Jukkasjärvi: The Majestic Ice Hotel

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Jukkasjärvi: The Majestic Ice Hotel 

This is the perfect place if you don't now where to travel next time, Well, you need to travel to Sweden. Be part of the most amazing Sweden tourism.  

It is one of the most Unbelievable things that life has to offer. Created by the hands of humans, this "Ice Hotel" is the first of a kind. Located in Jukkasjärvi Village, Northern Sweden. This incredible hotel opened its doors in 1990 for the first time and had been built every year from December to April.

The hotel, including the chairs, beds, tables, glasses and almost everything in it are made from snow and ice blocks that are taken from the nearby river, Torne River. The rooms and decorations are all made by artists. The bar is one of a kind, with ice glasses and under 0 temperatures best liqueurs. It is all possible because of the temperature that is just below freezing temperature, -5°C or 23°F.

The ice hotel had a unique history, 27 years ago in 1989, a group of Japanese ice artists visited Jukkasjärvi Village to make an exhibition of ice art near the place. The next year, in 1990 French artists Jannot Derid held an exhibition in cylinder-shaped igloos in the same area. What happened next was the initial spark for something even greater. One night all the rooms in the village were full, and some of the visitors asked for permission to spend the night in the igloo at the exhibition hall. They used sleeping bags and were the first guests of the "HOTEL."

Ice Hotel Bar Decorations

As the hotel is made completely of ice and snow, artists create themes inside the rooms. They make a  church, a bar, a reception area, mail hall, plus another +100 rooms with luxury ice topics for the guests. The Furniture is sculpted in blocks of ice, to make everything look like a regular hotel. The room can cost something around US$1,500. All the rooms are a different one from another, each one a complete work of art.

The temperature inside the hotel is constantly around -5°C, they will provide their customers with special equipment to use while sleeping in the rooms. They also use polar-tested sleeping bags to sleep. There's no plumbing in the ice hotel and no heating, but there's a sauna and outdoors hot tubs if you need some hot time for yourself. All the bathrooms are located in a warm building near the igloos.

If you do not want to experience and super cold vacation but still want to visit the place, they also have what the call "warm rooms," these rooms have all the commodities of a luxury hotel. It is just perfect if you want to get out of your comfort zone,  a one in a million experience. In the end, I have to tell you; you have to travel to Sweden.