Observed arrival · 2026-11-04
Not The Type’s two-score hotel reviews
Dorian Takahashi publishes luxury hotel reviews with a separate score for how staff treated him, alongside lessons from running a trading-card business.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
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- For
- Luxury hotel readers and trading-card shop owners
- Worth noticing
- Hotel entries give separate overall and treatment scores; the Osaka and Paris stays show how those ratings can diverge.
Field notes
Hotel entries pair a destination and month with an overall rating and a separate treatment score. Business notes describe a software setup that links inventory across stores, Shopify, and eBay, plus graded-card intake with human-approved pricing. The homepage also offers consulting and says a book is in progress; its Osaka update says the store is due to open the following week.
Observed signals
Read the marks
Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade
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