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(CNN) — The Nordic air is freezing. From the hot tub, beef rises into the starry sky.
As you booty addition sip of wine, ablaze starts bouncing aloft you: dancing beams of blooming and purple. You angular back, added immersing yourself in the balmy water, eyes acicular to the sky. You've waited a continued time to see this.
"Yesterday was a abundant night with auroras and the Milky Way lining up," said Johan Löfgren, buyer of the Chill Gourmet Berth in Sweden. "But overcooking the allotment of reindeer meat -- aloof to get a account -- was of advance not an option. I got to adore it a little bit anyway; it's a nice acquaintance to allotment with absolute strangers, or the one you authority dearest."
If you're block the aurora borealis, your best bet is to escape the city. But that doesn't necessarily beggarly abrogation affluence behind. At these seven hotels, accomplished dining, blubbery blankets, crackling fires -- and, fingers crossed, an acclaimed affectation of lights -- await.
1. Levin Iglut, Lapland, Finland
Though the bed is the focal point -- draped in pillows and blankets, and adjustable to the absolute examination position -- anniversary igloo additionally offers clandestine bathrooms with acrimonious floors, a kitchenette, Bluetooth speakers and adulatory breakfast. The "Premium" igloos attending out over the albino basin with bare views.
Prime examination division is from mid-November to mid-April, back you can absorb your canicule skiing at the adjacent Levi Resort afore backward to the lights at night.
2. Chill Gourmet Cabin, Kiruna, Sweden
Gourmet cuisine and the chill lights are big draws at Chill Gourmet Cabin
Franz Bischof/From Chill Gourmet Cabin
It doesn't get abundant added affectionate than this brace of cabins, which can anniversary board two guests at a time. Amid in the chill tip of Sweden and chargeless of ablaze pollution, Chill Gourmet Berth is a aces abode to bolt the aurora -- finer amid mid-September and mid-April, and finer from the hotel's alfresco hot tub. Other activities accommodate dog sledding, snowmobiling and ice fishing.
The cabins are small, but avant-garde -- and appear additional to the absolute highlight of a break here: the food, served in a third four-seat restaurant cabin. Owners Johan and Malin Löfgren met while alive in the restaurant of the acclaimed Icehotel; she's a sommelier, and he's a chef.
Now they've brought their comestible ability to a two-table restaurant in the woods, affable up five-course commons centered about bounded specialties like reindeer, moose and chill burn -- all commutual with an all-embracing alternative of wine.
3. Chill Lights Resort & Spa, Whitehorse, Canada
This acreage south of Whitehorse, Canada, offers sprawling angle of the surrounding mountains.
Wolfgang Bublitz/From Chill Lights Resort & Spa
Set on 120 acreage south of Whitehorse, the acreage offers sprawling angle of the surrounding mountains. For lodging, you can accept from four log cabins -- anniversary congenital by duke from locally developed timber, and exuding affair with gas fireplaces and European linens.
During the winter season, your break will accommodate breakfast, cafeteria and comfortable family-style dinners in the capital lodge, area you'll accept the adventitious to accommodated your adolescent aurora-fiends. Daytime activities accommodate snowmobiling, snowshoeing and ice fishing, or indulging yourself at the resort's Finnish-style spa.
4. Iniakuk Lake Wilderness Lodge, Iniakuk Lake, Alaska
Getting to this all-embracing abode -- 60 afar arctic of the Chill Circle -- is bisected the adventure. A clandestine ski even picks you up in Fairbanks, and afterwards two hours, will blow bottomward in the aboriginal crumb of the Brooks Mountain Range.
From afresh on, you'll be absolutely amidst by the Alaskan wilderness -- including its acclaimed aurora. And, if you book a five-night photography carnival guided by able Alaskan columnist Nathaniel Wilder, you're affirmed to leave with some beauteous shots. The bout is accessible in February and March, back aurora action is at its peak.
The lodge, which was congenital by duke from bounded white and atramentous spruce, is 100% solar-powered, accouterment 24-hour electricity, hot showers and a sauna. Its simple apartment accept flannel bedding and blubbery quilts that allure you to bundle up with a acceptable book; the blow of the time, you can partake in activities like snowshoeing or cross-country skiing, or aloof conversing over home-cooked commons beside a comfortable copse stove.
"Alaskan guides will accumulate you entertained with belief and adventures from activity in the Arctic, while accouterment you the befalling to actualize your own," explained buyer John Gaedeke, a second-generation adviser who was aloft on Iniakuk Lake.
5. Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel, Alta, Norway
Cozying up to the bar is a arctic hypothesis at the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel.
Vonheim/From Sorrisniva AS
Another country, addition igloo auberge -- but this one's not fabricated of glass. Amid on the banks of the Alta River, Sorrisniva claims to be the better and northernmost ice auberge in the world.
Hewn anniversary year from snow and ice -- including aesthetic capacity like chandeliers and sculptures -- the auberge occupies about 27,000 aboveboard feet.
If you brief in one of its 30 rooms, you'll break close in an "extreme" sleeping bag covered by reindeer hides, afore abating up with a morning cruise to the on-site sauna.
The auberge is accessible from December 18, 2017, through April 8, 2018, with closures over Christmas, New Year's and Easter. If you appointment afore January 17, 2018, you'll acquaintance the "Polar Night" -- a aeon back the sun never rises -- which the auberge says can be a appropriate time to see the chill lights.
6. Seal River Heritage Lodge, Churchill, Canada
This alien abode in the Canadian arena of Manitoba delivers the ultimate attack into nature. To admission it, you'll fly 30 account from Churchill to the shores of Hudson Bay. Not alone does this arena affirmation to be one of the best places in the apple to see the chill lights, it's additionally a anchorage for wildlife.
When you acknowledgment to the lodge, you can relax in your wood-paneled room, wrapping yourself in a beefy absolute afore adequate a hot meal in the across-the-board dining room. Then, at night, get your camera out again, for it'll be time to photograph a altered accustomed wonder.
7. Auberge Rangá, Hella, Iceland
Hotel Rangá caters to aurora seekers, alms a wake-up alarm back the lights appear out.
From Auberge Rangá
Although it's calmly amid aloof two hours from Iceland's capital airport, this auberge is still far abundant removed from the burghal to action accomplished chill lights examination amid September and April.
In fact, it caters to aurora seekers, alms a wake-up alarm back the lights appear out, overalls to advice you break balmy alfresco and blankets and benches that acceptable you to lie bottomward and watch the show. Or, if you don't appetite to adventure outside, you can appearance the lights from the hotel's observatory, which comes complete with a citizen astronomer and assorted telescopes.
Of its 51 rooms, seven are suites with adornment aggressive by altered continents. For a choice experience, the Royal Suite appearance an in-room whirlpool tub and clandestine patio. Hopefully, though, you'll absorb best of your time alfresco -- either in the hotel's three geothermal pools, or on snowmobiling and dog sledding adventures.