Placeholder canvas

North Pole fanatic? You can stay at this Igloo-themed hotel for $100,000!

Date:

Ever dream of vacationing at the North Pole? It’s a travel experience so unique, it only takes place one month every year!

A Finnish luxury travel company is set to open a movable hotel at the North Pole that offers a rare and eco-conscious experience for the adventurous traveler who can swing the roughly $100,000 price tag for up to five nights’ stay. The North Pole Igloos are slated to welcome its first guests in 2020 and will operate yearly every April.

Representational Image

The once-in-a-lifetime experience is the brainchild of Janne Honkanen, founder and CEO of Luxury Action, a high-end travel company specializing in arctic excursions. Honkanen said guests at the company’s luxury wilderness lodge in the Finnish Lapland region were increasingly interested in knowing more about nature in the Arctic, which prompted the creation of the North Pole experience.

“I thought that this is the time and the opportunity to give a chance for my guests to experience the North Pole with arctic explorers and scientists in a safe way,” Honkanen wrote.

ALSO READ: This step can solve overcrowding and help visitors explore Taj Mahal

Guests at the North Pole Igloos will stay in one of 10 heated, glass-walled igloos at night, where they can gaze at the stars, and probably the Northern Lights, through glass ceilings. During the day, travelers will sight-see around a glacier, meet indigenous people who live in the polar regions and arctic scientists working nearby, and hopefully catch sightings of seals, polar bears, arctic birds and other wildlife, Honkanen said.

Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist with the Earth Science and Observation Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said travelers in April can expect “dim and twilight-y” daylight hours in the North Pole, where the sun is very low in the sky and temperatures range from minus-20 to minus-40.

“It’s not for the fainthearted,” Scambos said.

He noted that the experience is limited to the month of April before the North Pole’s most “hard core” weather, but before the summer melt sets in. The three- to five-night excursion (depending on weather) begins in Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean, with only one night spent at the North Pole itself.

“In April it’s really safe and nice to travel; [otherwise] we’re speaking about extreme conditions,” Honkanen told The Washington Post by phone from Finland. The complex conditions, remoteness and short window for viable travel make the pole “the most exclusive travel destination on the planet.”

He compared the scenery from the North Pole’s frozen ice floe in the middle of the Arctic as one most people only see from the sky: “It’s like looking out an airplane window and floating on the clouds with the baby blue sky around you.”

The package includes air travel from the Lapland region to the North Pole, a camp manager, arctic wilderness guide, chef services, security and even thermal clothing.

His goal is to introduce travelers to the Arctic’s rare ecosystem and get them to evaluate their own role in climate change – and hopefully, spread the message to others.

He noted that climate change is already having an impact on the fragile arctic ecosystem by affecting the food chain, wildlife and groups such as reindeer herders and arctic fishermen whose livelihoods rely on the relative stability of the local environment.

(With Agency Inputs)

Click here for Latest News updates and viral videos on our AI-powered smart news genie

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Share post:

Subscribe

Popular

More like this
Related

About 80,000 Leaders, Workers From Different Parties Join BJP Ahead Of Lok Sabha Elections

New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming general elections 2024,...

Arvind Kejriwal’s ED Custody Extended Till April 1

New Delhi: The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi extended...

Fact Check: Mohan Bhagwat-Led RSS NOT Supporting INDIA Bloc

A video alleging that the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh...

India’s ‘Election King’ Prepares For 239th Bid Despite Record Of Defeats

New Delhi: K Padmarajan, a 65-year-old tyre repair shop...