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Somebody Photographed Prague's Hotels Address by Address
889 pictures on 897 Czech rows, and the filenames encode the addresses. Twelve of Prague's hotel buildings stand on a single six-lane road.
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Where to go, where to stay, and what the guidebooks leave out.
DestinationsGermany's North Sea Islands: 366 Properties, and 277 of Them Are on Juist
366 island properties, 331 photographed. But Norderney, Langeoog, Föhr and Amrum have none at all, and Juist alone carries 277 of them — with 2,542 photographs.
ExploreHotel Data Desk · 17 August 202610 min
Hotel GuidesSwitzerland’s Hotel Stars: 60% of the Register Carries None
3,026 of Switzerland’s 5,073 register entries carry no star grade. Among hotels alone it is 40% — and all 395 superior hotels are invisible to a star filter.
ExploreHotel Data Desk · 17 August 202611 min
DestinationsDevon and Cornwall: 673 Hotel Buildings, 643 Photographs, and Almost Nothing Else
673 properties across the English south-west, 643 of them photographed — and no star rating, no telephone number and no facility record anywhere in the set.
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Travel TipsGermany's Motorhome Pitches: All 781 We Hold, and What They Actually Tell You
781 Wohnmobilstellplätze, 559 with a picture, 715 with a phone number — and the count runs from 527 to 781 depending on which field of the register you believe.
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Kaltern Has 306 Places to Stay, and 107 of Them Are Working Farms
107 of Kaltern's 306 registered stays are farms, and South Tyrol's flower grade marks every one. The higher the hamlet, the likelier a farm.
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DestinationsFifty-Two Hotels in One Barcelona Neighbourhood, All Photographed
52 hotel buildings in the Dreta de l'Eixample, every one photographed, 39 of them by the same person — the densest hotel label in our Spanish catalogue.
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Travel TipsGermany's Campsites: 941 Rows, 846 Places
941 campsite records and 489 pictures — but only 846 distinct places, 227 double as motorhome pitches, and the DTV star grade lives in the name, not in a field.
ExploreHotel Data Desk · 17 August 202610 min
CultureMiami Beach Has 287 Hotel Buildings on Record. The Pictures Are Postcards.
287 Miami Beach hotel buildings, every one with a picture — but 258 of those pictures predate 1970 and the median year is 1945. What the archive really shows.
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Hotel Guides1,413 German Stays Have a Sauna — and 185 Put It Inside the Flat
1,413 German stays record a sauna; 185 put it in the room. Those 185 have one telephone number between them — and come from just three postcode regions.
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Travel TipsFrance's Accessibility Mark Is All or Nothing: 259 of 339 Hold All Four
339 French stays hold a Tourisme & Handicap mark and 259 hold all four. But 37 lack the mobility mark — the one travellers assume is the baseline.
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Destinations854 Japanese Hotels, 787 Photographs, and a Place-Name Problem
Japan’s hotel records are 92% photographed and nearly unusable by place name: 32 share the name Chūō-ku across six cities, from Kumamoto to Sapporo.
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