arctic adventures swedish lapland - Nordic Experience

ARCTIC ADVENTURES ICE HOTELEXPERIENCE THE COOLESTMORE THAN JUST A HOTELAs the Besam automatic ice doors slide apart to revealthe Hall of Pillars, ICEBAR and a labyrinth of corridorsleading to Snow Rooms, Ice Rooms and elegantlysculpted Art Suites, you enter not just a hotel but aunique interior unmatched by imitators anywhere on theplanet.Now celebrating its 21st year the ICEHOTEL, a one timemodest igloo that was the brainchild of today's CEOYngve Bergqvist for a local Sami heritage project, hastoday morphed into a hotel proper with the distinction ofbeing built from the uniquely translucent, turquoise icecut from the adjacent Torne river.Across the last two decades fashion photographer HerbRitts has used the ICEHOTEL as a backdrop for a Versaceshoot; a Sami repertory company has staged Hamlet inan ice replica of the Globe Theatre; Absolut Vodkaestablished the world’s first ICEBAR and the ICEHOTELhas become a magnet for ice sculptors from Chile toOsaka. And ICEHOTEL’S involvement in space tourism atSpace City Kiruna 2020 means the hotel may be thecoolest hotel on another planet before long!In the hotel’s warm areas you can relax in a Republic ofFritz Hansen egg chair; savour the taste of Absolut vodkainfused with lingonberry juice, dine in the ICEHOTEL orHomestead restaurants both of which use localingredients such as arctic raspberries, white fish roe andvenison occasionally even served on ice plates.All of our arrangements to the ICEHOTEL combine anight (generally the first because you just won’t want towait) in what we refer to as a “cool” room followed byone or more in a “warm” one. Both come in threeversions with substantial differences between cool roomswhich we will be happy to talk through with you. Warmrooms have identical furnishing and fabrics but vary as tosize and number of beds.COOL ROOMSSNOW ROOMSDesigned like a mini-igloo with a double bed illuminatedfrom below and a rug hung across the door for privacy.ICE ROOMSAre slightly larger than snow rooms with the principledifference being the addition of wall sculptures and ‘ice’furniture.ART SUITESLiterally what it says: suites of art and suites inthemselves. More than double the size of an ice or snowroom each is individually and imaginatively designed byvisiting award winning international designers and theICEHOTEL’S own Art Design group. The walls arecovered with ice sculptures; the lounge area fitted with6Nordic Experience