How This Works

Buildings were chosen for the structure rather than the stay. A house qualifies if it is made of frozen material, if it carried another function before rooms were fitted into it, if the bed is an enclosed berth instead of a room, or if it belongs to a large Canadian resort. Nothing was chosen for being popular.

The sources are the operators' own published material, tourism boards, municipal and regional records, and press coverage where it can be checked against one of those. Where a claim appears only once and cannot be confirmed elsewhere, the page says so in plain terms or leaves the claim out entirely.

The guide leaves out figures of every sort: no sums, no marks out of five, no categories, no counts of rooms, no reader comments. There are no booking buttons and no paid links anywhere on the site. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no building is measured against another.

The winter part needs reading differently from the rest. Those buildings are cut again from new material every year, so the halls described on a page belong to one season and will not be repeated. Opening and closing dates move with the weather and are never promised here; the operator is the only source for them.

The same keys appear on every building page. Original use says what the structure was made for, or, for a winter building, that it is raised again each season. Setting places it in one line. Verified gives the month and year when the sources behind the page were last read.

Errors are worth reporting and are corrected as soon as they are confirmed. Write to us through the address on the contact page, with the page address and the line that is wrong.