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LIST: IGLOOS & ICE-HOTELS
These are ice hotels and resorts with igloo accommodation worldwide. | |||||
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| Alta Igloo Hotel | Definitely one of the most elaborate ice hotels, the Alta is located high up in the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway. It has twenty bedrooms, lounge areas, a bar and a chapel. | ||||
| Aurora Ice Museum | Intended to be the world's only 'year-round' ice hotel, the Aurora Ice Hotel in Chena Hot Spring, Fairbanks, Alaska, came to a sticky end in summer 2004 when hot weather overpowered the refrigeration units and styrofoam panels that were supposed to keep it intact. Its owner, Bernie Karl, re-built it over the winter and it re-opened on 26 Feb 05. When it first opened in Dec 03 with six bedrooms, a bar, and a wedding gazebo, a ruling by the local fire authority that it didn't meet hotel fire regs caused much hilarity in the local press. The deadlock-breaking compromise was a fire extinguisher and smoke detector in each room. That's why this time it is being called a 'museum' not a 'hotel'. The building itself is a solid structure built with steel beams and already coated with insulation in hopes of keeping last year’s meltdown from occurring. Several engineers, architects and refrigeration specialists have been designing a cooling system to help keep the structure up on a year-round basis. If they are successful, it will be the only ice structure of its type in the world. The 134 foot long by 42 foot wide building has four ice galleries with ice beds and a small table and stools covered with reindeer hides, plus, of course, the obligatory Ice Bar. |
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| Hotel Arctic | Stay in one of five luxury (heated) aluminium igloos overlooking the sea in a remote part of Greenland 250 km north of the Arctic Circle. You want me to be more specific? OK, you'll find Hotel Arctic at 69º 14' 40" North, 051º 03' 44" West. You simply don't get much more 'away from it all' than here! | ||||
| Hotel Igloo Village | Stylish ice igloo hotel in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland | ||||
| Ice Hotel |  Located in Swedish Lapland, this is the original 'Ice Hotel' and the one that most people refer to when talking about ice hotels. It features in all the winter activity brochures to Lapland. It is re-built each year (06/07 is its 17th re-incarnation) and is getting bigger and more glamorous all the time. Highlights are the famous Absolut Ice Bar, an exhibition hall, a wedding chapel, and adjacent, a replica of Shakespeare's 'Globe Theatre' (like the one in London). |
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| Ice Hotel - Quebec | AKA 'Hotel du Glace', Canada's version of the Swedish Ice Hotel (above) now (2006) in its 6th season. It has over thirty bedrooms (19 rooms & 13 suites), an Absolut Ice Bar, a wedding chapel, cinema, and exhibition hall/lobby area. Its 19 rooms and 13 suites are entirely constructed from ice each December to be ready for a January opening. But the season is a short one. It is closed again in April. | ||||
| Iglu Dorf | German company (with English speakers) who from 1996 have been building igloo villages (dorfs) for skiers in the Swiss resorts of Scuol and Zermatt (and the Iglu Bar in Davos). Now they've expanded and there are also dorfs in Engelberg & Gstaad and the German resort of Zugspitze (Garmisch-Partenkirchen). | ||||
| Igloo Village, Kakslauttanen | Twenty igloos, an Ice Bar, an Ice Chapel and a gallery. There's also a heated glass igloo where you can lie awake watching the northern lights. The Finnish tour operator Wild & Free organises trips there. | ||||
| Kanata Igloo Village | In the French Alpine resort of Orcieres 1850, on the edge of the national park of Les Ecrins, the igloo village of Kanata is accessible from the ski lift of Rocherousse. It is mostly a place to visit, holding exhibitions and where you can learn how to build your own igloo and learn about the mountains. For the adventurous, it is possible to spend the night including a 'full moon' evening with aperitif, meal in a mountain refuge, a night in an igloo with breakfast at the refuge and return to the resort for 54€. Special equipment is provided. | ||||
| Kemi Snowcastle | The fortress walls of the SnowCastle of Kemi on the northern coast of the Gulf of Bothnia (Finnish Lapland) enclose an exhibition area, the Mammut Snow Hotel with 15 stylish rooms, a restaurant (seats are covered with reindeer fur) and a chapel. The Finnish tour operator Wild & Free organises trips there. | ||||
| Lainio Snow Village | Lainio Snow Village in Finnish Lapland near Levi, has an ice bar, a maze and a snow hotel with seven igloo shaped rooms. It has been operating since 2000. The Finnish tour operator Wild & Free organises trips there. | ||||
| Village Igloo | Overnight experience in an igloo just outside Quebec City, Canada. The igloo is comfortable but basic, but there's a heated lodge on site with a restaurant, showers and toilets! | ||||
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| Research Tips: | * | Independent travel agency, Robert Broad Travel, is now specialising in icehotel holidays in Canada and Sweden under the brand, Icehotels.co.uk (0845 003 22 11). |
| * | Unusual Hotels of the World is a collection of 120 bizarre and unusual places to stay around the world including igloos and ice hotels, but also treehouses, underwater lodges, & caves, which you can book online. | |
| * | In 2006 a new 8-room ice hotel was built beside Balea Lac in Romania's Carpathian mountains. Sadly no website. | |
| * | The Ice Palace Hotel - "first ice hotel on Canada's West Coast" - failed to open as planned in December 2005 at Sun Peaks Resort in British Columbia. The developers were looking for another site for the 06/07 season. |
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