ICEHOTEL 365, Kiruna

From November 2016, you can experience the ICEHOTEL 365 days a year. Rather than allowing the ICEHOTEL to slowly melt each spring, a new concept has been created allowing you to spend a night in a hand-sculpted suite made of ice, at any time of the year. Using solar panels to harness the near constant daylight between April and September, this environmentally friendly project hopes to showcase the Arctic and its seasons year round. Enjoy everything from the midnight sun to the autumnal colours of September and the first wisps of the Aurora returning.

Outside the winter months, the ICEHOTEL 365 will have 22 deluxe and art suites housed in a permanent turf covered roof, topped with Arctic mountain flowers and grasses. The inner walls of this construction will be covered in ice, and as befitting its original concept, the inside will be adorned with pillars and sculptures crafted by ice artists from all over the world. The suites themselves will be at a constant -5°c, in order to maintain the exquisite sculptures and reindeer skin covered ice-bed that you will be sleeping on. A welcome new addition will be an adjoining heated en-suite bathroom. When winter arrives the traditional ICEHOTEL will be added, housing further ice rooms and suites.