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A gondola with sauna cabin built in Finland

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Doppelmayr builds a gondola lift with sauna in one of the cabins. This type of cabin is the second in the world, the first one was also built by Doppelmayr in Levi in 2000.
The new eight-person-cabin is built in the Finish ski resort of Ylläs close to the Swedish border.

The articles in German:
http://vorarlberg.orf.at/magazin/klickpunkt/imlaendle/stories/296468/

http://www.vol.at/news/vorarlberg/artikel/welterste-saunagondel-in-finnland/cn/news-20080730-10505449

and only the pictures:
http://digital.vol.at/bildserie/Doppelmayr_baute_Saunagondel/index.shtml
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Why would anyone want this Shocked then again, it's Finland.

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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Better be a long lift by the time you get all you kit off to sit naked you would have to put it back on again Very Happy
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I have translated the vol.at article into English for anyone whose German is weaker than mine (sorry for any mistakes I may have made). Lapin Kulta (as written on the gondola) is a well-known Finnish beer, probably the equivalent of Budweiser (US) or Carling (UK).

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Doppelmayr completes five new lifts in Finland this season, including the world's first sauna gondola at Ylläs

Lift company Doppelmayr have installed a new gondola within the Ylläs ski area near the Swedish border. The 8-person "Ylläs 1" is the largest lift in Finland, as well as only the second gondola in the country; Doppelmayr installed the first Finnish gondola, with the capacity for 6 users per cabin, at Levi in 2000.

In addition to being the longest lift in Finland at 2km, the new Ylläs lift also offers a VIP cabin and - uniquely - a sauna cabin, which is heated by an electrical connection when the sauna cabin is in the lift station. To use the sauna, guests kit themselves out with swimwear while the sauna cabin is in the base station, which is then linked into the main lift system. The round trip lasts 13 minutes; just in case, warm clothes and a fire extinguisher are also packed into the cabin.


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The comments on the news site aren't uniformly favourable: PlemmPlemmLand (??) asks who would need such a daft thing, but reminders readers that - in this day and age - no product is so stupid that there isn't a customer somewhere. A rebuttal comes from Dinu who asks that PlemmPlemmLand hold off calling people dumb before knowing the genesis of the idea: apparently a customer suggested it.

Tepesch points out that a speedy exit in case of overheating might be risky during transit, but luckily Obertom has a solution: just open the door and you'll be cold soon enough.

juls84 winds up the comments with a joke, suggesting that here, finally, is a solution to circulation problems in the sauna. Good one, juls84 wink
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Shallimus wrote:
...for anyone whose German is weaker than mine..


Or non existent, in my case - thanks for the translation Very Happy

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To the British skiers it makes more sense to turn the sauna into a bar serving drinks.
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A gondola with a bar...now there's an idea Very Happy
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Quote:

The comments on the news site aren't uniformly favourable:


An argument? On the internet? Holy Donuts Batman.
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a gondola with a bar in the sauna - now that sounds more like it !! Very Happy
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How can you tell where the warm beer from from the bar off a sauna?
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saikee, what? have you been on the sauce? wink
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Swirly wrote:
An argument? On the internet? Holy Donuts Batman.

I disagree! wink
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