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Snow Hotels & Igloo Villages in Finland | Sleeping under ice

// Of all the many available choices of accommodation in Finland, perhaps the most exotic are the many places where visitors can spend a night in a room fashioned from snow and ice. Indeed, this option has proven to be one of the winter’s most popular as can be seen by the increase in the [...]

Santa’s Resort Kakslauttanen | Lapland’s latest attraction

At around 250 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, Saariselkä is home to Europe’s most northerly holiday resort, perhaps even the most northerly resort in the world. The newest attraction to open here is guaranteed to become one of the most popular in a region already blessed with numerous good reasons to visit. The delightful, [...]

Rovaniemi – A Winter Wonderland | Official Hometown of Santa Claus

Rovaniemi was listed as one of the top christmas destinations in not but three separate tourism articles published recently: in Forbes, Readers Digest  and in the Asia Tatler.  It’s not hard to see why, Rovaniemi is branded as “The Official Hometown of Santa Claus”, and with both Santa Claus Village and the underground fantasy land [...]