Would you vacation at the Ice Hotel in Lapland, Sweden in January?

[CTyankee]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-12/10/content_7290520.htm

My friend and former boss will be doing just that. She has a history of going on Extreme Vacations.

Just what I want in January: a place that is cold and always dark...

[Warpy]

1. I'd rather do it in August

Maybe some enterprising sort down in Tierra del Fuego will realize it's a great moneymaker for people sweltering in the northern hemisphere and pick the idea up.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Sure. But I think I saw a piece about this hotel on TV and the price was very high.

[On the Road]

3. If It Looks Like That James Bond Movie, I Would Go There

I understand it can be quite comfortable inside those things, and the light has a unique quality.

[ogneopasno]

4. I would love it. It looks like a blast.

[dysfunctional press]

5. definitely.

i'd love it.

[cali]

6. Not a chance. I live in a winter wonderland already.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Oh yeah!

[cbayer]

8. I have a group of friends that did it last winter.

You can't go in the summer, as it only exists in the winter.

They loved it because it was such a unique experience. Lapland in winter can be a magical place. Reindeer, dog sleds and indigenous people.

Here is a link with more information:

http://scantours.net/products/catgry.php5?id=25

:hi:

[zbdent]

9. I double-dog dare you to touch a pole with your tongue there!

[Ganja Ninja]

10. No way in hell.

If it's not somewhere around 80 degrees I'm not going.

[MineralMan]

11. Oh, sure...it's not nearly cold enough here in Minnesota.

That'd be wonderful.

[CTyankee]

13. My friend grew up in Grand Rapids, MI. I think she's impervious to the cold.

This is a woman who,in her 50s, rode on the back of her husband's Harley all the way to Cleveland from Connecticut. She's very athletic and in great shape at age 63.

[MineralMan]

18. I'm originally from California, so Minnesota

was a bit of a shock the first year. These days, I'm pretty unscarred by cold. It's about -3 degrees right now, and I just took a bag of trash out and picked up my recycling bin. No jacket...no hat. Just a corduroy shirt and jeans.

Still, when I have to work outside, clearing snow and the like, I don full winter gear...I look like a native, I'm sure, with the hat with ear flaps, the big parka and the huge mittens.

I'm 63, too. My knees hurt more this time of year, but there it is.

[LisaM]

12. Why not? I'll take along a copy of "The Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

and get all gloomy and terrified.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. This may be the last year there will be ice ... n/t

[supernova]

15. I'd visit for a drink

and to look around and marvel at it, but NO WAY would I want to stay there.

BRRRRR!

[EstimatedProphet]

16. I would.

[malaise]

17. No but watching them build one of them was very enjoyable

It's a work of art. The one I saw had lights.

Here's a nice one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NmLaFDJXKU

[FirstLight]

19. No way!

Tahoe is cold nough for me at this point...by february I am looking at real estate in the desert and having fantasies about warm poolside moments....

funny, I have lived here for 16 years, but never liked the snow

[Cleita]

20. Only if I were so rich and so jaded because I had done everything and been

everywhere, that it would be the only unique experience left to me.

[CTyankee]

21. I would just go back to places I had loved.

At this point in my life I have a lot of places on my "bucket list." Both new and places I've been to before.

Patagonia is going to be about as rough a trip as I can handle...hope to go there soon...