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Why you need to stay in one of the world’s most unusual hotels

Photo credit: Tomasz Czajkowski/Eryk Marks
Photo credit: Tomasz Czajkowski/Eryk Marks

From Good Housekeeping

Located amongst the magical lakes and plains of Swedish Lapland, the Icehotel is rebuilt each year by around 40 artists, who hand-sculpt the frozen water of the Torne River into beautiful Arctic guestrooms.

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No two suites are ever the same - they are each ephemeral and imaginatively designed by artists from all over the world. Icerooms and Art Suites are furnished with frozen décor, and beds are crafted out of ice, with Arctic furs and reindeer hides to cover them and offer sumptuous comfort to sleepy guests.

Photo credit: Icehotel Sweden
Photo credit: Icehotel Sweden

Believe it or not, there are restaurants in the Icehotel, as well as the famous Icebar, which serves cocktails and champagne in glasses - you guessed it - made entirely of ice! You can even dance the night away on a dance floor of snow.

A visit to the Icehotel is a once-in-lifetime experience, and Good Housekeeping is offering readers the chance to spend a night in a visionary Iceroom next winter. You'll also visit the Abisko Mountain Station, taking a 20-minute chairlift ride up to the incredible Aurora Sky Station, where a four-course Swedish dinner will be served. In this unique restaurant guests sit down to dinner in front of breathtaking views of the mountains and snowy lakes below, and hopefully to views of the stunning Northern Lights.

Photo credit: Discover the World
Photo credit: Discover the World

There are few better places to spot the dancing, electric light than Lapland and Abisko National Park, which was rated by Lonely Planet as one of the best places in the world to see them. Guests will spend a night in the Abisko Mountain Lodge, looking out across the Lapporten mountain valley at the vast Arctic skies, where the almost total absence of light pollution increases your chances of catching the northern lights.

Read more about spending a night in the magical Icehotel and eating dinner under the stars in Abisko.


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