Social Playes
Top 10 casinos — roulette, cards, dice and gaming chips

Four kinds of hotel, written up properly.

Social Playes is a small editorial index covering art hotels, capsule hotels, casino hotels and ice hotels. Each entry is prose — what the building is, how it works, and who it suits — with no ratings, no scores and nothing for sale.

We write about hotels we can describe accurately. No affiliate bookings, no invented reviews, no star ratings. Entries are revised when a property changes, and dated when they are.

The index

Sixteen hotels, four sections

Every property sits in exactly one section. The full list of each section is below, so you can see what is covered before opening anything.

Section 01 · Four entries

Art Hotels

Hotels where the collection, the commission or the building itself is the reason to stay.

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  • 21c Museum Hotel LouisvilleLouisville, Kentucky, United States
  • The Dolder GrandZurich, Switzerland
  • Hôtel des Arts SaigonHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • The CullenMelbourne, Australia
Section 02 · Four entries

Capsule Hotels

Compact, engineered sleeping berths in cities where a good night close to everything matters more than square metres.

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  • Nine Hours Shinjuku-NorthTokyo, Japan
  • First Cabin Kyoto KarasumaKyoto, Japan
  • Anshin Oyado ShinjukuTokyo, Japan
  • CapsuleTransit KLIA2Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
Section 03 · Four entries

Casino Hotels

Full-service hotels that happen to keep a gaming floor among their facilities.

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  • Montreal Casino & HotelMontreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Fallsview Casino ResortNiagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
  • River Rock Casino ResortRichmond, British Columbia, Canada
  • Casino Rama ResortRama, Ontario, Canada
Section 04 · Four entries

Ice Hotels

Seasonal hotels rebuilt each winter from snow and ice, with warm accommodation alongside.

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  • IcehotelJukkasjärvi, Sweden
  • Hôtel de GlaceSaint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec, Canada
  • Kirkenes SnowhotelKirkenes, Norway
  • SnowHotel KemiKemi, Finland

Method

How the entries are written

Each hotel is described in continuous prose rather than a specification sheet: the building, the setting, and what a stay actually involves. Facts are kept general and checkable, and anything that would need a source we do not have is left out. Nothing on this site can be booked, and no property has any say over its entry.

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