Nineteen hotels.
One form for all of them.
Same four boxes for every hotel here, and nothing beyond them. Four fields, one line above them and one date below. Nothing is added when more is known about a hotel, because the shared shape is what makes the nineteen comparable.
What stands on the ground: the building, its age, how it is put together and what shows from outside.
How the building works today as a hotel: rooms, cabins, capsules, halls, described physically.
What lies next to it: the street, the water, the terminal, the slope, the village.
The practical thing to settle before you travel: the route, the season, the transfer, the crossing.
The contact sheet
The form stays the same on purpose. When each hotel answers the same four questions, the differences between them stop being a matter of tone and start being a matter of fact. A capsule floor in Osaka and a villa outside Verona are hard to compare through two essays written differently. Through one shared box, headed ON SITE, they can be read side by side in a minute.
What each of the four fields holds, and what it never holds, is set out on The Record.