Property News · January 28, 2016

World’s oldest ‘ice hotel’ is equivalent to 700 million snowballs


Can’t get enough of the unseasonable cold spell in your city? There’s a hotel room where you can sleep on ice
Cesare’s Wake design by Petros Dermatas (Greece), Ellie Souti (Greece) at Ice Hotel | Photo by Asaf Kliger
As temperatures across Asia plummet this week, many areas in the Far East and Southeast Asia are left in the freezing cold, according to the Asian Correspondent. Bangkok, for instance, woke up to around 16 degrees last Monday, while it’s actually snowing in Lao Cai, northern Vietnam.
Weather reports indicate that the abrupt cold wave will soon end, and by this time next week you’ll probably need to turn on your air-conditioning system at home again.
If you’re headed to Sweden, there is a place where people who love the cold can pay to sleep amidst the snow. For 25 years now, the Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel has been inviting guests to do just that.
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Made from 4,000 tonnes of natural ice above the Arctic Circle, the 50-room ice hotel opened in mid-December 2015 and will accept bookings until April 2016 ­– if the igloo suites still hold up by then, that is. With Jukkasjarvi’s normal winter temperature averaging at -25 degrees Celsius, visitors need not worry.
It was reported that some 40 architects, builders and lighting designers worked on the seasonal structure for eight weeks when the temperature dropped to zero.
This winter’s ice hotel features 1,000 hand cut ice crystals and offers a Swedish “sauna” ritual experience (ice plunging), sashimi served on ice, and a northern lights wake-up call for guests. There’s also an Arctic wilderness survival beginner’s course, so you’ll know what to do in icy situations.
More than 50,000 people from around the world are expected to visit the ice hotel. By the end of April, the hotel management will have served more than 26,500 drinks in the rocks from ice cocktail glasses.

Source : property-report.com
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