Experience the ICEHOTEL

Location: Jukkasjärvi, Lapland, Norrbotten,

The winter season 2010/2011 will be the twenty-first in order of ICEHOTEL. A more than twenty-year journey from an igloo of 60 square meters to the world's largest hotel made of ice and snow of about 5500 square meters. The story of ICEHOTEL is a fairy tale come true.

The flowing Torne River is the origin and artery. From the river lends ICEHOTEL its ice every early spring, keep it cool in summer and re-create the ICEHOTEL as soon as the frost permits. It is here, on the shore in the village Jukkasjärvi that our story börjar.Sedan 70th century, the company Jukkas (Today ICEHOTEL) engaged in tourist activities in the area. For many years the focus was on the summer and the amazing scenery as the midnight sun kingdom has to offer. We included the first and the largest in Europe with white water rafting. But during the dark winter months, rested the river and the people in the district.

At the end of the 80s, they decided to turn disadvantage to advantage. To see the winter as an asset and to create experiences of the natural materials that were available - cold,
darkness, ice, snow and northern lights.
Inspired by the visiting Japanese artists such as sculpted in ice gave in 1990 in the artist Jannot Derid to hold exhibition in a specially built igloo built up in the middle of the Torne River. The 60 square meter building was named the Arctic Hall. Curious people flocked to get a look at the madness.
One night, stayed a couple of foreign guests in the cylinder-shaped igloo. They slept in sleeping bags on reindeer hides widespread. Enthusiastic they told about a fantastic experience which, in their testimony was unprecedented. The idea for the ICEHOTEL was born.

Photo: photobigben.com

Since then much has happened. Today ICEHOTEL is world famous for its unique concept, stunning art and his unique experiences. Marveled visitor becomes like a child again in the high snisvalven. Many are those who have returned home and felt that they had just been part of a fairy tale.

Torne River in Swedish Lapland has come to a halt and freeze slowly. ICEHOTEL will, for the twentieth consecutive year, as in the little village Jukkasjärvi. Each year erected the hotel with a twist. Thanks to visiting artists and creators from around the globe ICEHOTEL is an equally unique place to visit year after year. It is a parenthesis in time you can go to any lengths to get to.

ICEHOTEL is innovation and modern design cross-fertilized with a thorough knowledge of architecture. It is a project with high aspirations that leaves no one indifferent. The creation of snow and ice is a new art form that gives permission to explore, experiment and go the whole hog. Be inspired by itself take place in the arts.

Photo: photobigben.com, Artist / s: Javier Opazo & José Vazquez Toro

Staying at ICEHOTEL is an experience that can not be compared to any other hotel stay - a must for the modern explorer.
When the outdoor temperature falls, meets the warm air in the ICEHOTEL you as soon as you step through the doors covered with reindeer skins. It never gets colder than -5 ° C in here, no matter how cold it is outside. Before crawling into bed, you wear warm underwear, pulls down his cap over his ears and then slip into a comfortable sleeping bag on a bed made up of blocks of ice, a thick mattress and reindeer skins.

Image: Icehotellets church Photo: photobigben.com
Artist / s: Cindy Berg, Marjolein Vonk, Jan Willem van der Schoot and Marinus Vroom
Ice church: Linnea Borealis

The night is spent, of course best with the one closest to you. Daytime ICEHOTEL is open to the public and anyone can join a guided tour through the colonnade, suites and isrummen. ICEHOTEL 2009/2010 will have 62 rooms and occupy an area of ​​5500 square meters. The building material, 21 500 cubic meters of snow and 900 tons of ice, borrowed from nature.
From 10 December until April 18 kept the hotel open, before the loan is returned and the ICEHOTEL once again transformed into the world's most modern ruin.

Do not miss a visit to ABSOLUT ICEBAR Jukkasjärvi when you are in the neighborhood. About a hundred guests and locals alike gather to digest the impressions of the encounter with snow and ice.

Photo: Åke Larsson and Arne Bergh

The drink, you get "in the rocks," not "on the rocks" and the atmosphere is highly international. Take advantage of the wide range of activities that ICEHOTEL offers, eat well in any of the restaurants and explore the unique sub-arctic environment in Jukkasjärvi.

Come along on a snowmobile, reindeer and dog sled safaris with experienced guides. Be amazed by the northern lights and winter light, preferably slumped in a sauna barrel full of hot steaming water that makes your hair swatches to form small icicles in the face of the clear air.

Photo: Hans Olof Utsi
Contact:
Book online or
beat the always accommodating reservations department a signal:
0980-668 the 00th