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Top-tuned Hotel Arctic<br />
33 new rooms and a new conference centre make <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Greenland</strong>’s<br />
hotel in Iluliss<strong>at</strong> one of the most modern in <strong>Greenland</strong><br />
By Christian Schultz-Lorentzen<br />
Hotel Arctic has opened the doors<br />
to a whole new wing with 33 rooms<br />
spread over three floors. All the new<br />
rooms are of high, intern<strong>at</strong>ional standard<br />
and all have unique views of the<br />
Ice Bank, Disko Bay and Iluliss<strong>at</strong> town<br />
– the most popular tourist <strong>at</strong>tractions<br />
in <strong>Greenland</strong>.<br />
The hotel’s new wing is situ<strong>at</strong>ed as<br />
an extension of the Kayak Wing which<br />
Hotel Arctic opened in the year 2000.<br />
The new wing is t<strong>her</strong>e<strong>for</strong>e appropri<strong>at</strong>ely<br />
named »Umiaq«, which is the<br />
<strong>Greenland</strong>ic word <strong>for</strong> women’s bo<strong>at</strong>.<br />
But this is not the end of the<br />
innov<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> Hotel Arctic, which<br />
is owned by <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Greenland</strong>. A new<br />
meeting and conference centre will<br />
be available <strong>for</strong> u<strong>se</strong> in a few months<br />
– in January 2009 – and it has already<br />
been acknowledged with five stars.<br />
The conference centre, which is<br />
already receiving bookings, will be<br />
able to accommod<strong>at</strong>e 120 participants<br />
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■ Illuaqq<strong>at</strong> illuikk<strong>at</strong>ut ilusillit nuannarineqarluartut.<br />
■ De populære iglohytter.<br />
■ The popular igloo huts.<br />
who can look <strong>for</strong>ward to fascin<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
surroundings and fine facilities. The<br />
new part of the conference centre is<br />
being built in the driveway to Hotel<br />
Arctic. From <strong>her</strong>e, t<strong>her</strong>e is a magnificent<br />
view across the Ice Bank and<br />
the town of Iluliss<strong>at</strong> with its almost<br />
5000 inhabitants and almost just as<br />
many dogs. The town was the birthplace<br />
of famous polar explorer Knud<br />
Rasmus<strong>se</strong>n, who<strong>se</strong> childhood home<br />
today is a mu<strong>se</strong>um.<br />
With the opening of the new<br />
Umiaq Wing, Hotel Arctic has 87<br />
rooms and five igloo huts with a total<br />
capacity of 184 beds.<br />
All the pre<strong>se</strong>nt, north-facing hotel<br />
rooms in the older wing will be clo<strong>se</strong>d<br />
in connection with the building of the<br />
new conference centre. Sub<strong>se</strong>quently<br />
t<strong>her</strong>e will be views of the Ice Bank,<br />
Disko Bay and Iluliss<strong>at</strong> town from all<br />
the hotel’s rooms as well as from the<br />
gourmet restaurant Ulo, the Takanna<br />
bras<strong>se</strong>rie and the conference facilities.<br />
In the summer of 2009 the hotel will<br />
open the doors to the lower floor of<br />
the Umiaq Wing w<strong>her</strong>e a new and<br />
entirely wonderful world awaits in the<br />
<strong>for</strong>m of a wellness and fitness centre.<br />
With this, Hotel Arctic is very well<br />
equipped to receive the increasing<br />
stream of tourists and celebrities who<br />
choo<strong>se</strong> to visit this jewel in West<br />
<strong>Greenland</strong>. The hotel has been visited<br />
by <strong>se</strong>veral celebrities over recent<br />
years, e.g. American presidential candid<strong>at</strong>e<br />
and <strong>se</strong>n<strong>at</strong>or John McCain, the<br />
chairman of the EU Commission Jo<strong>se</strong><br />
Manuel Barroso, German Chancellor<br />
Angela Merkel, the Russian <strong>for</strong>eign<br />
minister Sergej Lavrov, the Icelandic<br />
singer Björk, Prime Minister Anders<br />
Fogh Rasmus<strong>se</strong>n and members of<br />
both the Danish, Japane<strong>se</strong> and Thai<br />
royal courts.