A salon for the overnight guest

Why a salon, and why hotels

Plenty of writing about casino resorts lingers on chandeliers and chips, then mentions the bedroom in a footnote. Our salon reverses the proportions. Ten resorts are weighed here as places to wake up in, to dine in and to wander out from; buildings, rooms, surroundings and day trips get the ink, and the gaming floor gets almost none of it.

Three refusals

• Nothing to play. Wagers, prize draws and free-to-play games have no place anywhere on franceslotlottery.com.
• Nothing to book. Reservations happen on hotel websites, and this salon never takes a cut of one.
• Nothing owed. Not one featured property or owner holds a contract, sponsorship or side arrangement with us.

Where the notes come from

Our sources are what resorts say about themselves, published reporting on their design and districts, and a patient study of each destination's map. Notes run short by design and close with a single line naming the guest most likely to enjoy the place. For the full reasoning, see how the order is built.

Found a stale detail?

Hotels quietly rename bars, mothball towers and change flags. If anything on these pages has fallen behind, the contact page reaches the editors directly. Each tip is set against the property's own published information before a note is amended.