The first ice hotel was created in the village of Jukkasjarvi, Sweden back in the late 1980s. Since that time, other cities around the world have copied the concept.
Ice hotels are temporary hotels totally made out of ice. By totally, that pretty much means everything. The walls are made of ice, all furniture is made out of ice, the beds are made out of ice, even the glasses that people drink from our made out of ice. Because of this, not every place in the world can make a nice hotel. It takes a place that's not only cold, but has a lot of water to be able to make ice chunks big enough to be turned into a hotel.
The process of watching someone put an ice hotel together is quite fascinating. In some areas, the builders will actually plan out the hotel they're going to make, build something that looks like what you might use to make ice cubes, and fill them with water so they can get the proper size of each piece. Then they separate them from their molds, alter them as they need to be, which might include some polishing, and then put them together very delicately. After all, you can't use mortar or cement, and you can't use hot rivets, and because ice is still very fragile even when it's thick, an important piece can crack and the builders would have to create another piece to fit exactly into that spot. To get these pieces of ice to stay together, these builders have come up with something that they call snice, which is a special mixture of snow and ice.
Depending on where you go will change the experience you will have at an ice hotel. Some hotels will actually have mattresses and you will sleep under a series of sleeping bags or blankets. At some hotels you will only be given sleeping bags. There's one hotel in Norway which has a Viking theme and has you sleeping on top of reindeer hides.
As odd as it might seem to some people, these ice hotels are very popular. Most of them are very colorful, with light somehow added both surrounding him being put inside these ice chunks (obviously they're not using the normal lights to give off a lot of heat), and because ice bitch used to make the hotels is very clear it gives off a very pleasant ambience. But it takes a special visitor to want to stay a night in an ice hotel, with the temperatures have to be kept at least below 28°F. And the hotels themselves don't last too long, with some only staying open two months at the longest. Truthfully, it sounds like a lot of fun.
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