The Hotel de Glace, located outside Quebec City, is North America's only ice hotel, and its unique and novel nature have firmly planted it atop winter's once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Understanding ...

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing or L'As ...

The "Perce-Neige" theme suite is named for a snow-piercing plant that blooms in late winter. About a third of the hotel's 40+ rooms are theme suites, with no two alike. Hôtel de Glace features 32,000 ...

When Hôtel de Glace’s Jacques Desbois first read about Sweden’s Ice Hotel back in 1996, he immediately realized, “If they can do it in Sweden, we can do it here in Québec, the snow capital of the ...

If sleeping on an ice bed sounds tempting to you (or maybe you're just insanely intrigued by the idea of anyone doing it), then stay tuned. On a recent trip to Quebec City, Canada, I had the ...

I recently spent the night in a hotel in Canada made entirely of snow and ice. While many things about the unusual experience surprised me — first and foremost that the sleeping bag provided actually ...

’Tis the season. No, not for winter holidays – for ice hotels. From Canada to Finnish Lapland and even Zermatt, the year’s most frigid travel novelty has returned to the frozen tundra across the ...

Ahead of my overnight stay at the ice hotel, or Hôtel de Glace, outside Quebec City, Canada, all I could think about was how cold and miserable I would be. I was so consumed by planning an outfit that ...

When I first heard about the Hôtel de Glace, North America’s only ice hotel and chapel, I pictured something isolated, elegant, and icy-looking — maybe a big, white, Frozen-esque castle in the woods ...

Whether staying in a hotel made entirely out of ice and snow sounds like a dream or a nightmare, there’s no denying that it’s a rare experience. And while the original ice hotel opened in Sweden in ...