Every house has a name. Every name came from somewhere.
A name is the shortest thing a place ever tells you.
Two of us have kept this guide since the spring of twenty twenty-one, and we read hotels the way other people read street signs. We take an origin only where somebody has already published one, and we say so when nobody has. The method is set out on Where Names Come From.
Eighteen hotels, and eighteen answers to the same short question.