Best Pitch Battles

An index of hotels in four sides

Four categories,
one record.

Best Pitch Battles collects hotels that are worth describing: buildings made to hold art, rooms shrunk to a cabin, resorts with a gaming floor among their halls, and structures cut from lake ice that will not survive the spring. Each side is short. Every track is written out in full.

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Tracklist

The four sides

  1. 01

    Art Hotels

    Side One

    Hotels built around a collection, a commission, or a building that was already a work in its own right. The rooms are the gallery's quieter wing.

    3 entriesPlay side →
  2. 02

    Capsule Hotels

    Side Two

    Compact sleeping units measured in centimetres rather than square metres, where the design question is how little space a good night actually needs.

    3 entriesPlay side →
  3. 03

    Casino Hotels

    Side Three

    Four hotels that happen to have a gaming floor on the property. Described here as hotels first: rooms, restaurants, halls, location.

    4 entriesPlay side →
  4. 04

    Ice Hotels

    Side Four

    Seasonal hotels cut from snow and ice, rebuilt from nothing each winter and returned to the ground each spring.

    1 entryPlay side →

How to play it

Nothing here is ranked and nothing is scored. The order of the sides is an order, not a verdict: art first because it is the category most people arrive for, ice last because it is the one that disappears. Within each side the entries simply follow one another, each with a short set of facts where a running time would sit on a sleeve.

Every description is written here, from the character of the building and its setting. There are no reviews, no star ratings and no booking tools, and there never will be — if a stay interests you, the hotel's own channels are the place to go.