About the index

forinpop.com is a small, independent index of hotels. It covers four kinds of stay and nothing else: art hotels, capsule hotels, casino hotels and ice hotels. There are eleven entries at the moment.

Why these four? Each one is easy to recognise and hard to fake. An art hotel has to live with its collection. A capsule hotel has to make a very small room work. A casino hotel has to be a good hotel before anything else. An ice hotel has to be made of ice. That clarity makes for short, honest lists.

What an entry contains

Every hotel gets a location line, two short paragraphs and a few plain labels for the things that define it. The writing sticks to the general character of the place: what the building is, how the rooms work, what sits nearby. It avoids anything that would need a source to back it up, such as prices, awards or rankings.

What it leaves out

There are no star ratings and no reviews, real or otherwise. There is no booking engine, and the site does not take commission from any hotel. If you decide to stay somewhere listed here, you book with the hotel or a service of your choosing.

Who runs it

A small editorial team writes and maintains the index. It has no owner in the hotel trade. Corrections are welcome and are the fastest way the lists improve; the contact page explains how to send one.