Ice Hotels & Snow Villages
Some places are built from scratch every winter and melt away every spring. Frostline brings together five of the most famous ones: ice hotels, snow villages and a whole city of ice sculptures. For each place you can check the local time, sunrise and sunset, see when it usually opens, and find out how cold it really feels outside and inside the ice rooms.
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Icehotel
The world’s first ice hotel, rebuilt every winter with ice from the Torne River.
SnowVillage
A village of snow and ice between Ylläs and Levi, with a new theme every winter.
Hôtel de Glace
North America’s famous ice hotel, open each winter from January to March.
Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel
The world’s northernmost igloo hotel, beside the Alta River in Arctic Norway.
Harbin Ice Festival
A glowing city of ice and snow sculptures, carved from the frozen Songhua River.