Mar 15, 2024
Fun Fun Fun - A fantastic day experiencing so much variation. A fantastic option to fill a day playing in the snow then visiting Santa Claus Village and meeting the man himself!! Brilliant day and staff all fantastic. Highly recommended
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Mar 5, 2024
Amazing - It was a compact excursion like we wanted to be. We were able to experience husky, reindeer, snowmobile and Santa village in one day. Husky and reindeer was at the farm, outside Rovaniemi. So if you are visiting Rovaniem for short break then I recommend it. Husky and reindeer were short rides but we just wanted to experience it.
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Feb 29, 2024
Must have tour - Eano my tour guide was incredible, super fun, great conversation.
Tour started on time .
Great experience next bici to will book again
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Feb 18, 2024
Husky and Reindeer Farm - Beautiful place and very well treated animals . Great explanation about the way of living of the animals.
Overall great experience
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Jan 25, 2024
Amazing !!! - I travelled on my own and I could really enjoy of all activities. Great experience ! The guide was really nice and well organised. I highly recommend this activity .
Review provided by Viator
Jan 23, 2024
Excellent experience worth every penny. Reindeer, Huskies & Snowmobiles in one go! One minor frustration. - Wonderful trip, especially for those who are short on time or want to make their budget go further. All 3 main Lapland experiences in one excursion. We would absolutely do this again and would recommend to anybody else.
Our pick-up location was the Rovaniemi City Office at 10:15 ... we left promptly with other groups on our tour by minivan to the Arctic Circle Snowmobile Park centre in Santa Village. We then got into our winter overalls which keep you very warm and dry. Boots, balaclavas & mittens are also available. The changing room is very small for the number of guests changing at any one time. You do have to squeeze past one another and find a spare corner of space to change. We were advised that we'd be doing Reindeers & Huskies first and snowmobile later. As we were two adults, we requested the Single Rider Supplement option for the snowmobiles and were reassured "Yes, sure, no problem. No need to pay now, we can arrange later.".
Off we were whisked a further 10 mins away to the Reindeer & Husky farm. The scenery is spectacular. Everything you imagine of Lapland. The lap of the 500m reindeer loop takes around 4/5 minutes and is done is groups of c. 12 people (6 pairs). Other groups on other excursions will also be here at the same time so do be prepared to wait a short while. We needed around 6/7 reindeer loops to get through everyone in the group. This wasn't too much problem as we were admiring the scenery but do be prepared to wait. After reindeers its a short walk through the forest to the Huskies. There are a few pens with puppies you can see and stroke whilst you wait for your turn on the husky sled. This is done in just single pairs but takes only about 30 seconds to complete the full 800m loop. Very, very quick. We had already knew to expect this to be quick but hadn't quite anticipated how quick it would feel. After huskies we went into a hut for a talk with a local Sami reindeer herder and had some cookies and warm juice. All very nice and a pleasant experience.
We were then taken back to the Santa Village location for snowmobiling. We were very quickly given our helmets and told to assemble out back ready to walk to the snowmobiles. When we arrived the vehicles are waiting for you. I asked about the "Single Rider" option I had been reassured on earlier and the guides said they had not been informed and it was no longer possible as the vehicles need to be warmed up before being taken out. No flexibility at this point and we had to settle for dual-rider. This was the only disappointment of the day but it did not detract from the experience. In total the journey to and from the stopping/driver change location is about 1 hour total. The scenery, especially near to the stop site is absolutely spectacular. You feel in complete wilderness. Nothing touristy or commercialised about it.
After snowmobiling we were given a full 2 hours to explore Santa Village before our ride back to Rovaniemi which left on time. (We were waiting on another 2 late guests but one of the guides kindly found us a space in another vehicle).
All in all - excellent trip that I'd absolutely do again. Very friendly and informative guides and efficient transfers. The only room for improvement would be to implement a more robust system to acknowledge guests who want to do single-rider on the snowmobiles, better staggered groups so less people are trying to change at any one time and a double-loop on the Husky sleds.
Well deserved 4.5/5 stars! Great value for time and money.
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Jan 19, 2024
best tour to do four main activities at Rovaniemi in a day. - The guide is friendly. Pickup and drop off are perfectly arranged. The reindeer sleigh ride is so fun. The Husky sleigh ride is excellent but too short. It could be better to have a shorter time assigned for the snowmobiling session as the snowmobile is so heavy and too tired for the first timers (drivers). Lastly, It would be nice if to allow more time to explore Santa Claus village as 2 hours is too rush.
Review provided by Viator
Feb 9, 2024
Snowmobile great, everything else? Not worth it. - This tour was nice enough, but for the price wasn’t ideal. Our guides were great, definitely couldn’t fault them. It was just the organisation that lacked a bit. We spent a lot of time just sitting and waiting around, no instruction, no options, just waiting, the tour could’ve been at least an hour or 90min shorter if the timing was bettered.
The activities themselves:
-The snowmobiling was great, an hour is a perfect amount of time and the scenery is beautiful. I’d definitely recommend doing a snow mobile tour with this company. 10/10 for that.
-Huskies, the dogs were super sweet, but it is a rushed quick get on, go around once, pat dogs then wait for the other 50 people to do the same thing (50 might be an exaggeration, but there were definitely too many for the time slot which is why there was so much waiting around). There was no information on the huskies given, and it wasn’t a very enjoyable part of the tour.
-Reindeer, same as huskies, quick on and off the sleigh and go wait in this cabin (granted, hot drinks and cookies by the fire was good as it was a chilling -23°C). There wasn’t any interaction with the reindeer. We did get information about them at this section though, so better than the husky experience.
-Santa’s village, look, if you’re not obsessed with Christmas, this is just boring. It’s very expensive shopping only. 2hrs here is not needed, it takes 10-15min to wander the village. So unless you’re waiting in line for a €30 photo with Santa or getting lunch, it’s really not worth it.
So, this tour was ok. But personally, I wouldn’t recommend it in its entirety, I’d stick with just snowmobiling here. Maybe if the number of participants is lower it’d be better? Just felt like a lot of money for a lot of sitting around.
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Dec 26, 2023
Please advise your guests to take their driver’s license - Enjoyed it
BUT it would have been nice to know that I should have taken my drivers license
Would have if you had told me
Not happy with that
I was unable to drive the snowmobile because I didn’t have my license
Review provided by Viator
Jan 10, 2024
Disappointing compared to last year - We did the same experience, snowmobile tour to Reindeer and Huskyfarm with them last year and it was a lot better then! They used to go to Reitola Reindeer- and Huskyfarm last year which is a real farm.
This year we did a 45 minutes trip by snowmobile, which was nice. Then they took us to the so-called husky and reindeer farm by mini busses. It was not really a farm, just a couple of dogs on one side and a few sad reindeer on the other side. Both rides were very short. Too short. Not even the reindeer sleighs were for self driving as said in the tour description.
After the rides people could sit in an overheated hut by a stinky fireplace a listen to a very short speech about reindeer. But as mentioned this is not a real reindeer farm, so it felt a bit like a tourist trap. Probably people who do the experience for the first time might find it ok, but compared to the wonderful trip last year this was really disappointing.
I cannot recommend this experience.
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