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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (12323)	4/5/2001 8:06:31 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 13572

Thursday, April 5, 2001 Ice Hotel Now Too Hot to Handle QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - North America's first ice hotel was a red-hot success in its first year but now it's too hot to handle. It's about to be dismantled before it starts to melt on its guests. The Ice Hotel in Canada's oldest city opened to wide publicity in January and attracted 1,500 guests and -- three times more than expected, its owners said on Wednesday. The hotel, built of 4,500 tonnes of snow and 250 tonnes of ice, will be torn down by a bulldozer on Thursday. It will be rebuilt in time for next year's season. The hotel, which cost C$750,000 ($478,000) to build, attracted 40,000 visitors. "It has been a success all the way. We are more than satisfied and we envisage with enthusiasm next season," owner Francis Leonard told Reuters. The hotel's facilities included a bar, a cinema and two art galleries containing ice sculptures with Canadian Arctic themes, as well as executive suites. The cost -- C$150 ($96) per person a night -- included a hot breakfast and a sleeping bag on top of animal fur for the ice bed. Guests who braved the chilly conditions came from all over the world, including the United States, South Africa, Japan, France, Germany and Britain. Next year's edition will be four times bigger, about the size of two football fields, and will be able to accommodate 85 guests. The ice hotel concept was imported from Sweden, where what was billed as the world's first ice hotel was constructed about a decade ago in Jukkasjarvi.