Lau goes to Finland: Top 100 and Sleeping in a Snow-Icehotel

Sleeping in a Snow-Icehotel?

Come to sleep in a Snow-Icehotel...they said...it will be an experience..they said...

Let's take a look at the prices...Okay aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone...

As a student it is not easy to purchase all those kind of trips and adventures, but there are always possibilites to reach your aims and dreams...

Why and how can somebody imagine to sleep in a Hotel, which is made completely out of Snow and Ice ?

The whole group of testies

You could ask: "Isn't there enough snow, cold, ice and darkness( no polar bears ) in Finland? I mean they have snow until May/June :( :( :(

Why is somebody interested in spending more time in cold winter conditions..?

In the Medicine and Health Care Campus of the University of Applied Sciences, there was a request for "rabbits" presented by normal students to take part in a medical survey project. The project's aim was that all the testies(rabbits) were spending one night in a snow-ice hotel in Kemi, while having some EKG-Measuresystem wearing for a total time of three days and three nights. They want to take a look at your stresslevel, about the sleeping experience, how your body will react to such cold winter conditions ( -5 °C Room temperature ) and some other medical stuff which I tried to understand and to follow the points, but already forget.

Sleeping in a Snow-Icehotel...well it could be a nice and unique experience,... and it is also standing on some of those prepared, " Oh I don't know what to post on the internet" Guys who search some attraction and eyecatchers or social friends while uploading some random stuff and renaming it like " TOP 100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE..."-lists.

So it could be a nice idea. The project also paid the hotel night...so let's go!

The whole hotel is build of snow and ice. The hotel includes around 50 rooms,

The hotel is rebuild every year, and represented with a new art topic :)

It also includes:

one restaurant, where you can eat for a lot of money :)

but atleast everythign feels like totally icy and provide you a unique winter experience

one chapel

a lot of poeple get married in there, maybe some good idea for somebody?

and some places for creative artists,to present some of their works(topic and theme changes every year, this year it was comic and media)

And of course there should be no ANGRY BIRDS missing :)

an integrated sound level indication bar :)

Some random sculptures in one of the restaurant rooms

again the Angry Birds

Ahhh I love those Angry Birds :D :D :D

and also some very impressive ice sculptures :)

To sleep there was a quite nice experience. The room was about -5°C cold, and almost completely dark.
It took some time to get in those sleepingbags, because you really had to be cover yourself totally except a small window for your face to breath.

Luckily we had some really warm sleeping bags, but you could not move very well with it. While I was trying to sleep, I thought , hey let s keep some more space on your face...3 min later I could feel the freezing air on my lips, it felt like they were totally stuck in cold water.

But before you go to sleep in a Icehotel, you should also be a little bit creative and try some things out: