Situated about 20 miles northeast of Old Québec near the Jacques-Cartier River, Village Vacances Valcartier lures families and travelers looking for a fun day trip or short getaway. The resort began ...

There are several ice hotels in the frozen region of Scandinavia, but Hotel de Glace is North America’s only ice hotel. Made from 15,000 tons of snow and 500,000 tons of ice, the hotel takes 60 ...

For the past 13 years, Hotel de Glace has transformed a field outside of Quebec City into a winter wonderland for all ages. Hotel de Glace’s artistic theme this year is “journey to the center of ...

The "Perce-Neige" theme suite is named for a snow-piercing plant that blooms in late winter. About a third of the hotel's 40+ rooms are theme suites, with no two alike. Hôtel de Glace features 32,000 ...

The Hotel de Glace, located outside Quebec City, is North America's only ice hotel, and its unique and novel nature have firmly planted it atop winter's once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Understanding ...

The Hotel de Glace in Quebec just might be the coolest hotel in the world. Either way, it’s the only ice hotel in North America. The hotel is a temporary structure that only exists for a few months ...

I had a Ski-Doo Accident shortly before I bedded down in a spectacular sub-zero spaceship made entirely of ice and snow. That’s the cold truth. Actually I grasped my mittened hands around the Ski-Doo ...

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It sounds more like a dare than a vacation: Spend a night in a hotel with no bathrooms or amenities, where the temperature inside is kept at 12 degrees below the point where water freezes. The ...

Winter is coming, so why not lean into the most wintry of winter vacations? Each year, Canada's Hotel de Glace opens for the winter season. Slated to open next January, and run through March 2019, the ...