Cool new Ice lounge for CT

[Subzero]

Visitors to South Africa's trendy Cape Town waterfront this winter can get iced drinks, served in glasses made of ice, while they relax on ice amid ice sculptures.

The city is the latest worldwide to play host to an "ice lounge" which saw local organisers import around 45 tons of structural ice from Canada and to manufacture a further 10 tons locally for the construction.

The 200-square-metre Ice Lounge was build by a local company at the Victoria and Albert Waterfront, the city's tourism hotspot.

Doors to the sub-zero venue open as the summer takes its grip November and will reveal an ice bust of political icon Nelson Mandela, an ice slide for children and high-tech audiovisual equipment, organisers said.

[Ming]

This is the 1st Ice Lounge in Cape Town.

[Subzero]

Here is another pic, looks cool

[Ming]

The Ice Lounge opens as a bar venue in the evening is kept at -5 to -7 degrees Celsius, to ensure that the ice fixtures, sculptures, bar, walls and glasses don't melt. Visitors are given hooded ponchos, mittens and booties to wear over their clothes.

The daytime admission is R50 for adults and R35 for children under 13. After 5pm its R75 which includes a complimentary cocktail.

[pierrejacques]

The daytime admission is R50 for adults and R35 for children under 13. After 5pm its R75 which includes a complimentary cocktail.

After 5 sounds like fun, but I'm afraid to say that the Ice Lounge by day literally left me cold... there was hardly any atmosphere and no liquor was available (only a soft drink included in the price). Must be a first for me to pay 50 bucks for a can of Coke
The sculptures were nice though... you can check my pics at flickr

[Jojo]

I would like a quote to book the lounge for an event.

[Vega]

I've always wanted to visit an ice lounge. The pictures always look really cool. I realize it's kind of a marketing gimick but I'd still like to experience it. I hate the cold but if it's hot outside this would be a breathe of fresh air.