{"id":545,"date":"2021-02-22T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitalta.no\/en\/?post_type=article&p=545"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:58:00","slug":"sorrisniva-igloo-hotel","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/visitalta.no\/en\/article\/sorrisniva-igloo-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"The hotel that melts every spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tThe igloo hotel is located on the banks of the legendary Alta River. Here is everything made of ice; the rooms, the beds and the glasses in the bar.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n


The world’s northernmost ice hotel impresses both Norwegian and foreign tourists. The story goes back 21 years. A large entourage from Alta’s tourism was on a trip to Swedish Jukkasj\u00e4rvi, where the world’s first ice hotel was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General manager Tor Kjetil Wisl\u00f8ff and his brother decided that when they returned to Alta that they also wanted to try the same. This is how the idea of Norway’s first ice hotel was born. Along the way, they have built up good competence and knowledge around building ice hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locally docked<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As much as 2,500 square meters of igloo hotel are built up every year. The ice is collected from Skj\u00e6ravannet further up in the valley and the snow is produced by water from the Alta River. Step by step, the igloo hotel is being shaped. It takes about five weeks of hard work to complete the igloo hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The igloo hotel melts in May and the planning for next season’s ice hotel will begin in early autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

\n\t\t