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Amazing Race 6 Hotel Report: Hotel Ice Bar

Where: Stockholm, Sweden

The Nordic Sea Hotel is right next to the train station; a short walk from Old Town Stockholm, and a sleek modern hotel, but what we care most about this week is that the property made a cameo on The Amazing Race.

The Amazing Race contestants found themselves at the Nordic Sea Hotel in Stockholm Sweden.  The cast quickly headed to the lobby of the hotel, where they donned furry coats, hats, and gloves, and headed into the Absolut Ice Bar.  While the Eskimo get up may have seemed overkill, it wasn't.  The bar is an architectural marvel, totally made of ice, and kept at a chil 20° Fahrenheit.  Everything in the bar is made of ice.  Shot glasses, bar, benches, art on the walls, ice, ice, and yup you guessed it, ice.  

Before you run off to this hotel and bar, remember, if you want to visit at night, you better make reservations well in advance.  First, the bar is extremely popular with tourists and guests alike.  Second, the bar is very strict about capacity issues.  You know how most bars have to worry about staying under fire code capacity?  Well Absolut Ice Bar has to worry about staying under melting code capacity.  It is actually part of the reason you have to wear the warm furry clothes, it helps protect the ice bar from your potentially ice melting body heat.

So if you like the cold, and want to have a frigid experience, head to the Nordic Sea Hotel lobby and saddle up to the ice bar, just make sure you don't lick anything metal while you are in there, oh wait, it is all ice, forget it.

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