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Heavenly Peace - 2010
Your dogs are eager for the off! Huskies are at their happiest when there is an adventure before them! You decide who is going to be the musher, then settle down to enjoy the ride through the wilderness where trees bow under their burden of snow and the distant fells look mysterious in the half light.
Your husky experience is a highlight of your four night break but there is so much more from a snowmobile adventure to your search for Santa your short break will be filled with magical experiences.
After a festive flight you land in Enontekio in Finland and are guided to your coach. The journey to Hetta takes around 15 minutes and one hour to the Davvi Arctic Lodge in Karesuando.Watch out for reindeer in the woods!
Temperatures here can fall to -35C in December and you stop to collect your all-in-one thermal suits and boots, an essential part of your holiday package. Hats, scarves and gloves are also necessary, so remember to pack some for everyone!
After checking in at your chosen accommodation, your Transun rep hosts a welcome meeting, giving you all the information needed to get the most from your break and during a welcome dinner your rep will be available to answer any further questions. This evening you can join one of the optional activities.
After breakfast, you enjoy your first included Santa safari, either a 40-minute Husky Experience or a 1.5-hour Snowmobile Adventure, followed by a warming buffet lunch at the hotel.
Throughout the day you can enjoy snow activities outside, with toboggans available free of charge and kick sledges available upon payment of a deposit. This afternoon you can head out for some more snow fun or partake in an optional excursion. After dinner relax or join an optional activity.
You'll experience your second safari after breakfast, either the Husky Experience or Snowmobile Adventure. As before, there are snow activities to be enjoyed. This evening, join a walk to the local church. After a short welcome by the local vicar and carol singing, you return to your accommodation for dinner. Then relax, or join one of the optional night safaris.
After breakfast, you head outside for Supervised Snow Fun. This is a day of supervised activities that include a Snowshoe Trek, Snowball Throwing Contest, Tandem Skis and Children's Skis, Snowman Building, Tug-of-War, Snow Hockey, and lots more! In addition, there will be a supervised kids' snowmobile ride. Lunch will be at your hotel with hot drinks available throughout the day. Afterwards you might want to join in the Christmas crafts indoors. Then the highlight of the day when you board a reindeer sleigh in search of Father Christmas. During a private family meeting in his cabin, each child has the chance to talk with Santa and receives a small gift. Later, enjoy a Festive Dinner at your hotel. After dinner, why not join an optional safari?
Check out after breakfast. Then set off on one final adventure, a Wilderness Treasure Hunt! Alternatively, you have time for one last play in the snow or to join another of the optional excursions. After lunch at the hotel depart for Enontekio and your flight home.
Accommodation:
Jussantupa hotel
This well run hotel is situated in the centre of the village of Hetta. As such it is one of the most prominent local hotels and this is manifest in its lively atmosphere and professional standards of service. It is located on the main road opposite local amenities and affords an excellent base from which to explore your surroundings.
Rooms are neatly decorated using warm colours; the bathrooms are simple and clean and each contains a shower. All rooms are twins and can sleep a child on an extra bed. A large restaurant opens out from the pleasant lobby area and there is a comfortable bar area, perfect for a nightcap or a game of pool.
All 30 rooms have: Shower and WC, telephone, TV and radio.
The hotel has a small lounge area with a small children's play area. Internet is available during reception hours, free of charge. Reception also serves as a small gift shop and the bar with pool table*, serving snacks and hot and cold drinks as well as alcoholic beverages. There are separate communal female and male saunas as well as a private sauna* with lounge that can be booked for your party. There is also an after sauna pool to cool down!
*Local charge applies.
Hetan Majatalo
The Hetan Majatalo is a family run hotel where you are sure to receive a friendly welcome and is an excellent choice for families.
The hotel is set back from the main road and backs onto the forest. Rooms have pine interiors giving a cosy feel. The hotel has only 27 rooms yet offers a range of room types to suit most families.Twin rooms sleep two with an extra bed possible for a child. Family rooms vary in size but sleep between four and six with the possibility of a simple extra bed for one more child in each case. Please note that extra beds constrict space, they will normally be placed in the loft area (family rooms only) and is usually a mattress for a child. There are also two rooms for those less able.
All 27 rooms have: Shower and WC, telephone, TV and radio.
The 24 hour hotel reception also serves as a small gift shop and bar, there is a dining room (in a separate building), lounge area, fitness room*, sauna. There is a small library and internet access.*
*Local charge applies.
