Top tips for staying warm in our Ice Hotels
- Equip yourself with sports underwear (synthetic materials) and a fleece mid layer garment.
- Wool is good for wearing as a jumper during the day rather than at night.
- You can place your jacket between a sleeping bag and a mattress so it remains warm and dry over the night.
An ice hotel in Swedish LaplandIn the northern Swedish town of Jukkasjärvi, 124 miles from the Arctic Circle, stands the artfully-built Icehotel. It's considered the world's first and largest snow hotel and is made every year anew from the river of Swedish Lapland the “Torne älv”.
Rates run from about $200 CAD (or around $150 USD) per night, per person plus taxes.
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Built using 500 tons of ice and 40,000 tons of snow, Hôtel de Glace is the only ice hotel in North America.
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There are no bathrooms (except the Deluxe Suites) or storage in the Ice rooms or Art suites. These facilities are housed in a heated service building, where you also keep your belongings during the night.
Every year, Lapland erects a hotel made of ice in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. And every year, when the weather turns warmer, the IceHotel melts back into where it originated: the Torne River. Annually, the hotel hosts approximately 60,000 guests before it closes in mid-April.
To give you an idea of prices, rates for the cheapest 'cold' doubles at the original Icehotel – known as 'ice rooms' – start at around 4,000 SEK per night. Proper art suites, the carefully sculpted rooms you've seen in the glossy travel magazines (pictures here), begin at around 5,700 SEK.
Cool lodgings: the top 5 ice hotels in the world
- Kirkenes Snowhotel – Sor-Varanger, Norway.
- Snow Village – Kittilä, Finland.
- ICEHOTEL – Jukkasjarvi, Sweden.
- Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel, Alta, Norway.
- Hôtel de Glace – Quebec city, Canada.
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The most known is, of course, the destination and master brand, Icehotel. The seasonal winter resort expanded in 2016 with the opening of Icehotel 365, run on solar power to keep –5 C all year.
