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A frozen fairytale

Advantages: a magical experiance
Disadvantages: expensive and cold

...a hotel made entirely from ice and snow. I had read about this hotel and seen it featured on a holiday programme and was really keen to see it for myself. My husband took little persuading so we booked our trip. Here are my thoughts. Should you be in a position to go either for a day trip, or to actually stay as a guest, I hope this review will help. Getting there. ***************** We were staying in Akaslompolo in Finland and the trip was offered ...
...operators offering packages to the ice hotel such as Artic Experience. You can combine a few nights staying in the hotel with other adventures such as Husky-sledding and snowmobile expeditions. The cost of these trips is around £800 per person for 4 nights! The ice hotel **************** The idea for building an ice hotel came about in 1990 following an exhibition of ice art in Jukkarjarvi.An igloo was used to house the exhibition and a few hardy ...

anwar 29.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Ice Hotel, Lappland

A Fairytale Place

Advantages: scenery, amazing, unique place
Disadvantages: didn't like the food, exhausting, didn't see Northern Lights

...partner and me to the Ice Hotel in Swedish Lapland – which is the biggest prize I have scooped so far! I was a little apprehensive to say the least – I’m not the warmest of people! We flew out to Arlanda Airport in Stockholm on Friday 8th February 1999, where we had an hour to look round and then caught a connecting flight to Kiruna Airport, which is in the Arctic Circle. By this time it was around midnight, we got our baggage, ...
...we were moving into the Ice Hotel itself for the night. We went back to the place where we got our suits to obtain sleeping bags, and be shown how to use them… yes that’s right. You are advised not to have too much alcohol in the Absolute Bar, to do a little exercise before getting into bed and to shake out your sleeping bag to get lots of air in it. You must take off your suit to sleep, however much you feel like keeping it on, you won’t ...

pagan 16.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Ice Hotel, Jukkasjärv