they lay a deer skin over a mattress that is on a block of ice and you lay in special sleeping bags....lol...that's awesome....

from what i read though...you stay one night in the "ice hotel" and the rest in the "warm accommodations"....it gets to -5 C at night....

they wake you up with fresh warm lingoberry juice and have a warm sauna and spa in the morning...i dunno...doesn't seem to bad...

 

Wonder if they still use ice machines there

 

They do, it's an ingenious machine called "Mother Natures 'Colder-than-*****', all natural Ice Maker".

 

What about "shrinkage"? Seems like there would be major shrinkage happening in an ice motel. Maybe don't take your new bride their on the honeymoon...[&:]

 

maybe you would have to worry about shrinkage doo-doo...but some of us....:cough, cough: don't have to worry about shrinkage because even if shrunk, there's still a lot there....LOL...

hi-oh!

 

A shower, eh? Well, some of us are growers...[8D]

 

Isn't there a place in Arizona or New Mexico that has been digging out cave-homes for the past decade or so?

If I remember right, they were fairly cheap, too. Natural heating and cooling. Kind of sidetracking but sort of related.

Where's the weirdest place you would live?

 

At least you don't have to take golden showers to stay warm, they say they have normal warm bathrooms.

Yeah, I saw the show on discovery? showing the whole process that goes into building that ice hotel. What surprised me is that after all that work and flying in artists from all over the world to do unique and intricate ice sculptures and artwork all over the hotel (a unique one in each room) they have to do it all over again the next year.

 

i really want to go...LOL...i am weird....there is something that is just so intriguing about it....

 

Im with ya! It would be awesome to see in person. Im not a fan of the cold. But for that def!