What counts as a poor day here
Not a season, and not a warning. A poor day, for these purposes, is any day on which the outdoor half of a hotel stops being usable: the yard, the terrace, the roof, the walk along the water. The question is never how unpleasant it was outside, only what the house did with the hours instead.
Where the material comes from
Hotel and operator sites, maps, architectural and press descriptions of the buildings, and published accounts of what the public parts of each house contain. Where a claim could not be supported it was rewritten until it could, or left out. Nothing here is written from guesswork about a building nobody has described.
What is not on this site
- No forecasts, temperatures, rainfall figures or statistics, and no seasons recommended over other seasons.
- No prices, categories, star ratings, reviews or bookings, and no affiliate links.
- No invented faults. A part of a house that closes in poor weather is a property of the building, not a complaint about it.
- Closures are always stated as possible rather than certain, because they depend on conditions and on the hotel.
Three things worth flagging
Sources place Beana Laponia at Meltaus, near Rovaniemi. At Santa’s Hotel Rudolf, reception, breakfast and restaurant service sit in another house of the same chain a few streets away. For Book and Bed Tokyo Ikebukuro, accounts of whether this particular address is taking guests disagree, so the entry says so rather than guessing.
Corrections
If a description here has fallen out of date, or was wrong to begin with, write and say which entry and what changed. Corrections are made to the text rather than appended to it.