This U.S. Vacation spot Well-known for Its Northern Lights Is Getting Gorgeous Glass Lodges

Take the nature-bonding factor of forest bathing and mix it with the panorama immersion of glass domes, and sprinkle it with luxurious lodging and a distant location match for full disconnection, and you’ve got Panorama Glass Lodges. 

Since 2017, these cabins with translucent floor-to-ceiling partitions surrounding beds have been offering guests with the comfortable comforts of a non-public rental together with an all-encompassing publicity to the pure magnificence with areas in South Iceland in Hella and West Iceland in Akranes.

The idea has been such a success that homeowners Sabrina and Andreas Dedler have expanded to 2 different high-latitude locations. Each spots are equally otherworldly and supply company the prospect to identify the Northern Lights, as effectively.

One is Tromsø, Norway, which was the following logical place so as to add to the portfolio. Teaming up with hospitality model Aera Nord, identified for its dedication to sustainability and privateness, the spot opened final 12 months. The situation is dedicated to “merging luxurious, seclusion, and nature right into a seamless tapestry,” the corporate described in a launch shared with Journey + Leisure.

Every cabin has a bathe, fridge, dishwasher, kettle, and bathroom. However after all, it’s the glass partitions that outline the expertise. In addition to the glass lodges, it additionally presents glass cabins, igloos, and one-bedroom cabins. Each keep contains an a la carte breakfast in mattress, snowshoe leases, sauna entry, and a rental automobile.

The most recent spot will open its doorways in Fairbanks, Alaska, in April, marking the corporate’s first U.S. location. The Scandinavian influences nonetheless reign sturdy in a partnership with Wilding Lodges, providing each deluxe rooms with a king-sized mattress and sofa, and customary rooms with a queen mattress. Each variations embody a fully-equipped kitchen, in-suite theater, rainfall bathe or soaking tub, heated towel racks, fireplace pit, hammock, non-public sauna, and pizza oven. This location additionally presents resort facilities, together with a consolation station, group areas, lookout factors, and climbing trails, relying on the season.

“The lodge’s strategic location permits company to take pleasure in unobstructed views of the northern lights from the consolation of their beds and even whereas soaking of their scorching tub,” the corporate mentioned. “The glass partitions and ceilings of every lodge are designed to create a totally immersive expertise, permitting company to really feel as in the event that they’re part of the panorama itself.”

Panorama Glass Lodges is seeking to proceed spreading its world affect, with extra areas in Iceland, in addition to increasing its partnership with Aera Nord. It has additionally began providing bigger areas: the West Iceland location has a household lodge referred to as Frigg that may sleep as much as 5 individuals.

“The sky shouldn’t be the restrict; it’s only the start,” the corporate mentioned of those newfound partnerships.