Hotel in Fairbanks, United States
Aurora Villa
150pts
About Aurora Villa
Elsewhere in America the word “aurora” is strictly metaphorical, but at Aurora Villa, it’s entirely literal — here, at the end of a country road a half-hour from Fairbanks, in the Alaskan interior, the Northern Lights are a regular feature of the night sky. (For better viewing, the hotel’s lights go out at ten o’clock, and there’s very little ambient light in the surrounding area.) Aurora Villa’s Nordic-style minimalism is, in some ways, incongruously stylish in a place where rustic lodges are the norm — but at this latitude, it stands under the same night sky as Iceland and northern Scandinavia.
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