Ice Bar is a bar made entirely of ice, located in the lobby of the Nordic C Hotel, Vasaplan Street, Stockholm, Sweden. It is located just a few hundred meters from the central train station and Stockholm City Hall. With a maximum capacity of 60 guests, the Ice Bar is small but extremely interesting.
The bar is kept at -5°C all year round. Everything inside the Ice Bar, from the walls to the tables, chairs, decorations and glasses, is made from 40 tonnes of pure, transparent ice from the Torne glacier in northern Sweden.
This bar is open all year round. However, you should still make a reservation because it is always crowded with local and foreign visitors. Visitors can stay for 45 minutes at a time, but most people only stay for about 30 minutes because it is too cold.
When you arrive, the staff will give you a robe, a hood, and gloves to keep you warm. There are small tables inside but no chairs because they don't want customers sitting on cold benches.
Ticket prices (including warm clothes and drinks) are 160 to 180 SEK (about 370,000 - 420,000 VND) for adults and 50 SEK (about 120,000 VND) for children with non-alcoholic drinks
At Ice Bar, there is not a wide selection of whisky, but focuses on creative drinks and cocktails based on liqueurs (Absolut). In return, the abundance of ingredients such as flowers, fresh fruits, herbs... will give you a light but impressive cocktail experience.
The first ice bar was built in the fall of 1989 at the Ice Hotel in northern Sweden. Every year, the Ice Hotel melts, and a new, larger, more modern hotel is built in the fall. A few years ago, the Ice Hotel developers came up with the idea of opening a permanent ice bar that could be open all year round in Stockholm.
In June 2002, the world's first permanent ice bar was built at the Nordic C Hotel in Stockholm, to coincide with Stockholm's 750th anniversary. In its first year, over 70,000 people visited the Ice Bar, and that number continues to grow each year.
Initially, the ice blocks were hand-cut from the Torne glacier. Later, the Ice Hotel and Ice Bar became so popular that a factory and production line were built to produce frozen ice. Over 1 million ice blocks are used at the Ice Hotel and Ice Bar each year. Today, many cities around the world, even cruise ships, have ice bars.
