35th iteration Sweden‘ Icehotel– Scans from 500 tons of ice and snow on the Ton River each year, opens in the Arctic Arctic village of Jukkasjärvi for winter 2024-2025.
As usual, the finished product is the result of great effort. In just 6 weeks, an international team of 76 builders, artists, lighting designers and other crew members managed to shape the value of snow and ice in 10 Olympic-sized swimming pools, entering rooms, ceremony halls (weddings and other events), a lobby, a popsicle, ice cream, chandeliers, chandeliers and original sculptures, is no longer a season.
According to the Icehotel press release, things this year are particularly challenging: warmer than November normally delays the start of construction. Fortunately, artists and builders were able to complete the project in a timely manner to welcome the first overnight guests on December 13. The frost structure will continue to be booked until April 2025.
((“Oh, the wrong room!!” Art Suite at Icehotel in Sweden in 2024 | Designed by Annasofia Måg; Photo by Asaf Kliger)
More than twenty artists from 13 different countries have created 12 “art suites” of this year, where you can sleep in the depicted frozen scene, which among other things has caused forest creatures, huge rhinos suddenly erupting on the walls, and Sammy’s grandmother’s braided gloves.
((2024 “Áhku Fáhcat” art kit at Icehotel in Sweden | Design by Elisabeth Kristensen; Photo by Asaf Kliger)
There are also 20 standard ice rooms (Sans Artists’s facilities) and a 30-meter (98-foot) main hall decorated with handmade chandeliers of 220 ice crystals. Drop the space-themed ice beans in orbit (in the top image on this page) to drink a drink next to the life-sized astronaut sculpture (ice tronaut?) before slipping through the ice.
((“Yesterday Tomorrow” Art Suite in 2024 at Icehotel in Sweden | Design by Corban Warrington and Daniel Afonso; Photo by Asaf Kliger)
The inside of the ice light remains at about -5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit). When bedtime, guests put a reindeer hot sleeping bag on a thick mattress with reindeer on it. If this doesn’t sound attractive, the permanent part of the hotel has heated rooms and cabins instead of being made of ice.
((2024 “Give Us a Kiss” Art Kit at Icehotel in Sweden | Design BT Carl Welllander and Malena Welllander; Photos of Asaf Kliger)
Since 1989, Icehotel has also developed several culinary experiences and wilderness activities since its operation.
You can taste Arctic cuisine, try your hands on ice carvings, ride a snowmobile to find the northern lights, and warm up with a sauna ritual.
Overnight accommodation is expensive and icy, with rates around 5,000 Swedish Kronor ($500). go IceHotel.com For more information or booking.
View the website’s photo library See incredibly short decoration without freezing your tuchus.
((2024 Art Suite at Icehotel in Sweden “Come and Warm Up” | Designs by Isabelle Gasse and Joelle Gagnon; Photos by Asaf Kliger)
Your only option to sleep in an ice hotel in North America is Quebec Ice Hotelscheduled to open this season on Saturday, January 4. For the low point in that place, we recommend you to report Filed by your summary correspondent I spent a cold night there a few years ago.