Iglu-Dorf Igloo Hotel

This was it - Jan 1st 2008 was our chosen night for our family of four. We partly chose to ski at Engleberg (the “Town of Angels” in Switzerland, 45 mins from Lucerne) for one week because of the Igloo Hotel. So we had seen the Igloo Hotel whilst skiing and the day before I had dropped in to check the booking.

Crazy but worth doing – this is the only way to describe our stay. On the outside it looks anything but special but on the inside it is. Situated at 1800 metres and built out of snow this hotel has eleven guest rooms plus a large bar area, dining room and two whirlpools. The patterns sculpted into the walls of all the rooms and in the expensive rooms the additional ice sculptures really are outstanding. Evening dinner was a cheese fondue by candlelight with mulled wine or a welcome punch/kirsch combination. Fur rugs adorned the snow seats at the dining table and the artic sleeping bags were a necessity for sleeping on beds made if ice... more