The 2016 "Icehotel" has opened in Lapland, Sweden, offering tourists a wide range of ways to "chill".
This year’s 55-room hotel contains an ice bar, a church and 19 special suites designed by artists for the structure.
Located in the small town of Jukkasjärvi in the Arctic Circle, the hotel keeps its rooms at a bracing -5°C to -7°C, regardless of the outside temperature. (A number of warmer rooms are on offer.)
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"Elephant in the Room"
The themed suites include the "Elephant in the Room" featuring a life sized ice elephant (pictured), and "Cesare’s Wake suite" (pictured) based on the 1920 expressionist horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
There’s also a rather nice looking "Eye Suite" (pictured), a 1970s style "Love Capsule" (pictured) and the "Show Me What You Got" suite featuring an ice peacock (pictured).
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"Eye Suite"
In previous years the hotel featured an ice unicorn and a chilling model of a London underground tube train.
It takes around 48,000 hours of labour to build the ice hotel, which weighs 500-600 kilograms per cubic metre. The hotel is carved from 5,000 tonnes of ice.
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"Cesare’s Wake suite"
From the ice hotel you can travel into the wilderness via snowmobile or a husky team and go on a reindeer or moose safari.
On a clear night you can see the northern lights from the hotel.
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The "Love Capsule" suite
Visitors are advised to book early, though, because the hotel will likely have melted by April.
Images via Icehotel/Asaf Kliger