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The Ice Hotel opened on New Year's Day in 2001, located in Duchesnay resort in Quebec City.
It is the first ice hotel in North America and is built each December for an opening date in early January. The hotel has a four-month lifespan each year before being brought down in April. It has 85 beds, all made of ice but lined with deer furs and covered with mattresses and Arctic sleeping bags. Only the bathrooms are heated and located in a separate insulated structure.
It takes about a month and a half to build with 60 workers. The Hotel makes its own snow using a special mixture to adjust the humidity. It is built with metal frames, it is allowed to harden for a few days, and then the cranes are removed.
The hotel is made of 15,000 tons of snow and 500,000 tons of ice and the walls are up to four feet thick.The hotel has been described as a "tourist hotspot" and is backed by Quebec's tourism department. Tours are available in French or English, seven days a week, and the hotel is otherwise open to the public.There is a chapel where weddings are celebrated. The Ice Hotel has been described as one of the "10 dream wedding locations."
