ICEHOTEL overlooks the Torne River in the little village of Jukkasjärvi, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle.

We stand before a magnificent creation, a building so improbable and yet so self-evident, built entirely as it is of snow and ice.

Thirty thousand tons of snow, produced by huge snowguns, make up the walls and roof, and three thousand tons of ice, borrowed from one of the purest rivers in the Northern Hemisphere, provide the inner walls and decoration. The building technology is unique. Tunnel-like spaces are constructed with the aid of large sheet-metal templates and then decorated to form a winter creation without peer.

ICEHOTEL TODAY IS a worldwide concern of high attraction value. Every season from mid-December until the beginning of May the ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi receives more than 50,000 visitors from all over the world.
They come lured by the promise of experiencing that little bit extra. And that "little bit extra" is magnificently exclusive. The concept is cogently worked out and genuinely good. Added to which, it is all the time being developed, fine-tuned and upgraded.

So no visitor need return home disappointed: lots of them come back for more.
Fifteen thousand of them spend the night in one of the 40 double rooms or 25 suites which the hotel includes. At a temperature of between -5 and -8 Celsius they sleep the sleep of the just on reindeer hides, tucked up in polar sleeping bags.

Outside the 4,500 sq. m. hotel, the temperature occasionally plummets to -40 degrees.