A mind-boggling ice sculpture
Cosmic particles from outer space, drawn to the pole by the planet’s magnetism? Great curtains of multi-coloured lights, dancing like spectres in the night sky? If you pride yourself on being something of a traveller and a connoisseur of destinations, you simply have to experience the Northern Lights.
Similarly, you have to stay – at least once – in the Ice Hotel. Forget igloos, this is a fantastical sculpture, carved from ice into a winter palace like no other. Expect crystalline chandeliers and ornate carved doorways leading to bedrooms with ice sculptures and ice murals on the walls. This is an art project on a grand scale and – at -5ºC – as ephemeral as temperature itself. And it includes a very chilled bar serving cool cocktails, wine and cold beer. Now that’s hot!
The Ice Hotel, Swedish Lapland
The Ice Hotel, at glance
- Two unforgettable experiences – watching the Northern Lights and sleeping at -5ºC
- Choice of individual, curtained rooms and suites
- Ice block beds on wooden bases, with reindeer skin mattresses
- Double or single sleeping bags and warm clothes, hats and gloves provided
- Bathrooms and sauna in the adjacent warm rooms
- Two restaurants – one traditional and the other modern – also in warm rooms
For leisure and pleasure
- Excursions to see the Northern Lights
- Dog sledding and snowmobiling
- River rafting and canoeing
- Skiing and winter sports
- Ice driving and sculpting
- Hunting and fishing
- Moose, reindeer and horse trekking
- All dependent on season
