Ice Hotels · 4 hotels

Four buildings made of ice and packed snow, put up again for each winter and gone by summer. The material is the structure here: walls, beds and furniture are cut from the same frozen stock, and the plan can change from one season to the next. Permanent hotels with an ice bar in the basement are not in this group, and neither are heated cabins that only stand in a cold place.

• Icehotel15 · Jukkasjärvi, Sweden — Rebuilt every winter from Torne river ice
• Hôtel de Glace16 · Québec, Canada — North America's only ice hotel, winter season only
• Kirkenes Snowhotel17 · Kirkenes, Norway — A snow building on a fjord near the Russian border
• Iglu-Dorf18 · Gstaad, Switzerland — A village of snow domes high above the valley

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