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Every hotel here
keeps one part moving

Eighteen hotels and resorts, each with a mechanism or a craft of its own that goes out and comes back, day after day. A funicular on a private slope, a launch with a crew, a sledge harnessed in a yard, a trolley of clean linen.

Something on this site goes back and forth all day.

A bronze circular emblem with a silver ten and five stars on patterned burgundy cloth.

from the concourse · linen trolley · to the cabins

YOTELAIR Amsterdam Schiphol

from the departure hall · walking crowd · to the cabin door

Napcabs Munich Airport

from the arrivals floor · rolling luggage · to the pod row

ZZZleepandGo

from the street door · lift and corridor · to the upper berths

The Prime Pod Kyoto

from the winter village · sledge team · to the frozen lake

Torassieppi Winter Village

from the resort yard · evening sleigh · to the open ground

Apukka Resort

from the west village · resort transfer · to the east village

Kakslauttanen West Village

from the hotel shore · snowmobile sledge · to the lake ice

Wilderness Hotel Inari

from the lake shore · hotel funicular · up to the ridge

Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa

from the boat landing · funicular car · up to the terrace

Grand Hotel Giessbach

from the town below · cable-drawn carriage · up to the slope

Hotel Schatzalp

from the city quay · hotel launch · across to the island

Belmond Hotel Cipriani

from the private landing · river boat · out onto the Thames

Cliveden House

from the hotel pontoon · motor launch · out across the lake

Grand Hotel Tremezzo

from the island edge · river water · around to the pavilions

Montréal Casino & Hotel

from the lower entrance · inclined lifts · up to the hotel floors

Fallsview Casino Resort

from the river arm · arriving vessels · to the resort dock

River Rock Casino Resort

from the resort doors · site shuttles · out to the lakeshore

Casino Rama Resort

We look at the moving part because it is the one thing a hotel cannot pretend about. A rail has to be kept, a boat has to be crewed, a harness has to be fitted before dark. That work says more about a place than any room does, and it is where we start. Our method is set out in What Moves Here.

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