HOLIDAYS TO NORWAY

THE SNOW HOTEL AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
5 days from £1590 pp

Opened in December 2006, the Kirkenes Snow Hotel is the world’s newest and, at 69ºN, most northerly Ice Hotel. With just 15 suites exquisitely sculpted, ice art and double beds topped with reindeer pelts, the Kirkenes Snow Hotel is – we think – destined to become the ‘boutique’ of the world’s Ice Hotels.

Just outside Kirkenes, characterised by rather utilitarian architecture, is the awesomely stark Gabba Reindeer Park where the Kirkenes Snowhotel is just a ‘kick sled’ ride away. Here, as you eat your supper in a traditional Sami ‘lavvo’ under the arctic night, it’s hard to imagine this being one of the Cold War’s most incendiary flash points, which the watch towered Norwegian Russian border still bears testimony to.

Kirkenes sits 400km north of the Arctic alongside the Barents Sea at the apex of the Scandinavian peninsula where Norway meets Russia and Finland. In the surrounding plains of Norwegian Lapland you can enjoy a cocktail of adventures: snowmobiling over the mountain ridge to observation point 247 where NATO faced down the Russian Bear for half a century; husky safaring under (hopefully) the Northern Lights and snowmobiling out over the ice to fish for Giant Crabs unique to the Barents Sea.

All in all, a real ‘been there – done that’ experience and now with Gordon Ramsay’s f factor.

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