Icehotel - Jukkasjaervi

Just got to be done if you are in the area. We paid as 'day visitors ' because we weren 't actually staying at the hotel. The sculptures in the themed rooms are hugely impressive and it was the cold that finally drove us out after about 30 minutes -5 to preserve the sculptures) rather than having seen enough. The buffet in the restaurant over the road was also very nice, and good value for money.

Once in a lifetime experience. The rooms are cold (no surprise there), however once inside the provided sleeping bag it is lovely and warm, you just have to hope you do not need the loo. Even if you do not plan on sleeping there, I would recommend buying a ticket to see all the rooms, the ice art is amazing and you have to have a drink in the ice bar.

By far one of the most amazing places I have ever visited. A perfect combination of luxury and breath taking nature. The experience of this amazing place is something I will carry with me for the rest of my life and I really hope to come back one day

If this isn't on your bucket list, then it should be!! My wife bought me a trip to the Ice Hotel, which I have said I always wanted to go to. It was only when I was there I realised how much I wanted to be there! What an amazing place. We stayed one night in the Ice Hotel, which they build each year, and then 2 nights in one of the warmer rooms. It is an excellent experience. Sleeping in a room made of ice, on a bed made of ice, in an extremely warm sleeping bag. Had a great night's sleep, and I can now tick it off the bucket list. While there, we enjoyed looking at the ice sculptures in the different bedrooms, a beer in the ice bar, a husky-pulled sledge, a morning of photography taking photos of reindeer and moose and an evening in the wilderness with our own chef. We even took an hour's walk up to the viewpoint of the area. The staff are very friendly, the excursions were great (and I'm not one for excursions usually), and the Northern Lights were breathtaking. If you have been thinking about doing this trip but never gotten around to it......do it!........you will not regret it!

Gulag Archipelago The positives: food is good, and the ice art is photogenic. Thats it. Service is Soviet Era. No smiles or helpful demeanor. Seems to be a lot of interns. The hotel itself is not designed well. The actual ice hotel rooms have one electrical outlet, right by the door, far away from the bed. Should you charge your device, there is a high risk the maid will open the door without knocking (this happened) and break something, as the door sweeps into anything plugged in. The rooms have no tables or anywhere to put anything, except ice surfaces. There are zero amenities in the rooms no lamps, table, chair, minibar, hangers, natural light or air zero! The clothes you wore in to the room and anything else will be either lying on the ice or in/on your bed. I feel like I lost a bet and had to pay to sleep in a tomb of ice. With millions of expense I can 't believe they failed to make something comfortable an average Sami can do with a tent and 20 kronor. The sauna is woefully low in temperature, hardly enough to break into a sweat. Staff feigns inability to change the temperature, which would probably be helped if they actually installed just a temperature gauge, or better, controls. Seeing as how everything is separated geographically, this would the perfect place to have bathrobes. Or slippers. Since overnight guests have to spend so much communal time together, it would be a great opportunity to showcase a patina of luxury in the bath area (You couldn 't call it a spa), instead of this 50s municipal bath house vibe. One MUST leave all luggage in separate chambers away from the ice hotel. These are not very secure, and are accessible from the sides and above to interlopers. Neighbors things were visible. If you are cold in the middle of the night, you could get out of the sleeping bag, walk outside to the reception building, unlock your storage area, and possibly retrieve another layer of clothing to sleep in. Because there are no extra blankets in the sub 0 degree rooms. The dining hall is over a kilometer away from the rest of the infrastructure. There was no service in the ice bar. There was not even a way to get a glass of water, there are no cups (except in reception, found the next day), so if one is thirsty at night you have to go to the toilets and drink from the tap. Also to pee at night you have to open 4 doors and walk in the freezing cold hallway to the communal restrooms and I had the upscale Art Suite . Would not return or recommend this place if you paid me, was hoping it had some charm, and expecting decent comfort. Do the other reviewers have Stockholm Syndrome? Upon closer inspection the only high reviewers are ppl that have been day visitors or slept in the cabins. I 've enjoyed camping in nature even during rain and snow, and loved glamping too. I 've never been so happy to leave a hotel in my life.