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Winter wedding at Alta Igloo, Norway

from £2,050 per person

Make Your Vows Surrounded by Ice

Imagine a winter wonderland setting, where the Arctic landscape is covered in a thick blanket of snow. Amidst this is a chapel made completely of ice and snow – a magical setting with an enchanting atmosphere – for the experience of a lifetime on the most memorable day of your life. Or if you prefer, you can get married in a romantic wooden chapel. The bride can arrive in a sleigh pulled by reindeer or huskies, or if you prefer a faster mode of transport.....by snowmobile! You can spend your wedding night in an intimate log cabin, in an igloo surrounded by the pristine arctic snows, in an ice room or in a normal heated honeymoon suite.

Alta Igloo Hotel is constructed afresh every year, and next winter’s will be the 10th in the series. For the 6th time - the hotel all made of ice - will also contain an ice chapel.

The price includes return flights inc. all airport taxes and fuel surcharges, private transfers within Alta, 3 nights at Hotel Vica, breakfasts and dinners of which one is 3 course wedding dinner and aperitif, return transfers from Alta to Alta Igloo, 1 night at Bridal igloo at Alta Igloo, wedding at Alta Igloo (inc. hire of ice chapel and parish fees) and snowmobile safari to Finnmarksvidda. It is possible to book photographer, hair dresser and wedding flowers with an additional cost. You can extend your holiday in Alta or Oslo.

If you have guests joining you, please contact us for guest quotations.

Departures end of January to early April 2010.

Please contact us for winter 2011 availability and prices.

 

ITINERARY

Day 1

Fly to Alta via Oslo with SAS and transfer to Hotel Vica in Alta for check-in.
Dinner is served in the hotel.

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel. The bridal couple meets the pastor to discuss the wedding ceremony. Rest of the day is free for optional excursions.

Dinner and overnight at Hotel Vica.

Day 3

Your big day! After breakfast there is time to have a hairdresser (if desired).

In the afternoon you’ll be transferred to Alta Igloo Hotel for the wedding. The wedding will take place in the Ice Chapel. After the ceremony there is time for photography (photographer with an extra cost) before enjoying an aperitif in the Ice Bar.

At 7 o’clock the wedding dinner is served in Restaurant Laksestua. The menu can for example be creamy salmon soup, reindeer steak and cloudberry cake.

The wedding couple will spend their wedding night in an ice Bridal suite.

Day 4
Warm up in the sauna and have breakfast at the Igloo hotel

At 10 o’clock you’ll set off for a snowmobile safari on the Finnmarksvidda. Lunch is served en route in the wilderness.

Transfer back to Alta town centre and dinner and overnight at Hotel Vica

Relax in hotel’s Jacuzzi, hopefully under the Northern Lights!

Day 5

Breakfast and return transfer to Alta airport
Fly home via Oslo with SAS.

Hotel, Activity and Local Information

Sorrisniva Igloo hotel (Alta Igloo)

The temperatures inside the Igloo remain constant between minus 4 and minus 7 degrees centigrade.You will sleep on natural reindeer hide mattresses and special sleeping bags designed to keep you warm in temperatures down to minus 30 degrees centigrade.

The hotel is decorated with superb ice-sculptures and outside in the 'relax area' there are two heated whirlpools where you can sit under the starry skies and hopefully view the Northern Lights overhead.

Vica Hotel

Thon Hotel Vica is the ideal hotel for those who want good personal service in cosy surroundings. Our guests are accommodated in 24 warm and welcoming high-standard rooms, and can enjoy the use of our outdoor relaxing area while looking at the beautiful Altafjord with its surrounding mountains. Relax in hot tubs (hopefully) under the Northern Lights!

 

Call our Reservations Team on 0203 119 3022 or click on the button right to send details of your enquiry online...


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