EvaGarage

An independent index of hotels worth knowing about — four kinds, sixteen buildings, no bookings.

Most hotels are variations on one room. These are not.

Eva Garage covers four kinds of hotel that each broke the standard room in a different direction — by filling the building with art, by shrinking the room to its function, by attaching a gaming floor to a resort, and by carving the whole thing out of ice. Sixteen properties, described plainly, with nothing to sell.

Casino atmosphere with golden shield, cards, chips and roulette
01

Art Hotels

Buildings that hold a collection and rent rooms inside it.

  1. 21c Museum Hotel LouisvilleLouisville, Kentucky, United States
  2. The Dolder GrandZurich, Switzerland
  3. art'otel AmsterdamAmsterdam, Netherlands
  4. Le Royal Monceau – Raffles ParisParis, France
02

Capsule Hotels

Hotels that solved the room by shrinking it and enlarging everything around it.

  1. Nine Hours KyotoKyoto, Japan
  2. Book and Bed TokyoTokyo, Japan
  3. The Millennials ShibuyaTokyo, Japan
  4. Capsule Hotel Anshin Oyado ShinjukuTokyo, Japan
03

Casino Hotels

Large hotels with a gaming floor among their facilities.

  1. Montreal Casino & HotelMontreal, Quebec, Canada
  2. Fallsview Casino ResortNiagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
  3. River Rock Casino ResortRichmond, British Columbia, Canada
  4. Casino Rama ResortRama, Ontario, Canada
04

Ice Hotels

Hotels rebuilt each winter out of water and returned to the river each spring.

  1. IcehotelJukkasjärvi, Sweden
  2. Hôtel de GlaceQuébec City, Québec, Canada
  3. Kirkenes SnowhotelKirkenes, Norway
  4. Arctic SnowHotel & Glass IgloosRovaniemi, Finland

Everything here is written from published information about buildings that exist and operate. There are no ratings, no rankings, no review scores and no booking links, because none of those would make the descriptions any more useful. If a property has changed and this index has not, tell us and it will be corrected.