Snow hotels, ice hotels and glass igloos for winter 2026/27

A snow hotel is a hotel built from snow and blocks of ice, usually rebuilt every winter, where you sleep at between about 0°C and -5°C on an ice bed under reindeer hides in an expedition sleeping bag. Bathrooms, luggage and showers are in a heated building next door. Our top pick is ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden: the original, open every winter since 1989, and the only property in this guide that runs both a new winter ice hotel and a year-round ice building, where the top suites have a private heated bathroom and sauna.

This guide covers seven snow and ice hotels and four resorts where you sleep warm under a glass roof. Every property was checked against its own website in October 2026 for 2026/27 season dates, room types and status. The order is our selection.

The 11 snow hotels and glass igloos compared

Rates are those printed on each property’s own website on 9 October 2026, before tax where stated, and change with dates. “Not published” means the site shows a price only inside its booking engine.

Accolades: none of these 11 holds a Michelin Key, and we found no Forbes Travel Guide rating for any of them. ICEHOTEL, Kakslauttanen and Arctic TreeHouse Hotel are in the Michelin Guide’s hotel selection without a Key (checked 9 October 2026; the 2026 Keys were announced on 18 September 2026). None of the restaurants is on the Michelin Guide’s 2026 star list for the Nordic countries. The closest Key hotel in Swedish Lapland is Arctic Bath in Harads (One Michelin Key, 12 rooms), which Michelin describes as suspended over a frozen river around an ice-cold plunge pool.

What a night in an ice hotel involves

• Curtains, not doors. ICEHOTEL’s ice rooms and art suites close with curtains.
• Luggage stays in the warm building. Arctic SnowHotel advises taking only essentials into a snow room because bags get cold and wet. ICEHOTEL gives each guest a locker or changing cubicle.
• Book one cold night. ICEHOTEL recommends one night on ice combined with nights in a warm room, ideally the cold night first or last so you change rooms only once.
• You get your room late. At Arctic SnowHotel day visitors tour every room until 20:00; overnight guests have exclusive use from 21:00.
• Age limits. Iglu-Dorf recommends overnight stays for children aged 6 and over.
• Year-round options. ICEHOTEL 365 (opened November 2016) and Snowhotel 365 at Kirkenes keep ice rooms at sub-zero temperatures through summer.

For Lapland hotels close to Santa Claus Village, see luxury Lapland Christmas hotels.

Snow and ice hotels

ICEHOTEL, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

• Season: ICEHOTEL 37, the 37th winter hotel, opens on 11 December 2026 and stays open to April, built from Torne River ice. ICEHOTEL 365 is open all year.
• Ice rooms: the winter hotel has 15 to 20 ice rooms and 12 art suites, each art suite designed by artists picked from more than 200 applicants. Ice rooms and art suites take double, triple or quadruple beds. ICEHOTEL 365 has 18 suites: nine art suites (27 m²) and nine deluxe suites (one Johka, four Hilla, four Jáuvre).
• Top suite: Deluxe Suite 365 Jáuvre, 40 m², with a private heated bathroom with shower, bathtub and sauna. Hilla suites have a private sauna; Johka has a private shower and toilet.
• Warm rooms: Kaamos hotel rooms (standard, superior and deluxe) and Arctic Cabins for up to three.
• Dining: The Veranda chef’s table serves a tasting menu.
• Rate: the opening package (two nights, 10 to 12 December 2026, airport transfer by dog sled, tour of ICEHOTEL 37 with the CEO) was SEK 25,995 per person and is sold out.
• Accolades: listed in the Michelin Guide; no Key.

Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel, Alta, Norway

• Season: open every year from 20 December to 31 March. Rebuilt each winter to a new theme from 250 tonnes of ice and 7,000 m³ of snow, over 2,500 m².
• Status: the hotel calls itself the world’s northernmost igloo hotel and the second of its kind to be built.
• Rooms and rates (winter 2026/27, per room): Igloo Room from NOK 4,070 (2 adults + 1 child); Igloo Family Room from NOK 5,775 (3 adults + 3 children); Igloo Suite from NOK 6,370 (2 adults + 1 child, sculpted to the season’s theme, extra-large ice bed).
• Dining: dinner for igloo guests in the Lavvu restaurant, built in the shape of a Sami tent; Maku restaurant in the Arctic Wilderness Lodge on the same site.
• Getting there: 30 minutes by car from Alta airport; Sorrisniva runs shared and private transfers. There is no wifi inside the igloo hotel.

