"How does a hot sauna work if the walls are ice?' The Arctic snow hotel near Rovaniemi, Finland, offers such an experience. With the solid ice walls the infrared sauna technology is not well suited. Therefore, a traditional sauna stove with hot rocks is heated outside the ice room. When the user is ready to enter, the sauna stove is taken inside."
The Gondola Sauna
In addition to being the longest lift in Finland at 2km, the new Ylläs lift also offers a VIP cabin and - uniquely - a sauna cabin, which is heated by an electrical connection when the sauna cabin is in the lift station. To use the sauna, guests kit themselves out with swimwear while the sauna cabin is in the base station, which is then linked into the main lift system. Soon infrared Sauna will be available in similar fashion. The round trip lasts 13 minutes; just in case, warm clothes and a fire extinguisher are also packed into the cabin.
Sauna Boat
A 36 tonne boat with a sauna on it. The sauna on the boat can entertain quite a few guests, holding up to 20 people. The boat also has a grill cabin which can hold 20-25 people. The sauna boat, which patrols the Larsmo lake in west Finland is rentable and can be used any time of year. After a sauna session in the summer hot steamy users can jump off into the refreshing lake to cool down. In the winter it is still possible to jump in, but be warned, it may be extremely cold!
A typical four hour trip costs around €350 while this expense is large when compared to a home far infrared saunas, if the cost is split between 20 people it becomes fairly reasonable.
