Wake Up Santa

3 Nights

Kittila

During your stay you will head off into the forest and go searching for him with your guide pulling you along in a snowmobile sleigh. Keep your eyes peeled as you look out for elves. As you drive near you can see moving lanterns held by the elves who sneak up to greet you. They know the secret path to Santa’s cabin and will guide your family through the lantern lit path straight to his cabin. As the children knock on his door will they wake him up from his little nap around the fire?

From £737pp
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Highlights

  • Private Santa meeting
  • Christmas dinner
  • Lunch in the ice restaurant
  • 20km snowmobile safari
  • 6 km husky safari
  • Reindeer ride and farm visit
  • Cookie baking
  • Snow fun activities

 

  • Day 1 - Arrival
  • Day 2 - Reindeer and Husky
  • Day 3 - Snowmobiles, cookie baking, snow fun and Santa
  • Day 4 - Departure
  • Additional Information

Arrival at Kittilä airport and transfer to Muonio: Harriniva or Jeris. You will be issued with your warm winter clothes either tonight or tomorrow morning. Dinner and overnight in cosy hotel room or cabin.

Meals Included: D

The Harriniva Hotel

Cozy accommodation on the shore of Europe´s longest free-flowing riverThe Harriniva Hotel’s 64 rooms offer accommodation for every taste. You can find rooms from the smaller double room to the big sauna rooms and wilderness suites. The guest rooms are decorated in a wilderness style and each one of them has its own bathroom. Some of the rooms also have a private sauna and, in addition, guests can use the hotel’s sauna daily.Right next to the hotel, you will find our cottages by the Muonio River. Our camping cabins offer comfortable sleeping for four people and the cabins have electricity but no running water. There are also cabins with sauna, a private bathroom and kitchenette.In our newest cabins, Riverside Cabins, we offer comfortable staying for six people. Riverside cabins are equipped with own sauna, bathroom and kitchenette. These cabins are perfect for admiring the Midnight Sun and the Northern Lights from the shore of Muonio River with a little better privacy.In our campsite you will find 32 caravan sites and 20 tent places that are located next to Muonio River and the hotel’s restaurant services. We also offer a fabulous setting for staying in the middle of nature in wilderness cabins, that we also rent for private use in Western Lapland area.

After breakfast we will transfer you to a local reindeer farm to meet the reindeer. You will have a chance to feed them, learn how to throw a lasso and experience a short reindeer ride. Lunch will be served in the ice restaurant*.
This afternoon we will go to the husky farm where you will have a guided tour and meet some of our husky pups to have a cuddle with.
Learn a little about the dogs before enjoying a 6km safari.
Christmas dinner and overnight in cosy hotel room or cabin.

Meals Included: Full Board

The Harriniva Hotel

Cozy accommodation on the shore of Europe´s longest free-flowing riverThe Harriniva Hotel’s 64 rooms offer accommodation for every taste. You can find rooms from the smaller double room to the big sauna rooms and wilderness suites. The guest rooms are decorated in a wilderness style and each one of them has its own bathroom. Some of the rooms also have a private sauna and, in addition, guests can use the hotel’s sauna daily.Right next to the hotel, you will find our cottages by the Muonio River. Our camping cabins offer comfortable sleeping for four people and the cabins have electricity but no running water. There are also cabins with sauna, a private bathroom and kitchenette.In our newest cabins, Riverside Cabins, we offer comfortable staying for six people. Riverside cabins are equipped with own sauna, bathroom and kitchenette. These cabins are perfect for admiring the Midnight Sun and the Northern Lights from the shore of Muonio River with a little better privacy.In our campsite you will find 32 caravan sites and 20 tent places that are located next to Muonio River and the hotel’s restaurant services. We also offer a fabulous setting for staying in the middle of nature in wilderness cabins, that we also rent for private use in Western Lapland area.

After breakfast we head out on a 20km snowmobile safari, with two adults sharing a snowmobile and children sitting in a sled pulled by a guide.
After a short break for your included lunch you will bake Finnish cookies and make some Christmas crafts. The afternoon fun continues with snow fun. Test your skills at snowshoeing, cross country ski or zooming down the toboggan slope (you are never too old to toboggan!) Children will also have a chance to drive their own mini snowmobile, under supervision.
Then the highlight of the trip as you are whisked off in to the forest by snowmobile sled in search of Santa’s secret hide out in the forest. Dinner in the restaurant and overnight in cosy hotel room or cabin.

Meals Included: Full Board

The Harriniva Hotel

Cozy accommodation on the shore of Europe´s longest free-flowing riverThe Harriniva Hotel’s 64 rooms offer accommodation for every taste. You can find rooms from the smaller double room to the big sauna rooms and wilderness suites. The guest rooms are decorated in a wilderness style and each one of them has its own bathroom. Some of the rooms also have a private sauna and, in addition, guests can use the hotel’s sauna daily.Right next to the hotel, you will find our cottages by the Muonio River. Our camping cabins offer comfortable sleeping for four people and the cabins have electricity but no running water. There are also cabins with sauna, a private bathroom and kitchenette.In our newest cabins, Riverside Cabins, we offer comfortable staying for six people. Riverside cabins are equipped with own sauna, bathroom and kitchenette. These cabins are perfect for admiring the Midnight Sun and the Northern Lights from the shore of Muonio River with a little better privacy.In our campsite you will find 32 caravan sites and 20 tent places that are located next to Muonio River and the hotel’s restaurant services. We also offer a fabulous setting for staying in the middle of nature in wilderness cabins, that we also rent for private use in Western Lapland area.

After breakfast departure to Kittilä airport.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Tuesday and Thursday arrivals only!

PACKAGE INCLUDES

  • Return transfers from Kittilä
  • Winter clothing
  • 3 nights full board
  • Christmas dinner
  • Lunch in the ice restaurant*
  • Private Santa meeting **
  • Santa present service
  • 20km snowmobile safari
  • 6 km husky safari
  • Reindeer ride and farm visit
  • Cookie baking
  • Snow fun activities
  • All day coffee and tea for adults
  • Soft drinks for children

Wake Up Santa is available from 21st November to 23rd December
in Harriniva and Jeris.

** Santa Service:
Bring with you your children’s letter to Santa along with a small gift (max. value 20€) from their wish list and we will have them waiting in the cabin. Imagine your child’s eyes light up when not only has he got their letter but he has already got one gift from their wish list ready for them!

*Lunch in the ice restaurant is weather dependant. Should the ice restaurant not be ready or the temperature be extremely cold lunch will be served around the fire in a traditional kota.

This is a sample itinerary, a full itinerary will be given in resort. We hold the right to make changes to the program itinerary according to weather conditions.