my name is Eric Conover that is a giant man made out of snow this is a bed made
out of ice in fact this whole building is made out of snow and ice it is minus
11 degrees in northern Finland and I am about to spend the night in the snow
village ice hotel let's start off with some hotel stats The Snow Village covers
an area of 20,000 square meters it's built up every year from scratch and
construction begins around late October to early November when it gets cold
enough the hotel is constructed from 20 million kilos of snow and 350 thousand
kilos of crystal clear natural ice the temperature in the snow village remains
at a I mean I guess you could call it comfortable - - - about minus 5 degrees
Celsius and now for the Grand Tour let's start off in the ice restaurant
tonight we are dining in the world's largest igloo I've traveled around the
world and I've stayed in some pretty cool places my time but I've never ever
stayed in a place made out of snow basically everything in here is ice
table made out of ice chair made out of ice bar made out of ice
silverware not made out of ice I'm not actually sitting on ice I'm sitting on a
nice little but warmer faux-fur we have some blankets we have some hot hot tea
to warm the soul maybe because it was freezing or maybe because the food was
actually incredible I had a plate of lavish delicacies with baked ice cream
for dessert and it was probably one of the best meals I've ever had in my life
also the meal is included with a stay overnight at the snow village Ice Hotel
this is actually pretty ironic every Hotel in Finland is required by law to
have fire extinguishers so in the Ice Hotel there's fire extinguishers the
walls are lined with these pieces of clear ice with blue glacier lights
illuminating them through the whole hallway we just finished up our dinner
in the ice restaurant and now we're going to the ice bar
okay but this is what it looks like with people actually in it since the hotel is
open to the public until 10:00 p.m. the bar is usually pretty packed it was more
or less a huge melting pot for for people all over the world
cheers Cheers I got tonic because I don't drink but what you guys yet we got
a special offer yeah Bert just put the throw to b-roll the ice hotel was built
this year in collaboration with HBO's Game of Thrones and it was actually
featured in the show last season so if you're in the mood to watch some Game of
Thrones or a film you can do so in the ice cave movie theater and also you're
thinking to yourself men this is a very very romantic part of the world you can
actually come here and get married in the ice chapel right here this is where
you would do it this is where you would tie the knot with the love of your life
in an igloo and it's actually honestly it's something like out of a fairy tale
and what is that where are you going my god if you jump down here off the altar
you look back and there's definitely a good amount of seating here family and
friends and now for the rooms there are 30 rooms in the Ice Hotel eight of which
are suites each suite has an individual piece of art that was commissioned by
world-famous artist so you walk into this room and there is some kind of
sorcerer Viking man with some big snow globe it is a level of detail that you
can get out of snow like even up close it makes it even more impressive the
closer you get to it every suite has a different piece of art so let's go check
out the other ones
seriously if you were a kid and you saw this nightmares this is a regular room
there's no artwork just the bed mattress you can't really tell in so I put on the
wide-angle lens how big is these rooms are and how
massive the art is that's what's that April probably if you get a little cold
a nice hotel if you're not you can walk outside here we've got a beautiful full
moon back there you cross this little area over here there's a nice man to
greet you welcome there's a fire that's probably burning 24/7 you can grab a fur
is warm up all the visitors have left is now just the guests that are spending
the night in the hotel and before there's a very party-like atmosphere now
it almost has an eerie kind of haunted vibe to it wouldn't you say it's like
it's like really really quiet like because all this snow just absorbs the
sound it's it's kind of scared are you set it's this ice hotel is massive and
kind of whispering now just because it is nighttime it's almost midnight so now
I'm taking the path to the heated area where we change it to our sleeping bags
these are all the sleeping bags all stacked up right here you come over this
way you grab your pillow then on this side they have towels and there is
actually a shower here the showers as bathrooms all that this is the actual
hotel you know the ice rooms are conscious to
place to sleep you have your sleeping bag liner which is rated to I believe
the one guy said he's camped out at minus 45 Mike yes yeah so this can get
pretty cold so you have your liner here you put your line or you jump in this
first then you slide into your sleeping bag then right up here you have these
little draw cords so you pull these guys and more or less you are in a little
cocoon I mean you'll see right now back in my instrument
this is my room for the night I have the koi pond room I'm gonna wear a hat I'm
gonna wear wool socks long johns and thermals maybe gloves too who knows if
I'm feeling a little little nippy electronics go in the sleeping bag your
phone will die your camera dial that's gonna die if you leave it on ice and
this is like a heavy-duty sleeping bag once you get in this bag I'm knocking
like I'm kind of toasty Pat's very critical but the temperature is minus 9
or minus 10 Celsius it's actually colder in the ice hotel than outside I'm gonna
go to my room and cocoon myself good luck good night and I'll see you in the
morning are you gonna sleep in the ice hotel are you gonna go sleep in the
warmth of the lobby ha I haven't decided yet but I'm probably gonna sleep in the
ice hotel I'm gonna have the camera by my bed documenting you know if I wake up
if I'm sleeping so either I will see you at sunrise or I'll see you if I can't
sleep a few hours
6:47 in the morning after a night in nice hotel
the lovely man from the front desk just came in with a warm blueberry juice to
kind of kickstart it yeah I look like I just slept on a nice bed okay I'm a bit
more awake left the ice hotel now walking into the main area which is
actually like a normal hotel to find a delicious spread of breakfast laid out
you have eggs you have all your bread you have cheese the cheese here is very
good another alternative to having breakfast in the warm kitchen is to come
out here to the official cold dining room instead the big table and have your
breakfast here but as you can see no one has opted for the Col option because
after spending a night in this place you are out of your damn mind if you want to
have breakfast in the cold but after I woke up I went to the front desk and I
found a diploma with my name on it which says congratulations here is the big
question would you spend a night in the Ice Hotel comment down below yes or no
if you would stay here in this giant igloo for the night and make sure to
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we'll see from a beach hopefully in the next video peace