The IceHotel

No, this is not Jadis the White Witch of Narnia's sleeping chambers. It's just one of over a dozen suites at the IceHotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, over 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Tired of Hampton and Holiday Inns? "Staying at IceHotel is an experience utterly unlike other hotel stays." No kidding. Other hotel stays probably don't include a church carved out of ice, or a Northern Lights Tour, or an Absolut Icebar, or a bed of reindeer skins to sleep on.

The entire hotel is rebuilt from scratch every year because it melts every summer. Sculptors from all over the world come to Jukkasjärvi and are assigned one room each. You'll never stay in the same room twice!

The IceHotel website assures visitors that "inside, the temperature is never colder than -5 °C to -8 °C, regardless of how cold it may be outside." For those of you who don't speak Celsius, that's -40 to -45 degrees Fahrenheit. Inside.

Luckily, the hotel provides you with these fashionable thermal sleeping bags that look like the hollowed-out body of Sully from Monsters, Inc (see?).

Sound like fun? Explore all of the 2007 suites at the IceHotel's website.

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