Lapland in Winter

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Imagine a Christmas adventure for young and old to experience the spirit of Christmas in an enchanting land that Santa Claus chose for his home. Spend a Christmas holiday of a lifetime in a land of breathtaking beauty and spellbinding atmosphere. A land of unspoiled, snow-covered scenery and magical winter twilight. A land of sleigh rides, reindeer and husky dogs. This is Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland at the Arctic Circle. Here, your children will experience a true Christmas fantasy, which will long remain vivid in their memory. See their eyes sparkle with delight and excitement, as they meet the real Santa Claus and his reindeer.

Additional nights available. Please inquire.

A Deluxeversion of this tour is also available.

Itinerary

From Rovaniemi Airport, transfer by private car to your hotel. Opportunity for afternoon touring, sauna and swim. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Buffet breakfast is served in the main building of the Holiday Village. Everyone in Lapland knows that Santa has a secret hideaway where he goes to relax. Now also you will have a chance to see this hideaway. Santa him self will not be there. He is a bit busy now. But he has left you a message. You just have to find it!

This trip starts with about ½ hour guided coach transfer to a forest hut. The coach is stopped by different animals of the forest; bears and hares will guide the guests through a winding trail. Here and there you may even see Santa’s little helpers hiding in forest. Some of them may even make friends with children and share the path with them. Along the trail the children can see some traces of Santa himself; there are fresh traces of his sledge and there might

even be some objects and presents fallen out of his sledge.

Finally the trail leads to a little hut in the middle of the forest where long tables are set up for enjoying Christmas Eve’s snack, porridge with sandwiches together with hot drinks and gingerbread cookies.

At the hut every child is invited to visit the tiny hut decorated in Christmas style. There each child receives a personal letter from Santa. In the letter Santa encourages them to feed the birds and other animals of the forests and should they do this, he promises to pay a visit in the evening.

The Santa’s little helpers help the children to set up the food for the birds and after this they will go together to fetch some Christmas trees to decorate them for the joy of animals and Santa’s helpers. Also Santa’s reindeers have arrived to the hut, ready to take everyone on a test drive. If you manage this Lappish mode of transportation, you will be issued an international reindeer driver’s license. And since you are at the Arctic Circle, you can not leave without participating in special Lapp ceremony of crossing the Arctic Circle! Then it’s time to take the trail back to the coaches which take you back to the hotel.

In the evening the traditional and hearty Christmas buffet dinner is served at the Thulia restaurant and later appearance of Father Christmas. Welcome drink and 2 portions of wine/soft drinks included.

Overnight at Holiday Village Ounasvaaran Pirtit.

Buffet breakfast is served in the main building of the Holiday Village.

Coach transfer to the Snowfun site to experience all the activities possible in snow: mini snowmobiles, medium sized snowmobiles for adults to take about 15 minute snowmobile safari, and 4 wheeled forest scooters for everyone to enjoy! There are kick sledges, a toboggan run, ice golfing, snowshoes and skies to try out. Have fun while ice fishing and take part in a snow hockey game. Hot drinks are served by the campfires throughout the stay. In a big kota tepee you can fry sausages and enjoy lovely hot soup.

In the evening, buffet dinner at the main restaurant and overnight at Holiday Village Ounasvaaran Pirtit.

Transfer by private car with driver from hotel to Rovaniemi airport to catch your flight home via Helsinki.