ICE ART ALL YEAR ROUNDIcehotel 365 is open all summer and invites you to a night on ice. The specially designed building allows it to be winter indoors and summer outdoors.
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It is an experience for life to spend a night in a cold room here! I would recommend it to all my friends. The tour of the hotel to watch all the beautiful ice sculptures is great. Be prepared that you will keep your clothes in a locker while you accomodate the cold room.
You are given access to your room at 6 pm, but the heated service building is staffed and open 24 hours, this is where you store your belongings, collect your sleeping bag and use the bathroom, shower and sauna.
Every winter around 50,000 guests visit us to experience Icehotel during wintertime, and many of the guests hope to spot the northern lights at the same time. But few guests knows that there is a chance to see the northern lights and sleep at Icehotel from as early as August.
The skeleton of the hotel is made of steel and concrete and is covered with 2,000 square metres of insulation. The roof has 20-centimetre insulation to protect the ice from melting in summers. The suites of Ice Hotel 365 have art-exhibition during day time and they make a hotel at night time.
The visual stimulation you get inside the hotel is incredible, but the snow and ice also create experiences for other senses, too. Snow and ice absorb sound, so when in you're in your room at night, wrapped in the sleeping bag, you will experience absolute silence like none other.
In the morning hot lingonberry juice will be served for all guests staying in ice rooms and suites – then a sauna session and hot shower awaits before breakfast. Your luggage is stored in the luggage storage room prior to your overnight stay.
Ice hotels are only available at certain months in the year, which might not be convenient for those with a hectic schedule. The interiors of the hotels are also rather chilly, so you definitely need to enjoy cold temperatures and not be looking to cosy up or go sunbathing!
Icehotel | Jukkasjarvi, SwedenOf all of the ice hotels around the world, perhaps the most well-known is Sweden's Icehotel. Dubbed the world's first and largest hotel built of snow and ice, Icehotel has been welcoming visitors for over 30 years.