Ice Hotel 2001

At the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi 2001

My mother invited my brother Justin and myself to a really cool weekend at the Ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi in the north of Sweden as a late Christmas present. To get there we had to travel overnight for 15 hours from Stockholm to Kiruna and then take a 15 min taxi ride to the hotel.

The hotel was great and I thoroughly recommend going there as it was a unique experience. But one night is probably enough. More information on the hotel can be found here. It was interesting to sleep on real raindeer skins in arctic sleeping bags. The only part of my body which became very cold was my face, I think we all had red noses the next day.


Railway, there is lots of snow in the north of Sweden	Justin on the train	All of us	The Ice hotel (at night)	Justin outside the reception

Justin at the hotel entrance	Justin inside the main hall of the hotel	Git in the ice church	Me on the altar of the Ice Church	Our room

Justin and Me in a suite (suits cost about double)	Me in the Viking suite	Justin with Rune stone made of ice	Also on the Viking suite	Self Portrait, the mist is my breath.

Breath from the cameraman	Me in front of a "window"	Same "window"	Justin in a comfy chair	Mammoth carved in the wall

A very icy bathroom	Samantha on ice	Me on an ice polar bear	A beautiful suite	Outside the ice bar

Justin and me again	Looking cool behind a block of ice	Justin trapped behind ice	Me trapped as well	And our mother

The ultraviolet room, very nice!!	An other really cool suite	Me looking chilly	Justin and Git at dinner, in a very cosy restaurant	The Absolut ice bar, early in the evening, later it was packed!

Our vodka drinks served in real ice glasses (lasted about 3 refills)	Justin and the hotel's japanese guide	Some crazy people, it was -5 C in there	Me in the ice art gallery at night	Justin going to "bed", an arctic sleeping bag

We survived the subzero night This is at breakfast	Most cottages had cute animal decorations	A sled dog who was left behind	I bought a couple of hand made glasses made by this artist	Me through a ring of ice

For 350 kr ($35 US) you could have a sauna and jump in a hole in the ice	Do I really need to add that I didn't do this?	This is the hole in the ice for bathing	Most of Jukksajärvi	Too bad it wasn't a real bottle of Absolut

A grand piano made of ice	Artist at work	Me relaxing before we leave	The beautiful Sami-style organ in Jukkasjärvi church	Me in the centre of Kiruna, on the way home.

Café Safari in Kiruna	Git in the bar/nightclub Arran (at 4 in the afternoon)

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