the crystal palace from the great London exhibition of 1851 was a marvel of its time - going from planning to standing in only 9 months...i really wish this architectural oddity/place of wonder was still standing...but alas, it was destroyed by fire in the 1930s. not that it would have survived the nightmarish blitz of 1940/41, but nevertheless i feel cheated out of an awe-inspiring travel experience by its absence.
luckily, similarly ephemeral lodging exists today in both Europe and North America in the form of ice hotels. I'm sure I'll never be able to convince any of my sun-loving friends or family to take a long weekend break in one of these glorious structures (temperatures inside the hotels range from about 23 to 28 degrees Fahrenheit at all times) but at some point I am going to have to give it a whirl.
the beauty to the left is the ice hotel of Quebec, but there are similarly gorgeous examples in both Sweden and in the Finnish Lapland.
I'm ready to sleep on and under some reindeer pelts...who's coming with?...
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You could simulate a stay in the ice hotel at a fantasuite. I'm sure it's not as good as the real thing though.
http://www.fantasuite.com/
They do have killer hot tubs!
oh my goodness. is that also the kind of place that has martini glass shaped hot tubs?...i'm guessing they don't have reindeer outside...
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