Finland
Dates:
Family trip
Duration:
6
days
Tour:
Private
Day 1: Arrival
Arrive Rovaniemi airport and take your private luxury transfer to the villa. You will be greeted with a welcome reception. Relax a bit before your guide takes you outside to do some snowshoeing and observe Northern Lights. Aurora is best seen in the darkness, with no artificial lights around. Enjoy Nordic gourmet meals and Spa in the lodge. Choose the perfect Christmas tree in front of your villa and decorate it together.
Day 2: The Elves and Santa Claus
Let the miracles start! Surprise visit by the Elves and you're taken out by their magic sleigh, to meet Santa Claus deep in his hideaway place in the depth of secret forest, where only a few can reach and only with the help of Elf Magic. You travel there by a reindeer sleigh. On the way, Elves has got a lot to tell you about their hidden life in the modern world, about their post system and about their full time work as Santa's ambassadors. Suddenly, you see a smoke between snow-covered trees. What is it?
Day 2: Private meeting with Santa
The elf will walk you through a hardly seen trail in a forest and here you are, shaking hands with Santa Claus himself. Kids will learn a lot, and adults will recollect how was it, to be a kid when you get presents from Santa who knew exactly what you all were hoping to get this year!
Day 2: The Elves
Enjoy hot drinks by the open fireplace, cook gingerbread with Elves, and learn some professional Elves secrets from Professor Elves Santa’s Helpers Training. With your brand new Santa’s Helpers Training Diploma, you're now officially entitled to help Santa and his team to manage Christmas time!
Day 2: Family time
Enjoy lunch in front of the open fire, and spend a relaxing afternoon in your home-away-from-home with panorama sauna and outdoor hot tube at your disposal. Spend evening tasting various Arctic meals and hunting the best Northern Lights viewing.
Day 3: Snowmobiling safari & Ice fishing
What about a touch of extreme? No worries, it's absolutely safe even with kids. A private snowmobile safari in the wilderness will take you to a remote frozen lake. Here you will learn how to get your lunch in Finland in winter, you will learn how to ice fish! You can catch, in fact, a very big fish here. Take you lunch back home, chef will be delighted to cook it for the dinner. Train your kids how to build snow castle and practice marksmanship in a snowball game. Or, just take some time for yourself and walk in a secluded winter forest before dinner.
Day 4: Husky dogs sledding
Today, you travel to a husky park for a private husky dog sledding in the woods. Meet lovely huskies and steer your own team through the fascinating scenery of snowy Lapland. Our enthusiastic dogs will take on a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience. Let the dogs lead you through the wild Arctic nature. You will travel about 5 km in a sleigh, deep to the wilderness - and back, to the warm open fire and hot drinks.
Day 4: Santa Village
We return home for another delicious Arctic lunch our chef has just finished cooking for you. After lunch, plunge into the festive atmosphere when you visit the official Santa Claus village. First, you will cross magical Arctic Circle. Choose to you liking between Elf's farmyard zoo, Hat Academy, ice karting and skidoos, or visit one of the biggest snow hotels in the world.
Day 4: Evening at leisure
You may choose to dine in Santa's village and mingle with the happy crowds for a while. Or, return to your private loge and spend some quality time at your leisure hunting for Aurora Borealis.
Day 5: Winter Ice Driving
Today, adults have their time with exclusive experience of winter ice driving in private tracks. Again, no worries. You're on holidays, not in Fort Boyard. There are CanAm buggy cars and you can learn to drive on the private ice tracks. Kids can try/practise ice skating or cross-country skiing. It's actually a lot of fun when you do such activities together. In the afternoon, spend some time walking with your guide at your private reserve. In the evening, we bid our farewells with delicious farewell dinner.
Day 5: Afternoon
Your guide is always happy to arrange last-minute activities. Have you heard of fatbike trails? We have some here in magnificent Lapland. Located at Ounasvaara hill, just behind the river Kemijoki. Network consists of approximately 25 kilometres of easy to ride snow-covered trails.
