Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus is a show that raises many ethical dilemmas — but in episode 3, there’s a question that’s far easier to answer.
Can you actually stay at that cool ice hotel?
We’ve done some digging to find out.
What happens with the ice hotel in Pluribus episode 3?
Episode 3 of the Apple TV series opens with a flashback to around seven years before the virus spreads across Earth. Celebrating the launch of a new book in The Winds of Wycaro series, author Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) and her partner Helen (Miriam Shor) arrive for their stay at an ice hotel in Norway. Their guide, Bjorn, tells them the hotel was built using 300 tons of ice and over 10,000 tons of snow. He says it melts every summer and is rebuilt every year. Their room, which is a few degrees below zero and features an ice bed, is filled with sculptures and a window that gives the perfect view of the Northern Lights.
Helen loves it, while Carol is clearly a bit less keen — but if you wanted to, could you actually go and stay there yourself?
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Can you actually stay at that ice hotel?
The first point to make is that the ice hotel in Pluribus isn’t actually named in the episode. We know it’s in Norway, and we know from the show that the room was apparently sculpted by a winner of the Harbin Ice Sculpting Competition (which is real, even if the sculptor themself doesn’t seem to be), but we don’t have much else to go on.
“Do we absolutely have to go to every wacky place Rick Steves recommends?” asks Carol at one point, referring to the American travel writer — but a quick search doesn’t seem to bring up any specific recommendations from Steves.
On the other hand, ice hotels in Norway do exist. Of these, the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel — the country’s northernmost igloo hotel — seems like a fairly close match, given it’s also filled with ice sculptures and also melts away each Spring.
So can you go and stay where Carol and Helen stay in the show? Not exactly. But you can definitely go and stay somewhere pretty close to that.
Pluribus is streaming on Apple TV, with a new episode every Friday.
