New Photos – The Ice Hotel

A trip to the North of Scandinavia is not complete without a trip to the Ice Hotel.  Although expensive to stay, a walk around the village is free and a tour is not too expensive either.  It is an amazing and truly unusual place.  With hundreds of sculptures and a giant hotel that can house hundreds of visitors each night…a truly impressive feat that is built over and over again each winter.

Artists from all over the world come each year to show off their skills by creating individual themes for each room.  The process of building the hotel takes months and has become a mecca for tourists around the world.  So enjoy the photos although 6 months overdue:)

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Just in case you forgot.Also, just in case, they have some of this here.Sculptures are everywhere, hundreds and hundreds of them.Three long hallways lead you to the sculpted rooms.Elegant but a little coldThe ice sculptures have to do something to keep warm out there.There are so many rooms you can hardly see them all in one day.How do you think they get the lights in there?It is hard to imagine how they even do this.The hotel was still being built when we were there in December.It is a place like no other on earthArtists come from all over the world to carve here and bring styles from their homelandsSome rooms are even two stories tall, completely ice!Anything you can imagine is made of ice hereEvery night, each of these rooms are booked.The ice is this blue, no effectsAnd MoreIce WindowIce leavesWavy IceKiwi IceSome rooms take months to build and are gone each year.More Kiwi IceIce ShroomsIce DragonIced TWBRIce Bar EntryIce BarThe Original IceBarNo Drinks for Bouey at $30 eachIce AbsolutIce MarkMidday in the Polar Night - This is the brightest it gets.Outside of the IceBarThe Ice hotel has a side business of selling high quality ice to clientele around the world.From Snowmobiling to Dogsledding, there is tons to do here, but it is not cheap!