Kakslauttanen Hotel and Igloo Village, Kakslauttanen, Finland - Prestige Property

Kakslauttanen Hotel and Igloo Village, Kakslauttanen, Finland - Prestige Property

  

About Kakslauttanen Hotel and Igloo Village

Glass igloos for watching Northern Lights in comfort

Igloo living with both snow and glass igloo's available offering cold or warm night sleep as required.

Hotel Kakslauttanen is the home of the famous Igloo Village with the unique Glass and Snow Igloos and a World's Largest Snow Restaurant. In addition their guests can enjoy all the other Lappish winter activities including the Northern Lights (Aurora borealis) visible generally from late August to late April. Surrounded by Lapland's exotic and stunning scenery, not only can guests sample the peace of sleeping in snow (the snow muffles sound, and provides a great night's sleep), their glass igloos are fantastic for lying on your bed at night, watching the Northern Lights in the warm. 

Hotel Kakslauttanen

Log Cabin 

Each cabin is equipped with a fireplace, shower/toilet, kitchenette, own sauna and some cabins have a traditional Finnish rocking chair. The cabins are located sufficiently far apart so that each one has its own peaceful garden area.

                                   

Queen Suite

Spacious and modern with a charming touch, Queen Suite will satisfy the needs of the most demanding guests. In addition to the standard equipment found in a standard log cabin, Queen Suite features a luxurious bath room and an outside hot tube.

Honeymoon Turf Chamber

Honeymoon Turf Chamber has been built in a traditional way using stripped birch covered with a half-meter layer of turf providing extreme warmness even in a harshest winter. Equipped a cozy bedroom with a fireplace and a Las Vegas-style bathroom featuring a glowing stars ceiling with the Pole Star located right over the bathtub. The Finnish sauna is naturally present too. The bathroom bears the mark of Versace, while the bedroom is by Fagun of Finland.

Igloo Village

 

In winter Igloo Village Kakslauttanen offers a possibility to enjoy a range of unique winter recreation activities like spending a night in a snow or glass igloo, dining in a snow restaurant, admiring ice marvels in the Ice Gallery or getting married in our highly popular snow chapel. Igloo Village lies in a close proximity of Kakslauttanen, just on the other side of the spring. There are 20 glass igloos, 60 beds in snow igloos and an one of a kind glass kota. The snow restaurant provides seating for 50-150 people. Igloo Village is open each year between December and January depending on the weather conditions and stays open until the end of April.

Snow Igloo

Imagine yourself sleeping completely surrounded by snow. The silence is enchanting and lights inside the ice cast mysterious shadows on the snow walls. The breathtaking atmosphere lulls you into a deep, comfortable sleep in your warm down sleeping bag. The temperature inside the snow igloo stays always between -3°C and -6°C. Besides a warm down sleeping bag (rated extreme temperature is -32°C), woollen socks and a hood are provided , so that you will never feel cold. 

Glass Igloo

Glass igloo provides an one of a kind opportunity to admire the northern lights and millions of stars of the crystal clear Lapp sky in a comfortable room temperature. Based on a groundbreaking idea and years of research and development, glass igloos are a marvel of modern technology. Built from a special thermal glass the temperature inside the igloo always stays at a normal level. It also prevents the glass from not getting white frosted, hence keeping the view clear even when the temperature outside drops to under -30°C. Every igloo is equipped with a toilet and luxury beds. On every evening a hot sauna and a refreshing ice hole are waiting for you.

Glass Kota

Glass Kota is a heated building in the shape of a traditional Lapp teepee, 8 metres high and 8 metres wide. Made of the space special thermal glass as glass igloos, Glass Kota offers an unobscured view of the beautiful Lapp night sky and the magical northern lights. Snow chapel is situated nearby, making Glass Kota an ideal place for a cocktail party before or after the wedding. What could be more amazing than to sip a cold drink inside the warm Glass Kota during a snowstorm. Glass Kota has also its own altar suitable for wedding ceremonies.

                                                                

Dog Bark Park Inn, Cottonwood, Idaho, USA - Bed & Breakfast

Dog Bark Park Inn, Cottonwood, Idaho, USA - Bed & Breakfast

 

"This is a magical place, whimsical yet refined."