Day 6: Departure
Morning at leisure after breakfast. At appropriate time, your luxury van transfer will deliver you to Rovaniemi airport.
Private Luxury in the wilderness
Image life as connection to nature. You villa is surrounded by freely roaming reindeer, there are about 200 000 of them here in Lapland and the secluded area of your villa is their natural habitat. Yet, the villa offers impeccable service and comfort of the 5th Avenue hotel.
2-bedroom villa
There is a lounge with dining area, outdoor jacuzzi, sauna, bath, 3 WC, master bedroom and second bedroom with panoramic windows. The villa is the only home in the private 300 ha forest. It also features 2 huge terraces to observe Northern LIghts in Action
Northern Lights Viewing
If skies are clear, you will be able to watch the natural phenomenon, the Northern Lights, directly from you home-away-from-home
1-bedroom villa with loft
This high quality villa has a master bedroom downstairs and a spacious loft upstairs. It accommodates up to 6 people and is located 50 min drive from Rovaniemi airport. It is a rustic but elegant house of typical Scandinavian design.
Other accommodation options available
Let us know how many people are you and will offer the best accommodation options in Rovaniemi area for your family & friends
Accommodation
5 nights accommodation in one of the carefully selected villas (luxury and deluxe options available)
Meals
All meals
Guided tours
All tours are privately guided
Santa Claus visit in a secret forest house (various entertainment programs are available, please inquire)
Husky dog sledding & mushing experience
Snowmobile safari
Ice Skating
Ice driving
Ice fishing
Aurora viewing
Santa Claus village visit
Transport
All ground transpiration
Not Included
Flight to/from Rovaniemi
Travel and medical insurance
John Campbell
Scotland
We booked a tour for Euro 2020, in July 2021, tickets, accommodation, Hermitage and Cathedrals tour, all A++++. Great service, super support, nothing too much trouble at all, used the agency twice now. Super happy.
Gabriel Carvajal
Mexico
My cousin and I attended the first Mexico soccer games of the 2018 World Cup and World of Discoveries was excellent. The lodging accommodations were great and centrally located. The personnel were wonderful. Thank you Tim for taking care of all our request. I was very surprised to received a message at 3 am informing me that our car was outside waiting to transfer us to the airport. That is the level of service that we received from World of Discoveries. Great company that made our trip even more memorable since it was absolutely hassle free.
Jose Leonardo Ramos Mateos
Great experience in Qatar World Cup!!! Great service and support during our trip to Dubai and Qatar for the 2022 FIFA World Cup!!! Helena for the first contact and reservations coordination was just perfect! Michael, Varya, Irena, Anastasia and all the support staff made a great Job and made us feel safe, happy and satisfied with the service and the tours we got. The full tour included welcome party, Desert dinner and show, tour in Dubai and a perfect logistics for travel between Dubai and Qatar. We had no problem with the FIFA hospitality tickets… Simply a perfect and unforgetable trip!!! We will for sure hire World of Discoveries services again soon!!
Juan Torres & Family
Mexico
World Cup experience (A+) It is great when companies do exactly what you paid for. Host Anna, was amazing at answering all questions and posting in the WhatsApp groups the timings and what to expect in each of the stages of the trip. Seats could have been a little better but we were told that it was a Fifa decision.
Pascal Adolphe & Family
Australia
The World of Discoveries team made organising a complex holiday to the Qatar World Cup a breeze. My initial contact, Michael, managed to bring the cost of the holiday in line with my budget where other travel agents told me or would be impossible. On the ground we had a great experience on the desert tour and generally had a ball. Thank you
Sandy Zheng
Australia
Excellent service with friendly staff. Great organised and information detailed. We appreciate your service and help for this World Cup trip to Dubai and Qatar. We had a very awesome experience and a good time. We will continue to travel with you to the next World Cup. keep in touch. All the best to all of you.
(02)8261 0596
Norway
