Sleep in an ice igloo of your own at Kakslauttanen in Finnish Lapland . If it gets too cold you can retreat to a centrally-heated log cabin with a sauna. Or choose a heated glass igloo, right, perfect for watching the Northern Lights. A three-night package staying in a log cabin costs £541 per person, based on two people sharing, with Norvista (0870 744 7315). You pay a £99 supplement for an ice igloo, £107 for a glass one. The firm recommends you keep the cabin in case you get too cold. The price includes flights from Heathrow to Helsinki, internal flights to Ivalo and half-board accommodation.

This will be the twelfth year that the world's first ice hotel is rebuilt at Jukkasjärvi in Swedish Lapland. Every winter more than 30,000 tons of snow and 3,000 tons of ice cut from the River Torne are used to build the hotel, which melts away in early April. Guests sleep in special thermal Arctic sleeping bags on ice beds topped with reindeer skins. There's a cinema, an Absolut Vodka ice bar and an open-air theatre with Macbeth in the local Sami language and Verdi's opera Falstaff. Scantours (020 7839 2927) is offering one night at the hotel as part of a three-night package from £940 this month and £965 in January. This includes scheduled SAS flights to Stockholm, internal flights, reindeer and snowmobile safaris, a hotel tour and three breakfasts, two lunches and one dinner. The hotel opens in mid-December and closes as the spring thaw arrives in around mid-April.

Wrap yourself in a musk ox fur sleeping bag to combat temperatures that dip below -10C in your Greenland igloo. Slug back a few vodkas from an ice glass in the ice bar before hitting the sack in one of four igloos at the Hotel Igloo Village at Kangerlussuaq, right. Ice sculptures are dotted around the village and illuminated at night, making an eye-catching sight. One night's B&B costs £46.67 for single occupancy and £74.96 for two people sharing. The hotel is open from 15 December until the beginning of April. Contact Hotel Kangerlussuaq (00 299 841180, fax 00 299 841284 or email kangbook@glv.gl). A stay of five nights at Kangerlussuaq costs £845 per person, based on two sharing, with Regent Holidays (01983 864 212). An overnight stay in the igloo costs an extra £47 a head. Flights from Heathrow to Greenland via Copenhagen and B&B accommodation are included.

The United States' first ice hotel has opened at Chena Hot Springs near Fairbanks in Alaska. The 30-foot high Gothic ice palace has ice chandeliers, an ice pipe organ, which you can play, and six rooms where guests sleep on reindeer hides. An eight-night package - including one night at the ice hotel, two nights at another hotel in Chena Hot Springs, one night in Anchorage and three in Seattle - costs £1,699 per person in February with All America Holidays (08703 800004). This includes return flights from Heathrow to Anchorage via Seattle and passes to Chena's mineral springs.

Head for the hot tub or sit in front of a real fire if the Canadian cold begins to get to you at Quebec 's Ice Hotel, right. Set in the Duchesnay Nature Reserve, the hotel has 35 bedrooms, a wedding chapel, an ice bar, art galleries and an ice disco. It's open between 9 January and 4 April next year. Arctic Experience (01737 214214) is offering a four-night package, including one night at the Ice Hotel and two at the Duchesnay Ecotourism Station, half-board, from £779 per person, based on two people sharing, between 10 January and 31 March.