a few paragraphs rather than a row in a table.
Start with a category.
The four sections are not moods or price brackets. Each one names a structural decision the building has made, and everything in the section follows from it.
Art Hotels
Collections, commissions, and rooms shaped around them.
Read the section4 entries 02Capsule Hotels
Berths, shared floors, and the engineering of a small room.
Read the section4 entries 03Casino Hotels
Resort properties written up as hotels first.
Read the section4 entries 04Ice Hotels
Buildings carved each winter and gone by spring.
Read the section4 entriesThe four categories share a habit: each asks the guest to accept a constraint — a public gallery downstairs, a bed the size of a berth, a resort floor that never closes, a room that will be water again by May — and gives something back in return. That trade is what the writing here tries to describe.
Entries stick to the durable character of a property: what the building is, where it stands, how it is organised, what it is known for. Prices, menus and seasons are left to the hotels themselves.