Thon Hotel Polar

Harbourfront hotel looking across the sound to the Arctic Cathedral, with connecting rooms, a teen room and breakfast included.

Arctic aquarium in a building shaped like toppling ice blocks, with bearded seals you can watch at feeding time and panoramic films on Svalbard and the northern lights.

Museum of polar bear trappers, Arctic hunting and whaling, with its own exhibition on Roald Amundsen's expeditions to both poles.

Pointed white church across the bridge from the centre, with one of Europe's largest glass mosaics behind the altar and concerts under the midnight sun in summer.