Largest ever ice hotel to be open in Lapland |
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 An igloo bedroom in the ice hotel - they are decorated with ornate carvings and lit with multi coloured lights. [Agencies] Up to sixty guests per night will endure temperatures between 32 to 23F (0 to -5c) sleeping on beds made from blocks of ice. Residents' igloo rooms are supplied with sleeping bags, fleeces and instructions on how to survive the "sleepover". When they awake, hot berry juice is provided to help thaw them out. There are also two "warm" subterranean rooms provided for less hardy travellers. A team of 15 ice sculptors spent three weeks building the Ice Hotel from over a thousand lorry-loads of snow. This year, an extra three rooms have been carved from the ice, bringing the frozen accommodation up to 30 suites. All the rooms are decorated with ornate carvings and lit with multi coloured lights. An ice bar and restaurant, ice slides and ice sculptures have also been created to keep visitors to the Snowvillage near Kittila, Finland entertained. The ice hotel has been built on the 7.5 square kilometre (three square mile) site every winter for the last eight years. The entire complex will melt away as temperatures rise in the spring. Snowvillage designer, Heini said: "It seems that if we have a very cold autumn then the spring will be warm and the Snowvillage will melt earlier. "But, as like this year, our autumn has been warm, our spring should be colder. So hopefully we'll be taking guests until April next year." |
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