Quebec on ice

The idea of an ice hotel might conjure pictures of a series of interconnected igloos, or rooms with austere angles formed from shimmery translucent bricks, an exotic sleepy retreat nestled north in Scandanavian lapland where, after a few shots of Absolut to warm the blood, you hunker down and somehow survive death-inducing temperatures.
Hotel de Glace isn’t that. First of all, it’s in North America, the continent’s only ice hotel located in Quebec’s Village Vacances