Have you ever thought of staying in a slightly different hotel for your next vacation? How about sleeping on ice and a bit of snow?
There are more than 2 Ice hotels to date, including one in Sweden , another outside Quebec City, Alta Igloo Hotel, Norway’s only hotel made entirely on ice. You can see their beautiful photos in countless magazines, often as backdrops for winter fashion photographs. The ice hotel near the village of Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden was the world’s first ice hotel. The Ice Hotel, first constructed in the late 1980’s, is built and re-built each winter in Jukkasjarvi, located about 120 miles north of the Artic Circle. Each year, the ice hotel has a different design, usually spreading over a space of about 53,700 feet. Ice hotels are hotels built anew from ice and snow each year. About 10 km east of Québec City, and within the grounds of the Duchesnay winter resort, the first and unique Ice Hotel in North America is erected each January.
Hotel amenities include unique ice sculptures and artwork, snowmobile rides, dogs lading, ice fishing, snow sculpture building, walking trails, skiing, ice skating, snow slides, outdoor hot tub, sauna, gift shop, heated dressing rooms and bathrooms adjacent to the hotel, two exhibition rooms, an ice chapel, fireplaces, live entertainment, nightclub, multilingual staff, and a 24-hour front desk. The Sweden Ice Hotel is open for business beginning in December (depending on the weather) and ending in March.
Simple rooms start at about $169 with current exchange rates and go up to $800 for a package that also includes an ice sculpting class and airport transfer. The Ice Hotel Sweden also features a number of other kinds of rooms, including a sauna, a reception hall, a multimedia theatre and an ice chapel for weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies. Booking a night in the Ice Hotel Québec is easy, though for some of the more elaborate rooms, people do it a year in advance.
Alta Igloo hotel has room for around 80 persons, an ice bar and several lounges. Alta Igloo Hotel is Norway?s largest and the world?s northernmost ice hotel. Apart from its 80 beds the Alta Igloo Hotel houses suites, an ice gallery, an ice-bar, an ice chapel and several lounges.
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