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- 2025 RELEASED
5 days - Independent Christmas tour to Finnish Lapland. Sleep in an Aurora Glass Cabin and enjoy winter activities.
Get ready for a White Christmas in a cozy, family run glass igloo resort near Ivalo, Finland. Your glass igloo is set alone in the woods - you can gaze up at the Arctic stars and hopefully the Northern Lights will dance above you.
As well as snowmobiling, reindeer sledding and husky safaris, activities like the free use of cross-country skis, ice-skates, toboggans, snowshoes and campfires keep the days full. In the evening, sit back with other guests in the cozy Kota restaurant and share the day's tales.
Due to high demand, many of our Christmas tours become fully booked over the 24/25 December dates, however, most of our tours have pre-Christmas departures running just before the busy Christmas period. These tours include a Santa visit which is still very exciting to the children as Santa can talk to them about what they are hoping to receive from him and his preparations for his imminent departure.
Highlights include
- Sleep in an Aurora Glass Cabin
- Snowmobile Safari and Aurora Tour
- Reindeer Feeding and Reindeer Sleigh Ride
- 2h Husky Safari in Lappish Nature
- Special Santa program
- Day 1
- Arrive to Ivalo and transfer to the Aurora Village
- Day 2
- Husky Sledding and Christmas Eve Celebrations
- Day 3
- Reindeer Sleigh Ride and Crepes & Sledding Adventure
- Day 4
- Snowmobile Safari and Aurora Tour
- Day 5
- Departure day
- Start/End Place
- Ivalo, Finland
- Country Visited
- Finland
- Duration
- 5 Days
- Start Date
- Scheduled
- Travel Style
- Independent
- Suitability
- Easy Christmas tour - minimum age: 10 years old
- Code
- 50DN0185
As a Certified B Corporation, 50 Degrees North has designed this tour using handpicked local hoteliers and suppliers who share our ethos of delivering services and activities of high social and environmental standards.
The CO2-e per person per day of all tours is carefully measured following each season. We fully offset all emissions of our tours on your behalf, and we constantly look at ways to reduce emissions where possible.
Details
Transportation
Local transfers
Included
- Airport transfers from/to Ivalo Airport (IVL)
- Accommodation in Aurora Glass Cabin with full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
- Thermal clothing (woollen socks, boots, tube bandana, gloves, thermal overalls, balaclava)
- Aurora Alert mobile app
- Free use of cross-country skis, ice-skates, toboggans, snowshoes etc.
- Free access to Kota and Laavu campfire sites
- 2hr Snowmobile Safari
- Aurora hunting by car
- Reindeer Feeding and Reindeer Sleigh Ride
- 2h Husky Safari in Lappish Nature
- Cross-Country Skiing
- Guided Snowshoe Hike
- Santa program for both departures.This program includes being seated in a snowmobile towed sleigh with fur covers for a ten-minute ride through the forest to a cabin in a secret location. You are dropped by the door of the cabin and meet Santa inside for approximately 5-10 minutes with a small gift from Santa (30-40 minutes in total). When it happens, changes depending on the schedule you receive on arrival. This is a small group with maximum 8 people including children.
- Special outdoor activities on Christmas Day
- Christmas buffet dinners on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- All taxes (VAT)
Not Included
Use of the Panorama Sauna and outdoor jacuzzi is an additional extra cost. There is no sauna in the cabins.
There is no portage included to your cabins - you use a sled to drag your bags to your cabin.
Itinerary
Day 1 - Arrive to Ivalo and transfer to the Aurora Village
Fly to Ivalo and transfer to Aurora Village. Upon arrival, you will receive your program schedule before dinner. Depending on your arrival time, cold weather gear is given to you either upon arrival or the next day.
Meals
1 DinnerDay 2 - Husky Sledding and Christmas Eve Celebrations
After breakfast, you will head out on a 1-hour Husky Safari. You will be taught how to handle the sled before heading out on the husky safari, where the huskies will pull your sled through the beautiful winter scenery.
Today you also get a chance to participate in an Arctic Handicraft Workshop, suited for the whole family. Together with a local instructor, make your own souvenir from a selection of traditional materials like reindeer antlers and leather as a base. Let your imagination wander and create a piece of art that you can take home with you!
This afternoon you will take part in Christmas celebrations. Decorate the Christmas tree and get a taste of traditional Finnish rice porridge in Yurt restaurant. Christmas Eve is the main Christmas Event in Finland and even Santa Claus will be visiting us on this special day! In the evening, enjoy a festive Christmas buffet dinner at the restaurant.
(Those arriving on the 19 DEC will meet Santa and enjoy a buffet dinner).
Meals
1 Breakfast1 Lunch
1 Dinner
Day 3 - Reindeer Sleigh Ride and Crepes & Sledding Adventure
Enjoy breakfast at the restaurant. Afterwards, you get a chance to feed the local reindeers. Listen to the stories about reindeer herding and enjoy a calm reindeer sleigh ride.
In the afternoon, you will be taken for a sleigh ride through the snowy forest, up on the highest hill with amazing scenery. The guides will help you to prepare your own crepes by the open fire, before heading for a 1.5km long fun toboggan run down a scenic sliding trail.
Christmas Day buffet dinner at the restaurant.
Meals
1 Breakfast1 Lunch
1 Dinner
Day 4 - Snowmobile Safari and Aurora Tour
Breakfast at the restaurant. Today, you will get to try snowmobiling and ice-fishing! Drive through the arctic winter forests while admiring the beauty of the Lappish nature. Your guide leads the way on this exciting snowmobile safari to a frozen river, where you can try your luck with ice-fishing. You’ll learn to drill a hole through thick ice and have fun luring the fish.
IMPORTANT: All drivers without exception must have a valid full drivers license and be aged 18 or more. Kids will travel in a sled behind the guide.
In the evening, relax with your family in the soft heat of the Panorama Sauna (please note: the sauna may be scheduled fir any given day in the Christmas program and you will receive more details on arrival).
Dinner at the restaurant.
Meals
1 Breakfast1 Lunch
1 Dinner
Day 5 - Departure day
After breakfast, independent transfer back to Ivalo Airport.
Meals
1 BreakfastDouble/Twin share price is per person. (Single supplement applies.)
Family triple and quad prices are based on 2 adults + 1 or 2 children between age 10-14.
Min age. for this tour is 10 years old.
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Important Information
Note: the program is indicative and the order of the activities may change. The final program will be given to you at Aurora Village on arrival day.
Min age. for this tour is 10 years old.
SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL:
Your glass igloo hosts in Ivalo were the first accommodation in Northern Lapland to receive the Green Key award, the leading standard for excellence in the field of environmental responsibility and sustainable operation within the tourism industry. This prestigious eco-label represents a commitment by businesses that their premises adhere to the strict criteria set by the Foundation for Environmental Education. Some examples of how they carry this out include offering recycling facilities in all cabins and no longer offering plastic bottles in accommodations, along with protecting the diversity of the surrounding nature, i.e., bird house and insect hotels. Hiking, biking, and skiing tracks are direct from the hotel and as such they encourage low carbon activities such as snowshoeing and toboggans.
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