Ice and airplanes are typically a risky combination, but this winter the TWA Hotel, at New York’s JFK, has opened a skating rink around a retired Lockheed Constellation Connie airplane, which is now a cocktail lounge.

A spin on the tarmac is offered seven days a week through the end of February, and skates can be rented.

The hotel website describes the Runway Rink (made with good old frozen NYC tap water) as 17x 13 metres (56 x 44 feet).

The TWA Hotel, which opened this year is constructed inside JFK’s 57-year-old winged terminal, offering 512 rooms, meeting space and a rooftop pool with tarmac views.

The Queen’s Daily Eagle reports that Trans World Airlines terminal, designed by world-renowned architect Eero Saarinen in 1962, was closed to the public in 2001. But after $268 million in construction completed in May, the terminal was transformed into the centerpiece of a luxury hotel that sits adjacent to Terminal 5. It is the only Queens historic site to receive a 2019 State Historic Preservation Award.