Now the winter months are upon us, thoughts for many are turning to a ski holiday - and hotel accommodation with a difference at specially made ice hotels in Europe and North America.
And the European ski country of Andorra is hoping to attract tourists with a ski holiday package is booked through an English or Irish tour operator.
The Andorran ice hotel will be the most southerly seated ice hotel in the world. Snowboarding and other popular winter sports, with details available at the tourist office in the capital Andorra la Vella - in fact they are planning to build the Pyrenees' first every ice hotel.
Ice hotels are quite simply what their name implies - hotels carved out of ice. All ice hotels are rebuilt every year. All walls, carvings, sculptures and furniture are made entirely out of ice.