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A long time ago, we hit upon the idea of taking children to meet the real Father Christmas and in Lapland found exactly what our young and young at heart travellers wanted: remote villages in the snows where traditional Finnish Lutheran customs are still played out on a small scale and where everybody can enjoy snowmobile rides,husky mushing, reindeer safaris, a visit to a Shaman and of course to Santa.
Unfortunately (one might say) the idea caught on so well that the mass-market operators felt they had to come crashing in on the act with trips to theme park like places that have all the magic of a visit to a shopping centre in Croydon after a freak fall of snow (with apologies to Croydon).
But such once-in-a-lifetime experiences, we feel, need to be just that - genuine, traditional, memorable, mystical and exciting. We offer tobogganing and snowmobiling, not discos; ice-fishing, not fast food; pine clad rooms or open-fired log cabins, not soulless cell blocks; and herds of huskies, not people.
To avoid the masses, we've retreated high above the Arctic Circle to just three special family owned places, Harriniva, Nellim by Lake Inari and Kakslauttanen. We have several departures in December as well as over Christmas and New Year. If you would like to join us, we would love to have you but please remember: no discothèques, no fruit machines and no television. Just a family visit to see Father Christmas and have some fun yourself with like-minded people.
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