Below Zero Absolut Ice Bar

The temperature outside is hitting 30 degrees Celsius. What better way to cool down in this London heatwave than to head for the coolest bar in town - the ice bar. You can book online before going in - its about £12 a head which gives you a thick coat (which the stewards throw on your head like a sheet) gloves are attached (note to self: don’t go off for ten mins trying to work out where your gloves are when they are dangling from your coat) and a frozen glass with first cocktail free. The bar is basically a fridge with a window on one side (you cant see out) and ice walls surrounding. A small bar in the middle suffices for service which is faster than you would expect. The experience starts off being quite exciting, lots of teenage tourists are snapping photos around you, but then quite quickly you realise its freezing and although you get booted out after 45 minutes, we leave after half and hour more than ready to face the heatwave once again.

Overall a brilliant experience, worth the money and a great treat to take a date before dinner, perhaps it would have been a little better if you could stay as long as you wanted (if you could stand the cold) and if the venue wasn’t so full of tourists - 8/10