Arctic SnowHotel & Glass Igloos, Rovaniemi, Finland

• Location: Lehtojärvi village, Lehtoahontie 27, outside Rovaniemi. The 2021 version of this guide placed it in Sinettä; the hotel gives Lehtojärvi.
• Snow hotel: opens 15 December 2026, open to 31 March 2027. Rebuilt every year since December 2008, with about 20 rooms for about 70 guests, plus an ice chapel, ice restaurant and ice bar. Room types: superior double (15 m²), superior triple (15 m²), double suite (20 m²), superior family room (21 m², sleeps 6) and family suite (30 m², sleeps 6).
• Glass igloos: 39 units, open from 1 September. Twin igloo 20 m² (1 to 3 guests) and family igloo 33 m² (1 to 5), both with motorised beds, a heated glass roof and an aurora alarm. Twin beds only; no doubles.
• Included: buffet breakfast, public Finnish sauna, aurora wake-up, and, for igloo guests, free entry to the snow hotel from 15 December to 31 March.
• Dining: three restaurants (Kota, Log and Ice) serve set three-course dinners.

Hôtel de Glace, Québec, Canada

• Season: 4 January to 13 March 2027 according to Québec City’s tourism office, and the hotel’s booking calendar starts on 4 January 2027. Ma vie à Montréal (3 October 2026) reported an opening on 26 December 2026; neither the tourism office nor the booking calendar shows that date.
• Location: Village Vacances Valcartier, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, north of Québec City. First opened in January 2001. Valcartier calls it the only ice hotel in the Americas.
• Rooms: 30 regular and themed suites. Regular suites have 1, 2 or 3 beds (the 3-bed suite has three queen beds and sleeps 6). Themed suites come with or without a fireplace. The Premium Suite has a fireplace and private spa; the Premium Deluxe Suite, the largest, adds a private sauna.
• Included: welcome cocktail in an ice glass, a room at Hôtel Valcartier the same night for luggage and showers, and the outdoor Nordic area with spas and saunas.
• Rate: suites from CAD 485 before tax (Valcartier website, 9 October 2026). A regular 1-bed suite on 4 January 2027 showed CAD 685.

Snow Resort Kirkenes, Norway

• Name change: formerly Snowhotel Kirkenes; now Snow Resort Kirkenes, with the ice building sold as Snowhotel 365.
• Season: the resort sells snow rooms all year at -4°C, each carved by ice sculptors.
• Status note: travel writer Megan Starr, visiting in July 2026, reported that the usual structure had been demolished and a temporary one built for summer 2026, with a new ice hotel not expected until late winter. Ask the resort which building you will sleep in before booking.
• Included: breakfast, a three-course dinner, and access to the reindeer, husky and puppy yard. A service building next to the snow hotel has a lounge, toilets, showers, sauna and luggage room.
• Warm rooms: Gamme cabins, modelled on Sami huts, open all year with underfloor heating, private bathroom and a panoramic window. New Fjord View Gamme cabins sit away from the main resort area.
• Rates: packages from NOK 11,000 (Spring Break); two nights with husky sledding and a king crab safari from NOK 14,600 (resort website, 9 October 2026).

Lapland Hotels SnowVillage, Kittilä, Finland

• Season: open 25 December 2026 to 4 April 2027, daily 10:00 to 22:00. Rebuilt every year near Ylläs from over 20 million kilos of snow and about 300,000 kilos of ice, on about two hectares. The theme is announced each autumn.
• What changed: in 2021 this guide described several ice rooms and heated cabins. For 2025/26 the overnight offer was one Luxury Ice Suite. Details for 2026/27 had not been published on 9 October 2026.
• Luxury Ice Suite (2025/26): €4,500 per night for two, including private access to the whole village from 22:00 to 10:00, a guided tour, a kota cabin with sauna, indoor hot tub and warm beds, a three-course dinner in the Ice Restaurant and breakfast. Booked by email.
• Getting there: a bus runs from Levi and Ylläs three times a day while the village is open.

Iglu-Dorf, Switzerland, Austria and Germany

• What it is: snow igloo villages rebuilt every winter in the Alps, with snow art by international artists, an igloo restaurant and a snow bar. Not in the 2021 guide; added as the main snow hotel option outside the Arctic.
• Locations and 2026/27 dates: Zermatt 19 December 2026 to 4 April 2027 (at 2,727 m, facing the Matterhorn); Gstaad 25 December to 4 April; Davos Klosters 26 December to 4 April; Innsbruck Kühtai 26 December to 29 March; Zugspitze 26 December to 4 April.
• Rooms: Classic, Family & Friends and Romantic Igloos, up to the Igloo Suite and Panorama Suite with a private whirlpool and bathrobes. Inside temperature -2°C to +2°C.
• Included: welcome drink, all-you-can-eat cheese fondue, a night walk or snowshoe trek, tea in your sleeping bag in the morning, breakfast, and a shared whirlpool and sauna. Hot tubs only at the Swiss sites; Kühtai and Zugspitze have a sauna only.
• Families: overnight stays recommended for children aged 6 and over.

