This year’s Icehotel in Sweden has been revealed – and it’s a beauty.
A new hotel is built each year in the Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi – 200 km north of the Arctic Circle – using ice from the nearby river Torne.
Each room is individually themed and hand-carved by a guest artist from around the world. This year’s stunning rooms feature astronauts, King Kong and giant snails.
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Each room is unique and cooled to -5 to -8 degrees Celsius. You sleep in a thermal sleeping bag, on top of a hand-carved block of ice covered in reindeer hides. In the morning, you’re woken with a cup of hot lingonberry juice.
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There is also a large ice bar that serves champagne, and an ice gallery.
For more information, head to IceHotel.
This article originally appeared on Better Homes and Gardens.
With a first-class Honours degree in English, Rebecca Lowrey Boyd is best known as the founder of Wee Birdy (weebirdy.com), a London-based blog devoted to London shopping, design and style. It was named one of the Top 100 Blogs in the World by the Sunday Times (UK), and was listed on Times Online's Best 50 Design Blogs in the World. It has also featured in many international magazines including British Vogue, British Cosmopolitan, Australian Cosmopolitan, Inside Out, Shop Til You Drop and Home Beautiful. During her time in London, Rebecca was also Deputy Shopping & Style Editor at Time Out London. She is also the former editor of Bride to Be, Cosmopolitan Bride, Cosmopolitan Pregnancy and Cosmopolitan Hair & Beauty magazines, as well as Digital Managing Editor on bhg.com.au, an associate editor on Home Beautiful magazine, Acting Digital Managing Editor on Homes to Love and Digital Managing Editor on Gourmet Traveller. A design nerd and keen birder, she can usually be found poring over Pinterest, knee-deep in Bunnings or sticky-beaking at modernist homes in Sydney’s bushburbia.
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