Every hotel has a room
that was never meant for you

This guide reads eighteen hotels and resorts through one question: what does the house keep for its guests, and in which part of the building does it keep it. Ski rooms, cellars, drying rooms, linen shelves, luggage floors and sheds by the water.

Half of a good house is the room you never see.

A store tells you what a house expects of its guests. A cellar means one kind of evening, a drying room means another, and a luggage floor means people who arrive with everything they own. We read the working rooms because they were planned before anything decorative was, and they are honest about what happens here. What is kept here sets out the rules we follow.

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