Sea, sun, warm sandy beaches ... Monotonous tires, is not it? The same opinion came from the creators of the Icehotel, who decided that luxury rest could take place anywhere - even beyond the Arctic Circle. The owners of Icehotel can safely say that their creation is the largest and probably the only hotel in the world completely built of snow and ice. Today this ice colossus covers an area of more than 4 thousand square meters. m, its construction takes 3 thousand tons of ice and 30 thousand cubic meters of snow. In late October, dozens of artists and builders come to the bank of the Thorn River, where the Icehotel is located. By mid-December, after the walls were erected, the artists began to work on the interior decoration. Ice windows, doors, tables, beds, chairs, lamps and decorative figurines - who else can boast that all the objects in his house are made of environmentally friendly, hypoallergenic material? It is a pity that at the end of April all this splendor comes to an end, and the water returns to its original state of aggregation - a frivolous and fluid substance. According to its design, the Icehotel is not too different from its southern "brethren": there are rooms for guests, a cinema (with a screen made of ice), an exhibition hall (of course, for "ice art"), an Absolute bar that has acquired the world fame (among its visitors - the royal couple of Sweden, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and many other "star" person). Probably, before the creation of the Icehotel, no designer in the world (and even more so an architect) did not seriously think about the aesthetic value of ice as a building material. Translucent cold walls, furniture, accessories, shimmering with a mysterious light, produce so majestic, if not mystical, the impression that the boy Kai from Andersen’s fairy tale involuntarily comes to mind, without hesitation, exchanged a garden with live roses for sparkling pieces of ice. The "room" temperature in the Icehotel varies from -4 ° to -8 ° C, depending on the temperature outside (average -40 ° C), so among fans of extremely exotic holidays visiting the hotel, only a third decide to spend the night here. The hotel has 47 rooms, among them 15 suites. Beds made of ice blocks are covered with reindeer skins, all guests are provided with sleeping bags with electric heating, and the next morning a cup of hot lingonberry juice is fed directly into the bed. Probably, if the Snow Queen had stayed here, she would have preferred ice cream ...
Passing the gallery 
