Snow Hotel - general information for the overnight stay

Photo: Snow Hotel Kirkenes

Photo: Snow Hotel Kirkenes

Photo: Snow Hotel Kirkenes

Photo: Snow Hotel Kirkenes

Photo: Terje Rakke, Nordic Life/Innovation Norway

Luggage:
Your main luggage will be stored at the Rica Kirkenes hotel, as it will be frozen after a night inside the snow of the Snow Hotel. Bring only a small night bag with you, where your important belongings are kept during the Snow Suite night.

Clothing
Bring with you: long thermal woollen underwear, pullover, hat and socks. In the Arctic Climate you need to bring extra layers to keep yourself warm.
Included in the price: Warm outdoor clothing: thermal suit, hat, mittens and winter boots are included in the price of overnight in the Snow Hotel. You will also get a sleeping bag, sheets, woolen socks and a woolen night hat for the night in the Snow Hotel.

Overnight & facilities at the Snow Hotel:
In the Snow Suite there are normal beds with normal mattresses and reindeer-hides to keep your back warm during the night. Beds are surrounded by ice blocks. You will be sleeping inside the sleeping bag. The guide at the Snow Hotel will explain how to sleep inside the sleeping bag.
Your outdoor clothing is good to set as a roll under your head or between the mattress and sleeping bag. More comfortable to put them on again in the morning!
There are curtains as a door in every Snow Suite.
Temperature is between -4 and -6 Celsius degrees.
Restaurant & meals:
Next to the Snow Hotel there is a warm Lavvo restaurant, where breakfast and dinner is served.
There is a Snow Bar to warm you up before sleeping in the Snow Hotel, but it is not advisable to drink too much before going to sleep.

In the Lavvo restaurant there is one room with a few beds, just in case a person does not feel comfortable sleeping inside the snow hotel. In the Lavvo restaurant there is staff present during the night time to secure safe overnight in the Snow Suite

Shower, sauna & toilet facilities:
The Snow Hotel is located in the suburban wilderness. Toilets (electric- and bio toilets), which are heated, are outside of the Snow Suite. You need to walk appr 50 meters to get there. There is no running water, but you can wash your hands in the rest room facilities.
Sauna and shower facilities are in the Rica Kirkenes Hotel, 1 km from Kirkenes Snow hotel. There are towels in the changing room for the overnighters use.
The sauna is normally ready for the overnighters use at 09 00 am depending on your schedule.
It is not allowed to smoke or make fire inside any facility of the Kirkenes Snow hotel.

CHILDREN: The staff at the Snow Hotel will assess each child's suitability to the cold environment inside the Snow Hotel following an hour or so spent there. Any child not comfortable in the Snow Hotel will be looked after by our Snow Hotel staff inside the warm Lavvo next door to the Snow Hotel.
Parents are however fully responsible for the welfare and comfort of their children.

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