Christmas in Kakslauttanen

DAY 1

FLY TO YOUR DREAMS Leave from London’s Heathrow via Helsinki with Finnair, Santa’s official airline, to Ivalo in Finnish Lapland. On arrival your guide takes you by private mini bus to Kakslauttanen where magical spirits will make all your dreams come true. Check in to your private log cabin before a buffet supper in the main log house restaurant.

DAY 2

MUSH A HUSKY TEAM After breakfast it’s time to kick start your days of Lapland magic and meet the local husky pack who live just a few minutes away. Here you meet big and not so big ones – all sorts, each with their own name eagerly waiting to show you how to mush your way around the fells on the most exciting ride of our life. Grown - ups mush 2 per dog team whilst children ride in husky sleds behind your Lapp guide. Buffet supper in the main log house restaurant.

CHRISTMAS EVE

FINDING YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE Today is Jussi Eiramo’s special day organised by him as he has done for many years. After a leisurely breakfast you set off by snowmobile looking for and cutting down your Christmas tree which you can help decorate after lunch back at the hotel.
SANTA VISITS YOU In the late afternoon there is a carol service at Tieva Chapel before a traditional Sami Christmas Eve dinner after which Father Christmas arrives, makes earlier wishes come true and delivers a small present to everyone, grown ups and children alike. 

CHRISTMAS DAY

SNOWMOBILE THROUGH THE FOREST After a leisurely breakfast its time for a wilderness snowmobile safari following your guide along a trail amongst the magnificent fells, broad mires and backwoods lying at the edge of the Urho Kekkonen National Park with grown ups paired together and children wrapped up under warm reindeer skins in a specially built sleigh. Lunch en route by an open fire in the nomadic Sami manner before continuing back to the hotel.

DAY 5

TAKE YOUR DREAMS HOME After breakfast you’ll have time for a last look around the Igloo village before packing up your dreams carefully and transfer to Ivalo for your Finnair scheduled flight[s] to Heathrow where you arrive at 17.10 local time.