Absolut Icebar in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden (December, 2005).

An ice hotel is a temporary hotel made up entirely of snow and sculpted blocks of ice. They are promoted by their sponsors and have special features for travelers who are interested in novelties and unusual environments, and thus are in the class of destination hotels. Their lobbies are often filled with ice sculptures, and food and beverages are specially chosen for the circumstances. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3072x2048, 2465 KB) en: The Ice Hotel in Sweden Author: Stephan Herz (User:Stephan_Herz) Date: 20005-12-29 Notes:The Ice Hotel near the village of Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden de: Eishotel in Schweden Autor: Stephan Herz (User:Stephan_Herz) Datum: 20005... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3072x2048, 2465 KB) en: The Ice Hotel in Sweden Author: Stephan Herz (User:Stephan_Herz) Date: 20005-12-29 Notes:The Ice Hotel near the village of Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden de: Eishotel in Schweden Autor: Stephan Herz (User:Stephan_Herz) Datum: 20005... Jukkasjärvi is a town in Swedish Lapland in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, northern Sweden. ... For other uses, see Hotel (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Snow (disambiguation). ... This article is about water ice. ... Historic Kviknes destination hotel in Norway A destination hotel is a place of lodging whose inherent location and amenities attract visitors regardless of the route needed to arrive or the areawide features of interest. ... Ice sculpting on the streets of Gamla Stan, Stockholm Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. ...

All of the ice hotels are reconstructed every year, and are dependent upon constant sub-zero temperatures during construction and operation. The walls, fixtures, and fittings are made entirely of ice, and are held together using a substance known as snice, which takes the place of mortar in a traditional brick-built hotel.

Norway

Kirkenes Snow Hotel

Kirkenes Snow Hotel is situated in the eastmost town of Norway, close to the Norwegian-Russian border. The hotel had its first season during winter 2006/2007. This year the hotel has 20 rooms and the largest snow dome in Norway (8 meter high and 12 meter in diameter). All the rooms are individually decorated by the ice artists from Finland and Japan. The west Snow Hall is decorated by a local sculpture Arild Wara. A night in a snow hotel is combined with a special dinner prepared on an open fire, the visitors can also get hot sauna before or after staying at the hotel. There is also a reindeer park and a husky farm in the hotel area.

Ice Lodge

The Ice Lodge is one of the largest in Norway and part of the Bjorligard Hotel. It has a longer season than most ice hotels because of its altitude (1,250 meters above sea level). For other uses, see Hotel (disambiguation). ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ...

Alta Igloo Hotel

The Alta Igloo ice hotel has been rebuilt yearly since 2000. It is Europe’s northernmost ice hotel, as it is located in the Finnmark region and is approximately 250km from North Cape. The 2000 square metre hotel has 30 rooms, including 2 suites and it is decorated with numerous ice sculptures and ice furnishings, including lighting systems which enhance the different types of crystalline formations. Besides the bedrooms the hotel also contains an ice chapel, ice gallery and ice bar where drinks are served in glasses made of ice. The Alta Igloo Hotel has a changing theme every year. In 2004, it was a Viking theme, in 2005, Norwegian fairytales, and in 2006, the theme was wild animals of the region. The guests use sleeping bags that sit ontop of reindeer hides. County Finnmark District Municipality NO-2012 Administrative centre Alta Mayor (2003) Geir Ove Bakken (Ap) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 7 3,849 km² 3,651 km² 1. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... County NO-20 Region Nord-Norge Administrative centre Vadsø County mayor   Area  - Total  - Percentage Ranked 1 48,618 km² 15. ... North Cape is the name of several capes: North Cape is a cape in Prince Edward Island, Canada North Cape is a cape in northern New Zealand North Cape is a cape in northern Norway, also known as Nordkapp The North Cape was a barge which ran aground in Rhode... Caribou redirects here. ...

Sweden

ICEHOTEL in Sweden

The ice hotel near the village of Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden was the world's first ice hotel. In 1989, Japanese ice artists visited the area and created an exhibition of ice art. In Spring 1990, French artist Jannot Derid held an exhibition in a cylinder-shaped igloo in the area. One night there were no rooms available in the town, so some of the visitors asked for permission to spend the night in the exhibition hall. They slept in sleeping bags on top of reindeer skin - the first guests of the "hotel." Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 363 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Ice hotel ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 363 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Ice hotel ... Kiruna View from just outside Kiruna, with European route E10 left to LuleÃ¥ and right to Narvik, Norway. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Igloo An igloo (Inuit language: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒡᓗ, house, plural: iglooit or igluit, but in English commonly igloos), translated sometimes as snowhouse, is a shelter constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome. ... A sleeping bag is a protective bag for a person to sleep in, essentially a blanket that can be closed with a zipper or similar means, and functions as a bed in situations where it is impractical to carry around a full bed. ...

