About

Neynerlux is an independent editorial index of hotels that are unusual in a specific, describable way. It exists because the four kinds of property it covers — art hotels, capsule hotels, casino hotels and ice hotels — are consistently badly served by general listings, which tend to flatten them into the same paragraph of adjectives.

The index is organised into exactly those four sections. A property is included when the thing that makes it distinctive is structural: a building commissioned as a design object, a sleeping unit engineered down to a few cubic metres, a hotel that happens also to hold a licensed gaming floor, a structure carved out of snow that will not exist in June. Nothing is included because it is expensive, and nothing is excluded because it is not.

Coverage is deliberately geo-neutral. Entries sit next to each other from Paris, Tokyo, Austin, Miami, New York, Gstaad and several Canadian cities, and the index does not pretend to speak as a local anywhere. What each entry offers is a plain description of the property and a short set of facts that are true to its character.

Neynerlux does not take bookings, does not hold reservations and does not act as an agent for any property. It carries no reviews, no star ratings and no scores, because a three-paragraph description is more useful than a number. Every write-up is prose, written to be read once and remembered.