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Journey beginning and ending at Rovaniemi, Finland
Fully booked: 2025-12-23 to 2025-12-28 starting from $6205 AUD
Available: 2026-12-23 to 2026-12-28 starting from $6514 AUD
Celebrating Christmas in Lapland is a wonderfully magical experience – with the snow topped landscapes outside, and cosy fires indoors. This Christmas tour is based in a small town outside Rovaniemi and introduces you to the incredible animals of the Arctic as well as Santa Claus himself. Enjoy a white Christmas in your own family apartment with self-catering facilities. Based within the wildlife park complex, in between your winter activities such as snowmobiling and dogsledding, see the polar bear as well as visits into the wildlife park.
Arrival at Rovaniemi airport and transfer to your hotel (approx. 1 hour). Families will enjoy the private self-catering apartments, sleeps 6 (4 adults and 2 children). With your own sauna, lounge with log fire and kitchen in these semi-detached wooden houses, you have a great spot to relax with your family.
Upon arrival at the hotel you will be shown your accommodation and hotel services.
In the backwoods of Ranua, close to the Ranua Wildlife Park, your family will visit Santa in his very, very secret place, his Hideout Cabin in the wilderness. At the reception, your family will meet your guide who drives you and your family through the dark, snowy forest towards Santa’s secret place. Within merely a 10 minute ride, you will see a tiny light flickering from far away. The guide stops driving in order to discuss what the light might mean, what it could be – in the middle of the mysterious dusk and darkness of just snow-covered trees all around. In a short moment the ride continues, ever towards the light. As you come closer and closer, you will see a tiny wooden cabin appearing in the shimmering darkness, with candle lights flickering in the windows, smoke rising up from the chimney.
You stop here; at this point the children might go and peek through the windows to try and see who on earth could be staying in a sweet little cabin like this. The children, ever more curious of the sights they might have seen, courageously knock on the door. Santa warmly welcomes the family into his cozy cabin, complete with a crackling fireplace and handmade decorations
Santa explains that this cosy cabin is his retreat before the busy Christmas season begins, a place where he can relax, enjoy the peaceful forest surroundings, and recharge after the joy and excitement of the festivities. He warmly shares that he remembers the names of the children and knew they had arrived in Ranua. He had even hoped they might visit him, as many families do after hearing whispers of his secret hideaway in the woods.
Santa then opens his scrapbook and reads aloud the names of recent visitors, sharing fun little stories along the way. He chats with the children about their school, family, and how they’ve behaved throughout the year. He also listens attentively to their questions, responding in his uniquely kind and encouraging way.
The visit lasts around 15 minutes, and afterward, the guide drives the family back to the Holiday Village. The entire experience takes approximately 45 minutes.
Following this, you will enjoy your first taste of delicious Finnish food as you enjoy dinner with the group who will be sharing your upcoming Christmas adventure in the main hotel dining room.
Today you will head out into the surrounding forested wilderness in search of the perfect tree. Adults will travel via snowmobile (2 people per snowmobile) whilst the children will sit in a sled pulled by the guides snowmobile. This is a thrilling way to travel across the snow topped scenery and allows you to see more of the stunning landscape as it moves past you.
Christmas isn’t the same without the ideal Christmas tree and the children will no doubt want to get stuck into this important challenge as you look around the forest. There will be opportunity to enjoy hot drinks and biscuits by the fire too as a reward for all of your hard work.
This afternoon, get set for a Husky Safari. You will first receive detailed information on steering the sled. Then, the comfortable sleds head into the winter wonderland. A sled can transport two adults and a child. You have the opportunity to steer your own sled, and change drivers with the other adult in the sled halfway. After the safari, you have a chance to ask our guides anything you have always wanted to know about sled dogs, who love to run fast and pull a sled, thus offering the visitors an unforgettable experience to enjoy the ancient, natural way of travelling in the wild.
This evening is the celebratory gala dinner for everyone with a range of Finnish and international specialities and lots of Christmas festivities for everyone to enjoy.
After breakfast, get ready for a tour at the Wildlife Park. Accompany the Park Ranger on a tour to see all of the animals and you can even help out feeding some of the hungry critters! Which one will be your favourite? The Polar Bear, Arctic Foxes, Moose or Wolverine?
During the 2 hour tour, you will see some of the 50 different species residing in as authentic environment for the animals as possible. You can come back and visit for free whenever the park is open during your stay.
This afternoon, you will head to the lake to learn the secrets of ice fishing. Hot drinks are served during the trip, and any catch is fried on the open fire. You travel up to 5 – 10 kilometres, depending on the conditions, during this 3 hour trip with outer warm clothing provided.
After breakast you will join a snowmobile safari that takes you to a family farm.
Visit the family farm to meet the typical Lappish farm animals, such as Finn horses, Lapland cow, Lap phund, sheep and chicken. There are also bunnies and cats, and you will also experience the 600 meters sledge ride.
In the afternoon enjoy the peace & quiet of your apartments.
Today, enjoy a more peaceful day with a reindeer safari. Take the time to savour the snowcovered landscape during a wonderfully peaceful 3km sleigh ride. As night falls, time to rev the engines again on the snowmobiles for a Northern Lights tour – fingers crossed, the Aurora will shine for you tonight?
Follow our guide to the snowmobile track. The guide will teach you how to ride a snowmobile and what precautions to take. The snowmobiles have excellent headlights that guarantee good visibility, even on dark forest trails. We take a couple of short breaks on the way and enjoy a cup of hot juice by an open fire at the halfway point. If we are lucky, we will be treated with one of the most amazing natural phenomena in the world: the Northern Lights.
Today your adventure will draw to a close as you are transferred back to the airport after breakfast.
To find out more or to book this incredible tour, contact Globetrotter Lifestyle today!