3 ice bar Hotels

There are plenty of reasons to visit Norway in winter. But most of them involve heading north - to Tromsø, to Finnmark, to the kind of latitudes where the aurora borealis is practically a nightly obligation. What fewer people know is that some of Norway's most quietly extraordinary winter experiences …

Palaces of ice have long been a mainstay of story and myth in European culture. From the frost giants of Norse mythology through Hans Christian Andersen’s classic recounting of the “The Snow Queen” to modern-day America with its legend of Superman living in a huge ice-palace known as the “fortress …

Unusual? Yes. Unique? Possibly. Most hotels are made from bricks and cement or concrete and steel, this one is made from ice and snow. Skilled ice artisans (or should that be icetisans?) build the hotel every winter slightly differently each time. If you want to volunteer to help them, apply …