Not covered in detail: Hunderfossen Snow Hotel near Lillehammer, Norway, with suites for 2, 4 or 6, next to a winter park that opens on 5 February 2027. The SnowCastle of Kemi in Finland no longer builds a snow hotel; its operator says the castle “has not been built in the area for years”.

Glass igloos and glass-roofed suites

Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort, Saariselkä, Finland

• Background: open since 1974; the resort says its glass igloos started in the Kelo-log chalet that now houses the East Village restaurant.
• Season: glass igloos are open from around the third week of August to around the end of April.
• Rooms: Small Glass Igloo 25 m² (up to 3, two single beds, shower and sauna); Large Glass Igloo 38 m² (up to 5); Kelo-Glass Igloo 90 m² (up to 6, sauna, fireplace, kitchenette, glass-roofed bedroom); log cabins of 45 to 82 m²; Queen Suite for two in a Kelo log cabin with fireplace, private sauna, bathtub and outdoor jacuzzi.
• Top room: Luxury Kelo-Glass Igloo, 310 m², up to 12 guests, with three log-chalet bedrooms and three glass-igloo bedrooms, each for two, plus a living room, kitchen and sauna section.
• Two villages: East and West Village are about 4 km apart. Most of the resort’s activities, including husky and reindeer safaris, take place in West Village, which also has the Aurora and Korsu restaurants.
• Saunas: three smoke saunas in East Village, the largest holding 200 guests, next to an ice pool.
• Accolades: listed in the Michelin Guide; no Key.

Glass Resort, Rovaniemi, Finland

• Location: in a forest inside Santa Claus Village, on the Arctic Circle. Family-owned.
• Rooms: 24 Premium Glass Apartments (44 m², 1 to 4 guests, glass-ceilinged loft, private sauna and outdoor hot tub); three Deluxe Glass Apartments (120 m², two bedrooms, up to 4 + 2, kitchen, sauna and hot tub).
• Top room: Premium Lodge, 320 m² on two floors, four ensuite bedrooms, up to 8 + 1, with sauna, hot tub, fireplace and lounge bar. Breakfast is served in the lodge; a private chef can cook dinner there on request.
• Included: breakfast, and from November a three-course à la carte dinner at Restaurant Gallis. Free airport transfer when booked direct.

Santa’s Igloos Arctic Circle, Rovaniemi, Finland

• Location: a few minutes’ walk from Santa Claus Village; 5 km from Rovaniemi airport and 10 km from the city.
• Rooms: Premium Igloo (19.2 m², two beds plus one extra); Premium Igloo with sauna (23.2 m², 10 igloos); Premium Igloo with alcove (28.2 m², 4 + 1, an extra bedroom without a glass roof, 10 igloos); Premium Igloo with hot tub (19.2 m², 2 igloos). All have floor heating, a heated glass roof and a tablet with an aurora alarm.
• Families: each sauna igloo connects to an alcove igloo through a door opened on request: two rooms with 2 + 1 and 4 + 1 beds.
• Dining: breakfast, and Restaurant Arctic Eye for dinner (17:00 to 22:00).

Arctic TreeHouse Hotel, Rovaniemi, Finland

• Rooms: suites on a steep wooded slope on the Arctic Circle, each built around a panoramic window rather than a glass roof. Michelin lists 60 rooms. The hotel marks ten years open in 2026.
• Room types: Arctic TreeHouse Suite (27 m², double or twin, nest bed for a third guest in 32 suites); Arctic GlassHouse (50 m², two bedrooms, fireplace, private sauna, 22 m² deck); ArcticScene Executive Suite (55 m², king bed, bedroom and living room, sauna, bath, room for three extra guests).
• Dining: Rakas restaurant; breakfast included in GlassHouse rates.
• Accolades: listed in the Michelin Guide; no Key. For other treehouse stays, see luxury treehouse hotels.

How we chose

The 2021 guide listed ten properties. All ten are still trading in October 2026 and stay in this version, with two caveats: Snow Resort Kirkenes’s ice building (see its note) and SnowVillage’s 2026/27 overnight offer, which is not yet published. Iglu-Dorf was added for snow hotels outside the Arctic. Facts come from each property’s own website, the Michelin Guide and Québec City’s tourism office, checked 9 October 2026. Snow hotels are rebuilt every year, so designs, themes and room counts change each season.