Ice hotels, where anyone can stay, will be ideal for the fans of extreme and coldness. We bring to your attention the five most popular hotels as if they have just emerged from the icy realm.
1. For guests of the three-star Icehotel, located 200 kilometers away from the Arctic Circle, in the Swedish Jukkasjärvi, various accommodation options are offered. You can stay in an ordinary warm cottage, and in ice rooms with a minus temperature. The second option of accommodation costs more, but also impressions from residing will suffice for a long time.
2. The Norwegian Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel, like other ice hotels, is recreated every winter. Guests of the hotel can sleep on reindeer skins in sleeping bags. Night in a double room will cost tourists about 35-40 thousand rubles.
3. Prices in the Finnish ice hotel Snow Village is much more democratic than the previous ones: the cost of living in it starts from 19 thousand rubles per night. Guests are offered to stay in the ice rooms, and all the amenities are located in a separate heated building. Note that most of the ice hotels are equipped this way.
4. Canadian Hôtel de Glace in Quebec is ready to offer 44 rooms to its guests. The style of each of them is unique. The night in the standard double ice room will cost 30-35 thousand rubles.
5. The most democratic among the ice hotels is the Romanian Balea Ice Hotel, located at an altitude of 2,000 meters in the mountains of Transylvania. The night in the double room of this ice hotel costs about 10 thousand rubles. The way to the hotel will leave an unforgettable impression because you can get to it only by cable car.
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