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Japan's Ice Hotel Offers Night Hot Air Balloon Rides

Ice hotels aren't just popular in Canada and northern Europe. Japan's northern island of Hokkaido has The Alpha Resort Tomamu in the Shimukappu village. The village includes several dome structures lit by colored lights. There are also some features not usually seen in other ice hotels including an ice glass studio where you can chisel out your own ice glass. You can take your ice glass to the ice bar or the ice cafe. And to to get an overview of the glowing village you can take a quick ride in a hot-air balloon at night. The hotel experience costs 20,000 yen (around $242).

[via Wall Street Journal]

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Ice Hotel To Sell Space Flight Tickets

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Those whose taste runs to the exotic might be tempted to check out the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. The hotel already offers dog sled and snowmobile safaris but it will now sell space flights. Virgin Galactic will be offering trips from nearby Kiruna which is the northernmost city in Sweden. The trips should begin in 2012 and tourists can choose a summer trip in the ceaseless light of the midnight sun or a trip during the dark winter highlighted by the luminous aurora borealis. Tickets will likely cost around $200,000 for the trip.

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