life Ice Hotel  in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden. Producer Barbara Broccoli (I)  first saw a photo of it in a magazine while traveling on a plane and  thought it would make a good setpiece for a Bond movie. The actual  location is 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. Ice  hotels or similar structures like an Ice Palace, Ice Museum, Snow  Castle or Ice Castle have existed in Norway, Finland, Canada,  Romania and Russia, but such a building has never existed in  Iceland, where some of the ice palace environs were shot.