article_snippet: On Mount Hengill, an active lava field, just outside Þingvellir National Park, Iceland's Ion Hotel stands on a craggy outcrop close to where the North American and Eurasian plates meet, drifting further and further apart, each year.
article_snippet: just 25ft underground here, so when Iceland's Ion Hotel was built on the site of a geothermal power plant, Iceland's Ion Hotel creators had to use building materials seven times stronger than standard materials used in Reykjavík.
article_snippet: Iceland's Ion Hotel is situated on Mount Hengill,  an active volcano whose last eruption was around 2,000 years ago .
article_snippet: Iceland's Ion Hotel is an extension and renovation of the old workers' quarters of the Nesjavellir geothermal power station,  bought  in 2011, with the intention of being the only hotel in this isolated - and beautiful - part of Iceland.
article_snippet: ION makes use of Iceland's unique geography in two ways: the biothermal energy is harnessed in a spectacular outdoor natural hot spring; and a glass building - the Northern Lights Bar - allows guests to admire the frequent aurora borealis displays.
article_snippet: ION is surrounded by natural hot springs, which provide geothermal hot water and energy to the hotel's own natural outdoor pool .
article_snippet: Rooms at the ION hotel start at  £184 (bed and breakfast)
article_snippet: Hence the reason we chose ION for the hotel's name.'
article_snippet: Everything about the hotel screams Iceland.
highlights_snippet: Iceland's Ion Hotel is positioned at the foot of Mount Hengill on the edge of Þingvellir National Park .
  
highlights_snippet: Nesjavellir geothermal power station delivers around 1100 litres of hot water to Reykjavík and neighbouring towns .