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Built out of snow and ice, the hotel almost blends completely with its surrounds. (Featured image by Christopher Houser)

Every winter for more than 20 years, an international group of intrepid architects and artists have headed over to a remote village in north Sweden (Jukkasjärvi) to build a hotel out of ice and snow.

They call their sculpture (or should we say sculptures – they build the place from scratch every year) IceHotel. And we’re all invited to stay!

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But a night in these luxurious, ornately carved frozen surroundings doesn’t come cheap. A double room costs anything between 1,450-7,000 Swedish Krona (SEK) per person per night – that works out as £137-660 or $220-1,060.

If sleeping on a bed of ice (literally) isn’t your kind of thing, it’s possible to take a guided tour. Adult tickets cost a whopping SEK 325 (£30.50 / $50)!

On the off chance you can’t afford to stay, or you’re not popping by Jukkasjärvi (which, by the way, lies 200 km north of the Arctic Circle) anytime soon, we’ve put together this photo gallery of the IceHotel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brett AckroydBrett hopes to one day reach the shores of far-flung Tristan da Cunha, the most remote of all the inhabited archipelagos on Earth…as to what he’ll do when he gets there, he hasn’t a clue. Over the last 10 years, London, New York, Cape Town and Pondicherry have all proudly been referred to as home. Now it’s Copenhagen’s turn, where he lends his travel expertise to momondo.com.

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