An ice-cold hotel

Being in an ice-cold hotel, buried deep in a cold, apparently inhospitable land: this is what we hope will never happen to us. This is true until we spend a night at the Ice Hotel, in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Canada. This hotel, whose structure was built using only blocks of ice and snow, offers its guests an evocative atmosphere for a stay to remember.
This hotel was built after several months of preparation and hard work, for which as many as five Merlo telescopic handlers were used: from a compact P 32.6 to a powerful P 80.9 HM.
They were all used full-time for almost four months to transport over 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice, which were then mixed and used to lay the foundations for the hotel. Then the hotel was erected with thousands of blocks of ice weighing over 300 kg each.

Both the technicians and hotel manager Jacques Desbois were astonished by the performance of Merlo machines: thanks to their hydrostatic transmission and the boom side shift they could handle the heavy blocks of ice rapidly and safely, with an accuracy to within a millimetre. Jacques Desbois was so thrilled by the performance of Merlo telescopic handlers that he signed a three-year exclusive agreement with Manulift, Merlo importer for Canada, to have telescopic handlers supplied for maintenance and extension work.