Arctic Bath
Harads, Swedish Lapland, Sweden
Location
On the Lule River
On the Lule River at Harads in Swedish Lapland, a luxury micro-destination alongside the Treehotel, around an hour from Lulea airport; northern lights from August to March and the midnight sun in summer.
Transfer
An hour from Lulea
Around an hour by road from Lulea airport, arranged on request.
Villas
12 glass-fronted cabins
Just 12 cabins — six floating water cabins of 24 square metres on the river and six two-storey land cabins of 62 square metres for families — all heated with wood-burning stoves, with heated floors and minibars.
Best For
Who it suits
Design-led couples and small groups drawn to architectural Arctic wellness, the cold-bath ritual and the northern lights.
Board Basis
Dinner-inclusive packages
Typically sold on dinner-inclusive packages, with the Scandinavian set-menu restaurant.
About the Resort
A floating design-icon spa hotel
Arctic Bath is an architectural floating spa hotel on the Lule River at Harads in Swedish Lapland — a timber circle around an open-air, ice-cold plunge pool fed by the river, ringed by saunas, that floats in summer and freezes into the ice in winter. Just 12 glass-fronted cabins surround it: six cosy water cabins on the river and six two-storey land cabins for families, all heated with wood-burning stoves. A Member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World with one Michelin Key, it pairs the sauna-and-cold-dip ritual with Scandinavian set-menu dining and dog sledding under the northern lights. Design-led Arctic wellness.
Accommodation
Water and land cabins
Just 12 glass-fronted cabins, heated with wood-burning stoves.
Water
Water Cabin
Sleeps two. A 24-square-metre floating cabin on the river, with a private deck, a wood stove and heated floors.
24 square metresFloating on the river
Land
Land Cabin
Sleeps up to five. A 62-square-metre stilted, two-floor cabin with a loft, a spiral stair and double-height windows.
62 square metresTwo floors, for families
Food & Drink
Dining
A Scandinavian set-menu restaurant.
Signature
The restaurant
A rotating Scandinavian set menu of up to eight courses.
Local
Lapland produce
Foraged and regional ingredients.
Bar
Riverside drinks
Beside the bathhouse.
Wellbeing
The floating bathhouse
The circular floating open-air bathhouse, with a cold and ice plunge pool of river water at its centre, ringed by saunas, a steam room, hot tubs and a treatment room — the sauna-and-cold-dip ritual, with a robe and products to take home.
An ice-cold plunge pool
River water, open-air.
Saunas and a steam room
Around the bathhouse.
The cold-dip ritual
Robe and products to take home.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
The cold-bath ritual, the design and the northern lights.
The cold-bath ritual
Sauna and ice plunge.
Northern lights
Over the river from August to March.
Dog sledding
Under the lights.
The floating architecture
An Arctic design icon.
Set-menu dining
Up to eight courses.
Getting There
Location & transfers
By air
To Lulea
Around an hour by road.
On the river
Harads
Swedish Lapland.
Guest Reviews
What Our Clients Say
★★★★★
“The most extraordinary place I have ever stayed. Nothing prepares you for the depth of the silence, the beauty of the reef, or the sheer generosity of the experience.”
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★★★★★
“We’ve stayed here three times now. The house reef has no equal. The stargazing was, genuinely, one of the most moving experiences of my adult life.”
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★★★★★
“I had stayed at Four Seasons, One&Only and Velaa before visiting Arctic Bath. They are all magnificent. But this is different in a way that is hard to articulate.”
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Good to Know
Good to know
Dinner-inclusive
- Typically sold on dinner-inclusive packages.
Northern lights
- From August to March; midnight sun in summer.
Design icon
- SLH, with one Michelin Key.
Getting there
- Around an hour from Lulea airport.
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