Hetan Lomakyla
The Hetan Lomakyla is ideal for those who wish to be close to nature. Set a five minute drive outside the quiet village of Hetta, the accommodation is located on the banks of the River Narpistojoki. It comprises just four cabins, four cottages and four rooms. The accommodation is simple but clean and fully heated. The owner builds a toboggan slope so you can use the free toboggans to your heart's content! There is a small central dining room where meals are taken, except the Festive Dinner, which is taken at a nearby hotel.
The large cabins sleep six or seven people over two floors. They have one bedroom with twin beds, a kitchenette, and a lounge/dining area where there is a sofa that can sleep one adult or two children. In the upstairs loft area there are three beds. These cabins have shower and WC, sauna, TV and fireplace.
The small cabins sleep four persons (max. six) on one floor. The bedroom has twin beds, there is a kitchenette and a lounge/dining area with twin beds and a sofa for one adult or two children.
These have shower and WC, sauna, TV and fireplace.
The cottages are detached and measure 26 sq m. They can sleep two people in comfort with an extra bed possible for a third. In the main lounge/dining area there are twin beds and a sofa which can sleep an addtional person.Cottages have shower, WC and TV.
There is one family room that can sleep three to four persons and three rooms for two persons. The family room has one bedroom with a double bed and a sofa bed in the lounge that can sleep two children.There is also a private sauna and a kitchenette. The twin rooms have twin beds and they can take an extra bed. Rooms have shower, WC and TV.
Davvi Arctic Lodge & Cabins
The Davvi Arctic Lodge is something special; a unique winter retreat offering warmth within the wilderness. When you step inside from the day's activities in the snow the blazing open fire in the cosy lounge will have your cheeks glowing. The accommodation is set on a secluded hillside on the edge of Karesuando, allowing you to savour the peace and tranquility of this unspoilt region and affording panoramic views across to Sweden.
An outdoor ice rink, with skates available for children to hire, is a sure-fire favourite within the hotel grounds while the grown-ups will enjoy an aperitif in the ice bar.
The centrepiece of the hotel is its beautiful restaurant which provides spectacular views across to the Swedish part of Karesuando. The circular design of the restaurant is inspired by the shape of the Sami reindeer corral. Nearby is the lounge area, again part of a circular structure, with a centre skylight that represents the ventilation hole at the top of a Sami lavvu, the reindeer hide tent that has for centuries been the home of the nomadic Sami people. The lounge is comfortably furnished with sofas, chairs and occasional tables, and is equipped with a large flat-screen television.
You are spoilt for choice of accommodation at the Davvi Arctic Lodge. You can stay in hotel rooms, in timber cabins in the grounds or in suites at the Fell House, a converted border guard and customs house 150m away from the main hotel.
The Fell House provides spacious suites, ideal for families. The two bedroom suites sleep five to seven persons, with one double bedroom and one twin bedroomas well as a sofa in the sitting rom which converts to a bed for two children,and there is space for an extra camp bed. Or you can stay in a three bedroom suite, accommodating seven to ten persons with one double bedroom, two twin bedrooms,as well as a sofa in the sitting room which can convert to accommodate two children and there is also space for an extra bed.
The Fell House is 150m away from the Davvi Arctic Lodge where meals are taken. It is connected by a purpose built footpath through the forest, which is on an incline and may not be suitable for the elderly or infirm.
All suites have private facilities and are equipped with larger than standard TV screens showing local programmes only. DVD players can be rented from reception, with a small DVD library available at no extra cost.
Facilities include:
Bar. Reception. Restaurant. Sauna. Spacious grounds.
Holiday Prices - please call or email for a full quote
Departure Airport |
Duration |
Date |
Destination |
Bristol |
5 days |
28th November |
Karesuando |
Bournemouth |
5 days |
5th December |
Karesuando |
Gatwick |
5 days |
12th December |
Karesuando |
Manchester |
5 days |
27th November |
Hetta |
Birmingham |
5 days |
29th November |
Hetta |
East Midlands |
5 days |
4th December |
Hetta |
Stansted |
5 days |
6th December |
Hetta |
Birmingham |
5 days |
11th December |
Hetta |
Manchester |
5 days |
13th December |
Hetta |
Our Lapland Manager has been escorting trips to see Santa since 1993. Please call or email Dawn if you require impartial and knowledgable advice prior to making your booking with us. |
Call us on: 01989 730 552 |