 

Dog Bark Park Inn is a bed & breakfast guesthouse inside the World's Biggest Beagle. Guests enter the body of the beagle from a private 2nd story deck. Some of the dog's decorative furnishings are carvings by Dog Bark Park chainsaw artists Dennis & Frances. Inside and up another level to the head of the dog is a loft room with additional sleeping space plus a cozy alcove in the muzzle.
  

About Dog Bark Park Inn

The worlds largest Beagle, offering unique accommodation inside it's 2 story body.

Sleep in a dog!
This whimsical B+B offers two fantastic connected rooms in a one-of- kind wooden dog. Even the toilet is disguised as a fire hydrant!!

With the two big dogs signaling your arrival to Dog Bark Park visitors may walk the grounds, browse the gift shop and artists' studio featuring the whimsical chainsaw artwork of husband and wife artists Dennis and Frances. Canine carvings are a specialty although visitors are apt to find fish, feline, bear, moose and Lewis & Clark themed carvings as well. At Dog Bark Park the artists enjoy sharing dog, travel and life stories as well as assisting visitors in planning their vacations.

Dennis J. Sullivan, a self-taught chainsaw artist, has been carving for over twenty years. Frances joined him fifteen years ago and has also learned chainsaw carving. Their "big break" came in 1995 when carvings were sold on QVC television. They did nothing but carve wooden dogs for 18 months (their children barely remember seeing them during those days!). They made what seemed like a bundle of money, invested it all in developing and building Dog Bark Park where visitors most likely will find them happily creating art until, like the pine they use, life returns them to the earth.

At Dog Bark Park they specialize in creating folk-art style wooden canine carvings. Dennis and Frances create over 60 different breeds and poses of dogs and often work from customer's photos to create carvings in the likeness of their canine companions.

    

 

More about Dog Bark Park

Dog Bark Park is home to Toby and Sweet Willy, the World's Two Biggest Beagles. Toby, a 12-foot tall beagle statue, was built by Dog Bark Park artists Dennis Sullivan and Frances Conklin.

Sweet Willy, officially known as Dog Bark Park Inn, is one of America's latest additions to the type of roadside architecture popular in the early days of automobile vacation travel when travelers would often buy gas, eat meals or stay overnight in a building that looked like something else. Remember coffee pot or teacup gas stations, milk bottle shaped restaurants or the shoe and duck houses? For today's travelers Dog Bark Park Inn offers a glimpse into those bygone days with all the comforts of our modern days. 

Hours of operation: *Open year round. Monday - Sunday 11am-4pm.

With the two big dogs signaling your arrival to Dog Bark Park, visitors may walk the grounds, browse the gift shop and artists' studio featuring the whimsical chainsaw artwork of husband/wife artists Dennis and Frances. Canine carvings are a specialty although visitors are apt to find fish, feline, bear, moose and Lewis & Clark themed carvings as well.

At Dog Bark Park we enjoy sharing dog, travel and life stories as well as assisting visitors in planning their vacations.

Baumhaus Hotel, Neißeaue, Germany - Bed & Breakfast

Baumhaus Hotel, Neißeaue, Germany - Bed & Breakfast

 

Child Friendly Treehouses in Eastern Germany

Choose one of 5 cosy tree houses situated 8m to 10m up a tree in a fantastic recreational park outside Görlitz. First open in June 2005, it is arguable whether it is the first tree house hotel in Germany or the craziest.

These 2 storey dwellings are furnished in a crazed rustic style, with brightly coloured walls and off-angle windows and are sure to entertain. Odd shaped beds are the norm here as you won’t find any straight walls. Each tree house contains an ‘emergency toilet’, but if only for the sake of the cleaners, a central toilet block is provided on one of the lower decks with running water. The central area also contains a particularly German addition – a mini bar filled with beer ready for evening guest celebrations.

Tree houses additionally share an extraordinary open air, chilled water shower with a metal grid floor, so you can see the ground below you. Whether this is for health reasons, for waking up, or perhaps because of the provision of the guest mini bar is unknown.

Tree houses have small balconies and each treehouse is themed according to the regional tradition and myths of trolls and fairy folk.