Ice Hotel – Cold as a cucumber.

Some people might seek refuge in an hotel made of ice blocks during a snow storm, but most people would think the construction would look more like an igloo. Other people choose to be married in the Chapel at the Ice Hotel Canada sculpts out of blocks of ice, and the wedding night is certain to be very chilly.

The most popular ice castle in Quebec suddenly had to post the sold out sign when it rented 22 beds to visitors on its first night open. The Ice Hotel Sweden offers holds first place in Ice Hotels history. The Ice Hotel Sweden is a historical landmark in a sense, and many countries have copied the concept repeatedly over the years. Ice hotels are torn down each year, and the walls that are placed in these ice castles are built to be four foot wide at times. The original version of the Sweden Ice Hotel was built as an art exhibit, and the ice castle in Quebec serves drinks crafted from ice. Guests at the ice castle in Quebec receive royal treatment because they are served sandwich fixings on an ice crafted plate.

Sweden’s ice castle is only open for business from December to April each year. An ice hotel will melt away slowly and the sculptor plans for this factor carefully and in Canada the sculptor will usually build the Ice Hotel Quebec in January. The gifted sculptor equips the Quebec Ice hotel rooms with heated bathrooms, and niceties such as deer furs to shield the icy chill that surrounds mattresses topped with artic sleeping bags that guests sleep under. These ice hotels entertainment offerings include two art galleries too that are filled to the brim with ice sculptures.

The Ice Hotel Quebec has a bar and movie theatre that guests can enjoy. Newlyweds can marry at the Quebec Ice Hotel in a Chapel that is equipped with an altar and furniture formed by ice carvings. The ice blocks used to build the Ice Hotel Canada weight 4,750 tons, and the number of rooms in this ice hotel will be determined every January. The Ice Hotel Sweden reuses the ice blocks each year, and finds additional ice in the Torne River where ice hotels originated from.

People do not always visit the hotels of ice in winter time. The Hotel of Ice in Sweden is host to many artists that sculpt in ice year round, and view art exhibitions while drinking vodka in the cozy enclaves of the ice bar in this ice hotel. The thrill of seeing the Midnight Sun, or enjoying the Swedish Lapland is miniscule compared to the thrill of an overnight stay at the ice castle in Quebec, where rooms have ceilings that reach 16 feet sometimes. The doorways to the rooms at the Ice Hotel Canada feature arches made out of ice blocks that are projected even higher in many of the hotel rooms.