The entire hotel is made completely out of ice blocks taken from the Torne River - even the glasses in the bar are made of ice. The hotel has more than 80 rooms and suites, a bar, reception area and church. The hotel only exists between December and April. Each room is unique and the architecture of the hotel is changed each year, as it is rebuilt from scratch. The Torne River (Finnish: Tornionjoki, Swedish: Torne älv, Torneälven, Northern Sami: Duortneseatnu, Meankieli: Tornionväyla), is a river on the border between Sweden and Finland. ...

Canada

Ice Hotel Chapel, Quebec (February, 2006).

Same Chapel from afar.

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. It had 22 beds when it first opened in 2000. In its last iteration it had 85 beds, all made of ice but lined with deer furs and covered with mattresses and Arctic sleeping bags. Only the bathrooms are heated, in a separate insulated structure. The hotel is usually made (the architecture and size may vary from season to season) with 5000 tons of sculpted ice and 15000 tons of snow, forming arches over rooms with 16 foot (5 m) and larger and higher spaces for one art galleries a N'Ice Club, a Ice Café, a slide of 60 feet and a chapel where weddings are celebrated. The walls are more than 4 feet (1.2 m) thick on average. All of the furniture is made of ice. In addition to using ice glasses as in the Kiruna ice hotel, the bar (and room service) also serves cold cuts on ice plates. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 793 KB) Summary self authored Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 793 KB) Summary self authored Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 859 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ice hotel User... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 859 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ice hotel User... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Ville de Québec, Québec, Canada Location. ... North American redirects here. ... This article is about the ruminent animal. ... This article is about building architecture. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ... A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ...

Finland

The Mammut Snow Hotel is not an ice hotel per se as it is made entirely of snow. Many of its furnishings and its decorations, such as the ice sculptures, are made of ice. It is located within the walls of the SnowCastle of Kemi, which is the biggest snow castle in the world. It includes The Mammut Snow Hotel, The Castle Courtyard, The Snow Restaurant and a chapel for weddings, etc. SnowCastle in 2006 Snow Restaurant The SnowCastle of Kemi is the biggest snow castle in the world. ...

There are ice decorations also in Lainio Snow Hotel (near Ylläs and Levi, Finland). Ylläs from Äkäslompolo Ylläs, or in Finnish Yllästunturi, is a 718 m high fell in Finland, Lapland. ... Levi is a town in Finnish Lapland most notable as a winter tourist destination. ...

Romania

In 2006, the first ice hotel in Eastern Europe was built at Bâlea Lake (Romania), deep in the Făgăraş Mountains, at an altitude of 2034 m. It also features many attractions like bob-sledding and ice fishing, and can accommodate over 150 people per night. Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Statistical regions of Europe as delineated by the United Nations (UN definition of Eastern Europe marked red):  Northern Europe  Western Europe  Eastern Europe  Southern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current borders: Russia (dark orange), other countries formerly part of the USSR... The Bâlea Lake (IPA: ) is a glacier lake situated at 2034 m of altitude in the FăgăraÅŸ Mountains, in central Romania, in Sibiu County. ... The FăgăraÅŸ Mountains viewed from the train FăgăraÅŸ Mountains are the highest mountains of the Southern Carpathians, in Romania. ...

See also

• Ice palace

An ice palace or ice castle is a castle-like structure made of blocks of ice. ...

External links

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Ice hotel

• [http://www.kirkenessnowhotel.com/ Snow Hotel, Kirkenes, Norway
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• Ice Lodge, Bjorli, within the Dovre-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway
• Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden
• Ice Hotel, Quebec, Canada
• Kemi SnowCastle, Lapland, Finland
• Lainio Snow & Ice Hotel, Lapland, Finland
• Moore, Robbie. "Designing An Icehotel". Specifier Magazine, Issue 78, 2007.
• Norwegian ice sculptor Arild Wara's gallery[[sv:Ishotellet i Jukkasjärvi]