Let's go to the Ice Hotel in July...oh Wait!

I first heard about the ice hotel a number of years ago and was fascinated with the concept but never really looked into it any further. I saw an ad for the Ice Hotel recently on my internet startup page. For those of you who have never heard of the Ice Hotel, it is a hotel located in Quebec, Canada made fully from ice, not to mention it is an incredibly expensive and a chilly selection for an overnight stay, but none the less it is undoubtedly mesmerizing. The hotel is a beautiful piece of artwork in itself with 18 foot ceilings and hanging ice candelabras with brilliant hallways, luxury suites, a spa and sauna. I know what you are probably thinking, isn’t the Ice Hotel well, cold? Yes, in fact it is, but much warmer than you may think. The thickness of the walls acts as an insulator to the hotel, therefore even on a very cold day the inside will at it’s coldest be -4 degrees Celsius. I was looking at the hotel in detail and started to wonder; is this hotel a place, or in fact a space? At first I did not even question it and assumed the hotel was a place. I then started to wonder, because of this particular hotels unique characteristics it may actually be a space. The hotel disappears as the snow flakes turn into raindrops and the white fluffy ground becomes green again. I found an article, (http://www.lejacquescartier.com/article-68233-The-7th-Season-of-the-Ice-Hotel-Has-Launched.html) which talks about the ice hotels annual construction during the winter season. This article is what made me really think of the hotel in terms of a space and place. I came to a more of less fuzzy conclusion that the Ice Hotel is both a space and place depending on the time of year. A hotel in general fits the definition of a place, but what is tricky about classifying the Ice hotel is that it is only a place for a few months of the year (and that’s only if the weather is cold enough for it to stay a solid!).