News reaches In Your Pocket this morning that consistently freezing temperatures over the past 10 days have facilitated an early start on construction of the Ice Hotel at Balea Lac, at an altitude of 2034 metres up in Romania's Fagaras Mountains.
The hotel - the third to be built in Romania - is nothing like as luxurious as its famous counterpart in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, but will this year feature ten spacious rooms, named after the nine planets of the solar system and... Krypton. Prices start at 178.00 leu (about €65) for a double.
As last year the hotel will also host a bar and club, and an ice church will be built in time for Orthodox Christmas, on January 7.
To reserve a room call Cabana Balea Lac on (+4)0745 07 26 02.
