Ice hotel launched in Japan

17.01.2011 [12:15]
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Baku, January 17 (AZERTAC). Hotel room made of ice, including a bed, table and other furniture also made of ice, began accepting guests over the weekend at a resort in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

The ''ice hotel'' facility, housed inside a dome made of ice at the Alpha Resort Tomamu in the village of Shimukappu, accepts one pair or group per day during a month-long operation period through Feb. 15. The winter temperature is as low as minus 18 C in the village and guests are supposed to sleep in sleeping bags inside the ice hotel room where the temperature is around minus 3 C. Outside the dome is an outdoor bath that can be used only by guests staying at the ice hotel room. The ice dome, about 15 meters in diameter, was made by sprinkling water and ice onto a giant balloon, and has about 15-centimeter thick walls. The accommodation fee for the ice room is at least 50,000 yen per pair but guests must also take book an ordinary hotel room at the resort, as the ice room is just to offer the ''experience'' of staying in ice, the operator of the resort said.

Ice hotel launched in Japan

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