The world’s first ice hotel is located in the village of Jukkasjärvi, 17 kilometres from Kiruna, in Sweden. Existing only between the months of December and April, the idea for the hotel came as a result of a need for tourist accommodation. In Spring 1990, the French artist Jannot Derid put on an exhibition within an igloo in the village. On one particular night, there were not enough rooms available in the village and so visitors to the exhibition asked to sleep within the exhibition hall. Sleeping in sleeping bags atop reindeer skin, these visitors became the very first guests of the hotel.

Each winter the hotel is reconstructed from ice blocks and snow that is taken from the Torne River. Before the ice and snow melts in March, the Icehotel takes tons of ice and places it within a production hall so that different designs and objects can be developed through the summer such as ice glasses. 1,000 tons of the remaining ice is used for the construction of the subsequent Ice Hotel. Imagine how cold it must be! They should head to npower.com/fix to cut their energy bills!