Had a week in Finland
 

First cold holiday we have deliberately taken.
Accommodation and food basic. Northern lights were in full flow the one night we did not go to see then, under whelming the other nights.
The snow suits we were given worked really well but we still needed warm clothes underneath. .
We tobogganed, snow mobile spectacular view, did a Husky ride and reindeer ride, trekked using snow shoes, saw THE ice hotel which is in Sweeden, went to a couple of museums, did snow angels... as you do :)

Hand warmers earnt their keep. During the Reindeer ride my feet go painfully cold but I had not used feet warmers.

Snow mobile and Husky ride were too slow. Dogs just wanted to run and we kept catching those in front. Snowmobile ride, very bumpy and slow coaches at the rear meant those of us at the front could not go fast except once on the frozen lake/river.

Accommodation very warm even hot at times.
coaches and mini busses very clean
transfers were faultless.

I would not go back to the same place as I'd know what was coming but would do the same sort of holiday again.

we went with Transun
https://www.transun.co.uk/?gclid=Cj0...4aAs2iEALw_wcB

and stayed in cabins at Davvi Arctic Lodge.
cabin was semi detached and if you don't know next door could ne noise as sound insulation not good

macafee2

Interesting, not the sort of holiday I had ever considered; any photos?

Amazing country and people. If you like cross country skiing it is one of the places to go and experience.

Will go back soon.

Jan 2018 we went to iceland for 5 days, booked with icelandic air which was infinitely better than easyjet for the same price. Booked an apartment in Reykjavik and glad we did.
Went on a northern lights trip. -18 stood for 5 hours in a field and saw nothing.

As we saw nothing we were invited back the next night for free, we weren't too keen to go back but decided that if we didn't we would kick ourselves.

Glad we did, never seen anything like it before or will do again. Simply out of this world. I can only describe it as somebody taking an invisible paint brush and painting the sky.

As for being glad we booked an apartment, to eat out was so expensive and we were able to buy in supermarkets most nights and cook at the accommodation.

To give you an idea in a restaurant we had two standard type pizza's and two beers. no change from the equivalent of £80.

As with the OP probably won't go back to the same place but definitely an experience, Blue Lagoon hot springs was a real experience not just for the actual place but also the goings on in the small steam filled outside lagoons/bays :eek:

yep i'll post a few later, alas we lost a load

macafee2

A few pictures of Finland

macafee2

Pretty cool!