Father Christmas Holidays to Lapland
Some time ago, we hit upon the idea of taking children to meet
the real Father Christmas. And in Lapland we found exactly what
our young and young at heart travellers wanted. Then as now, the
secret lay in travelling to villages in the snows where
traditional Finnish Lutheran customs are played out on a small
scale.
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Unfortunately the idea caught on so well that the mass-market operators felt they had to come crashing into the act. They persuaded the inhabitants of Rovaniemi, Saariselka and Levi to put on snow-dusted plastic replicas of the real thing with discos, bars and all the other home “comforts” the mass-market apparently needs. Such trips have all the magic of a visit to a shopping centre in Croydon after a freak fall of snow (with apologies to Croydon). But 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 above the Arctic Circle to just four special places, Harriniva, Yllas, Kakslauttanen and Nellim by Lake Inari, all of which are family owned. |
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At Yllas and Kakslauttanen you will stay in what is essentially a log cabin village, with individual cabins within 25-50m of the main hotel; at Nellim and Harriniva you will have rooms within the hotel. Your family will meet Father Christmas individually to explain your Christmas requests some time before he arrives magically at the hotel with presents for everyone.All of the activities are arranged close to the hotel - we don't need to bus you out to the huskies or snowmobiles. And our husky safaris give you a real sense of the wilderness - not a couple of laps round a 400m track. We have departures on the 6th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th of December and 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, no reps in uniform and no television. Just a family Christmas or New Year with like-minded people. |
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