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Quebec City - The Ice Hotel is unquestionably one of the world's coolest hotels. It has four-foot thick walls that insulate like a thermos, keeping the temperature inside between 23 and 28° Fahrenheit (-2°and –5° Celsius). Each year's design is different, with a complete hotel constructed using about 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice. Versions have featured 32 bedrooms and suites, a chapel, a cinema, an outdoor hot tub, a sparkling chandelier and bar - all carved from ice. You'll find it 25 minutes west of Quebec City, north of Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier. Public tours are available (have a drink in a glass carved of ice) or book in advance for an overnight stay (ice beds have furs and thermal sleeping bags). It's been the site of weddings, concerts and fashion shows, and is open annually early January to early April. Photo by CHDG (c) Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada. |
