How the guide works
Celestial Guide covers eighteen hotels in four categories. This page explains how they were chosen, what was used to describe them, what the site deliberately leaves out and how to tell us that something is wrong.
How the hotels were chosen
The four categories came first: houses built around compact sleeping cabins, large Canadian resorts, winter houses in cold places, and hotels set inside older buildings. Within each category the aim was variety of place and of building, not a shortlist of favourites. Nothing was included or excluded in exchange for anything.
Which sources are used
Each entry starts from the hotel's own published pages, then draws on maps, municipal and heritage material, and independent writing where it exists. Where two sources disagree, the sentence is rewritten so that it stays true without the disputed part. Where a group runs several addresses, the address described is named in the entry.
What is not here
There are no prices, no room counts, no stars, no marks out of anything and no booking links. There is no advertising and no paid placement. The site does not order the hotels or say which one is preferable, because the sensible answer depends on where you are going and why. Photographs carry captions, not slogans.
Telling us about an error
Errors are corrected as soon as they are confirmed against a source, and the month on each entry moves when the entry is read through again. If a house has closed, moved or changed hands, or if a detail here does not describe what you found, write to us through the contact page.