Every winter in Jukkasjärvi, artists rebuild the Icehotel from scratch using river ice and snow, so no two years' art suites ever match. Sleeping at minus five on a reindeer-skin-draped ice bed, zipped into an expedition bag, is genuinely comfortable — the hot lingonberry juice delivered at your bedside is the morning badge of honour. Do one ice night and one warm night, which is what the veterans book. December to April; each spring it melts back into the Torne river.
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