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  • The Kirkenes Snowhotel boasts 20 ice rooms, all with different themes...

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    The Kirkenes Snowhotel boasts 20 ice rooms, all with different themes and lighted ice sculptures. It's also home to restaurants, cabins and a dog yard with more than 180 huskies for guests to play with and take sledding. Guests can also catch, cook and eat their very own fresh king crabs. And let's not forget about the Northern Lights tour.

  • Built in 1999, the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel was the first ice hotel...

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    Built in 1999, the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel was the first ice hotel in Norway. Today, the hotel boasts 26 bedrooms, four decorated suites, an ice chapel, ice art gallery and ice bar. Guests can also partake in a snowmobile safari, a Northern Lights tour and go sledding with reindeer.

  • The Ice Kube Bar is in Paris' Kube Hotel and is...

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    The Ice Kube Bar is in Paris' Kube Hotel and is the only one of its kind in the City of Love. The cover fee includes the use of a winter parka, gloves and unlimited vodka. Now that will keep you warm.

  • Icebar Orlando is the largest permanent Icebar in the world, carved...

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    Icebar Orlando is the largest permanent Icebar in the world, carved out of more than 70 tons of ice. Visitors are given winter coats and gloves upon entering the Fire Lounge (because Orlando-ians don't typically have those on hand), then ushered into Icebar to admire frozen sculptures and sip drinks in ice glasses.

  • As the first ice bar in the Middle East, Chillout...

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    As the first ice bar in the Middle East, Chillout Ice Lounge is made almost entirely of ice, from benches, chairs and tables to plates and glasses. The menu does feature some warming items, including hot soups, sandwiches, hot chocolate, desserts, cocktails and more.

  • The building blocks at Icebar London are harvested from the Torne...

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    The building blocks at Icebar London are harvested from the Torne River in Sweden — same as the original Icehotel Jukkasjarvi. Bar visits are limited to 40 minutes but come complete with the use of designer thermal capes and gloves. Each year, the bar is given a redesign with new artwork and sculpting.

  • Chena Hot Springs Resort is home to the world's largest...

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    Chena Hot Springs Resort is home to the world's largest year-round ice environment in the world, the Aurora Ice Museum. The museum is filled with ice sculptures and ice art, an ice chapel and an ice bar. The bar, of course, serves its drinks in ice-carved glasses.

  • In this 1,000-square-foot ice palace made from more than 90 tons of...

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    In this 1,000-square-foot ice palace made from more than 90 tons of hand-carved ice, visitors can ooh and ahh at benches, interactive sculptures, chandeliers and drink glasses made of frozen H20. As if that weren't cool enough, there's also an LED light show.

  • Every winter in Kittila, Finland, workers of Lapland Hotels build...

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    Every winter in Kittila, Finland, workers of Lapland Hotels build a Snow Village — a hotel, bar and wedding chapel made entirely of ice and snow. This year, the resort worked with HBO for an epic "Game of Thrones" theme. The village also includes log cabins if guests would rather not sleep in beds made of ice. Visitors can also go dog-sledding, take a moonlight reindeer safari or rent out the sauna.

  • In the mood for a cold one (see what we did...

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    In the mood for a cold one (see what we did there)? Like its hotel counterpart, Icebar, first built in 1994, is made entirely of snow and ice.

  • On top of the Hewing Hotel in Minneapolis, sits one...

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    On top of the Hewing Hotel in Minneapolis, sits one of the most exclusive rooftop bars in the area. Every Tuesday during the winter season, a hand-chiseled ice bar/lounge adds something extra. The bar boasts ice high-top tables and an ice air-hockey table.

  • On top of a frozen glacial lake, guests can stay...

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    On top of a frozen glacial lake, guests can stay in one of the hotel's subzero rooms or rent a private igloo nearby. Transylvanian and Romanian fare is featured at the restaurant. Guests can also enjoy skiing, snowboarding, ice bowling and snowman-building competitions.

  • According to its website, Icehotel is the world's first and largest...

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    According to its website, Icehotel is the world's first and largest hotel built of snow and ice. Each year, about 100 people are involved in building the hotel, which consists of 30,000 tons of a snow-ice mixture. Along with the 50 decorated cold rooms, an ice bar and ice church, the hotel also has a restaurant, cabins, 70 hotel rooms and a lounge where visitors can escape the cold.

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Ice ice baby!
Ice bars and hotels were posh before Super Bowl LII, but Minneapolis certainly did the trend a favor with its array of frigid attractions.
And while it may seem counterintuitive to seek out chilly hangouts during winter, these beautiful locales made of ice might just change your mind.
From the artistically sculpted walls of a Canadian ice hotel, to a subzero bar in London, we’ve rounded up 15 hot spots worth braving the cold for. Just don’t forget your gloves! — Lauren Hill