Look inside this year’s Icehotel in Sweden
This year’s Icehotel in Sweden is ready to welcome guests and some of the incredible icy rooms have been revealed. Every winter, the Icehotel in Swedish Lapland is designed by artists with bespoke suites and activities for guests such as cross-country skiing and ice swimming.
Icehotel in Sweden is created every year by ice from the Torne River in Jukkasjärvi with 27 artists from all over the world invited to design this year’s Icehotel 32 (the 32nd edition), as well as three new art suites for the year-round Icehotel 365.
It took six weeks to build this year’s project from start to finish, with 25,000 cubic meters (roughly the size of 10 Olympic swimming pools) of snow and ice, as well as 200 handmade ice crystals to create the chandeliers.
A highlight of the new hotel is the suite designed by the British father and daughter duo Jonathan and Marnie Green Dickensian Street which looks like a Victorian district in London, complete with icy shops, houses, cobbled streets and even a pub carved in ice.
There is also the hexagonal art deco interior Good Gatsby suite and a suite filled with ice sculpted chickens in To bed with the chickens suite, created by Edith Van de Wetering and Wilfred Stijger from the Netherlands, where the phrase “go to bed with the chickens” means to go to bed early.
Icehotel 32 can be experienced until April 2022 and the permanent part of the hotel, Icehotel 365, is open and offers ice and snow experiences all year round.
In addition to the art, guests can enjoy experiences such as dog sledding to see the northern lights, ice swimming, snowmobile adventures and enjoy award-winning food at Icehotel Restaurant.
This article was first published on December 15, 2020 and updated on December 14, 2021