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    InLapland

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    ABOUT THE HOTEL

    This trip is packed with outdoor adventures from start to finish. Your venue for the day is Kittila’s Snow Village, which is home to an ice hotel, an ice bar and an ice chapel. You’ll have plenty of time to explore the igloo-like hotel rooms and admire the impressive sculptures that have been carved from ice.

    When you’re ready to play in the snow, it’s a case of taking your pick from the huge choice of things to do. Little ones can zoom down the snow slide and drive a miniature skidoo. Plus, family-friendly activities like husky sleigh rides are guaranteed to get you in to the festive spirit.

    What’s more, there’s an indoor activity area for decorating cookies, and a restaurant where you can warm up over lunch. The highlight of the day, though, is meeting Santa Claus in his log cabin, deep in the woods.

    For a full rundown of what’s in store, take a look at the itinerary.

    It’s worth noting, the day is yours to enjoy at your own pace, and you can do the activities in whatever order you like.

    Things you'll love

    • Day trip to Lapland
    • Husky sleigh rides
    • Meet Santa

    Location

    • Kittila’s Snow Village

    Your Itinerary

    • Fly To Kitilla

      You’ll land in Kittila around midday and pick up your snowsuit and boots. Then, it’s on to the Snow Village, where your action-packed day takes place.

    • Snow Village

      Kittila’s Snow Village is home to an ice hotel with igloo-like rooms and impressive sculptures carved from frozen water, an ice bar and an ice chapel.

    • Reindeer Sleigh Ride

      Climb into a sleigh and let Rudolph and Co. guide you past frozen lakes, white hills and snow-dusted woodland.

    • Husky Adventure

      Hop on the back of a husky-led sleigh and you’ll be taken on a short tour of the Lappish countryside. There’ll be time to find out how the dogs are trained, plus Santa’s elves have an interesting story to tell about how the huskies saved Christmas.

    • Snowmobiling

      Buckle up for the drive of your life. After learning to manoeuvre your snowmobile, you can head off at full-throttle to explore the winter wilderness. For this activity, you'll need your driving license.

    • Arctic Storytelling, Kittila

      You’ll get a real taste of tradition when you meet a Lapland local. You can poke around his tent, and listen as he tells age-old stories and legends about the region.

    • Meet Santa, Kittila

      Get your festive wish-list at the ready because now’s your chance to meet Santa and tell him what you want for Christmas. The elves will help you impress him by teaching you how to say hello in Finnish.

    • Snow Fun

      You can’t come to Lapland without playing in the snow. Start a friendly snowball fight, build a snowman, try snowshoeing, or learn how to drive a miniature skidoo. Afterwards, warm up by the campfire with hot berry juice.

    • Home Time - Kittila

      When your day comes to an end, Santa’s elves will take you to the airport for your flight home.

    Game of Thrones
    20 Mar , 2019 Ghadeer2014, 294003
    We visited the Ice Hotel by the name of SnowVillage, 200 km above the Arctic Circle in Kittila. This year’s theme is Game of Thrones. The SnowVillage lodging in rooms & suites made of ice with Ice sculptures created in co-operation with HBO Nordic. It was -5 C in the hotel, I do not think I can sleep one night here, because while taking photos and wandering around -which took us 1 hour- my hands were freezing and I had to wear my gloves for warmth and obviously stopped taking photos. SEE photos.
    wonderful
    04 Mar , 2019 MFC1958
    this is the second time we have stayed at Lainio snow hotel, we loved the experience as did my nephew (18) and my niece (15) they thought it was great also. No problem sleeping and we weren't cold either. The sculptures are amazing.
    Visit, but don’t stay the night!
    27 Feb , 2019 emily462
    Very impressive to walk through and very interesting to take a tour and hear how the hotel is created. But staying the night is a waste of money. The dinner in the ice restaurant was good, but you’re so cold after sitting still for a bit that you can’t really focus on the food. The sleeping bags provided are warm, but overall it’s not a very comfortable sleeping experience. Given the price, we would have expected much better amenities. Sleep masks would be nice as the lights in the rooms don’t turn off. The hot room could be much more impressive...such as having lockers to leave your belongings, a better shower area, and a sauna that is available all the time (or has instructions so that guests can work it).
    Wow!
    12 Jan , 2019 Joe L
    The best experience we as a family of 4 had during our time in Lapland. It simply is amazing the level of detail that is showing on each carving is out of this world. The initial talk was informative and then we were left to have a look around at our leisure finishing with a drink at the bar!
    A Must See - But Don't Stay There!
    06 Mar , 2019 Carolina05, 186338
    We were staying in Levi, about a 45 minute journey from the Snow Village, so this was worth sharing a taxi to see. It's basically the Ice Hotel but called by the generic title of the Snow Village for some reason. Staying relatively so close, we wouldn't have missed it. It's very, very impressive & the amount of work & detail put in to creating it is just phenomenal. This year's theme (as was last year's apparently) was Game Of Thrones & the sculptures were simply stunning. You're allowed to wander up & down the corridors & walk into the numerous showroom bedrooms, which was fascinating - you just can't go to certain areas because guests are actually staying there, which is understandable.. It costs around 400 euros per night to stay there but to be honest, I wouldn't want to! It's so cold in there that the novelty soon wore off for us & we were rather glad that we didn't have to endure a whole night there. Between us (5 friends) we took hundreds of photos but after a short while, we stopped taking off our gloves to take pictures as it was so cold. Make sure you wrap up warm & wearing gloves & hats are a must. We indulged in a glass of champagne each at the ice bar & then headed straight for the warmth of the café for a hot chocolate. A must-see if you're in the area & another item ticked now off my bucket list!
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