Lapland Hotels SnowVillage
Lapland Hotels SnowVillage
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Have unique arctic adventures at Snow Village!
Here you will see the breathtaking constructions made of snow and ice. If you are brave enough you may spend a night in the snow suite, have a dinner at the top class ala carte restaurant or enjoy a drink served in ice glass. Or you can just marvel at the magnificent sculpture art all around the area.
We are located in Western part of Finnish Lapland, in close proximity of Ylläs and Levi ski-resorts and easily reachable from the international airport of Kittilä.
You are very welcome to come around and have an experience of life time!
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- Anna C3 contributionsBrilliant scultures, well worth a visitMade the trip ourselves, taxi frm lodge to SnowVillage was about 60Euros, entry was about 60 euros for 2adults & 2kids. Well worth a visit, spent about 2.5hrs there and will def go again next year. Kids (11yr old twins) loved it as much as we did.Visited January 2024Travelled with familyWritten 18 January 2024
- Maya CBaar, Switzerland55 contributionsBeautiful art made of snow and ice. Northern mythology.Amazing place created out of snow and ice. The theme this year is extremely great. Beautiful art! Northern mythology. We visited end of January 2024. We had a blast at the ice slide and in the beautiful bar. Drinks out of ice glasses. I loved all the gorgeous rooms. Especially the one with the polar bear, the brown bear and the beautiful Northern godess.Visited January 2024Travelled with friendsWritten 3 February 2024
- luxuryvoyageSwitzerland4,015 contributionsnice for a day visitWe visited the place as day guests and liked the artfully designed snow rooms. Snow Village is worth a visit during the day (1-2hours is enough), but I wouldn’t spend the night there. For an extraordinary experience with an overnight stay in an ice hotel, I strongly recommend the icehotel in Kiruna, Sweden.Visited February 2024Travelled as a coupleWritten 3 May 2024
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Taylor766
Oxfordshire60 contributions
Dec 2022 • Family
So after a year of waiting it was finally our turn for the TUI search for Santa day trip to the snow village on Sunday.. here are my thoughts and tips 🤩 took my 10 year old son on my own and it was super easy to get around and all well organised…🇫🇮🎄🎅
Very long day and early start, we booked an airport hotel the night before and checked in online, this meant we got to the airport about 2 hrs before which was plenty as no luggage.…
The flight out with TUI was fun and full on 😂 the staff were dressed up, lots of Christmas games and music plus snacks and food 👍🏻
Arrived and straight to get our suits from the warehouse (had our own boots and glad we did!) very well organised and were one of the first out… lots of helpful elves about to help with anything 😂
Waited on the bus for about 40 mins which was a shame as we waited for one family to get sorted 🙄 so that was time lost…
About a 25 min drive to the resort, given times for lunch and Santa then off to explore ourselves….
Loved it all, unfortunately couldn’t do the snow mobiles as my 10 year old was a few cm too small 🙄 this was a real shame as it was the longest taster session and given no option to have a sleigh behind… loved the huskies (very short about 30 seconds) lots of other activities to do such as sledging, football in the snow, snow ball fights etc! The sleigh ride to see Santa was just magical in the dark through the forests and we were impressed with Santa and the cabin too! 🎅
Tips… it was minus 22!! Take spare of everything, I thought I’d packed too much but we got through it all as it snowed the entire time so all hats, scarves, etc got very wet quickly! Didn’t use the hand warmers id packed…my hair froze, lashes and brows 😂 plus iceicles form every time you breath in your nose! I wore glasses which also constantly steamed up 🤷🏻♀️🙈 we wore base thermals plus jumper and fleece, leggings and joggers and suits and just warm enough in those temperatures ❄️🥶 no chance of the lights unfortunately as snowing, however managed to capture a glimpse in one of my pics still! 🤩
Flight home seemed very long as we were very tired (you feel like you’ve been blasted by the cold weather!) 😂 but got home ok and back in bed in the UK by 1am ish…
Overall a magical day, did everything we wanted and what an experience…could not fault TUI and we got a really good deal booking a year in advance, would do it all over again if I could! 🤩
Very long day and early start, we booked an airport hotel the night before and checked in online, this meant we got to the airport about 2 hrs before which was plenty as no luggage.…
The flight out with TUI was fun and full on 😂 the staff were dressed up, lots of Christmas games and music plus snacks and food 👍🏻
Arrived and straight to get our suits from the warehouse (had our own boots and glad we did!) very well organised and were one of the first out… lots of helpful elves about to help with anything 😂
Waited on the bus for about 40 mins which was a shame as we waited for one family to get sorted 🙄 so that was time lost…
About a 25 min drive to the resort, given times for lunch and Santa then off to explore ourselves….
Loved it all, unfortunately couldn’t do the snow mobiles as my 10 year old was a few cm too small 🙄 this was a real shame as it was the longest taster session and given no option to have a sleigh behind… loved the huskies (very short about 30 seconds) lots of other activities to do such as sledging, football in the snow, snow ball fights etc! The sleigh ride to see Santa was just magical in the dark through the forests and we were impressed with Santa and the cabin too! 🎅
Tips… it was minus 22!! Take spare of everything, I thought I’d packed too much but we got through it all as it snowed the entire time so all hats, scarves, etc got very wet quickly! Didn’t use the hand warmers id packed…my hair froze, lashes and brows 😂 plus iceicles form every time you breath in your nose! I wore glasses which also constantly steamed up 🤷🏻♀️🙈 we wore base thermals plus jumper and fleece, leggings and joggers and suits and just warm enough in those temperatures ❄️🥶 no chance of the lights unfortunately as snowing, however managed to capture a glimpse in one of my pics still! 🤩
Flight home seemed very long as we were very tired (you feel like you’ve been blasted by the cold weather!) 😂 but got home ok and back in bed in the UK by 1am ish…
Overall a magical day, did everything we wanted and what an experience…could not fault TUI and we got a really good deal booking a year in advance, would do it all over again if I could! 🤩
Written 23 December 2022
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Jaakko S
Helsinki, Finland105 contributions
Feb 2020
We visited Snow Village on our drive from Kittilä airport to Ylläs, and it was definitely worth the it. The art is incredible, I never realised it's possible to to all this with snow and some well placed lights. The site was also much larger than we expected. Well worth the 18€ and the time!
Written 25 February 2020
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Andrew W
Poole, UK5 contributions
Dec 2024 • Family
We did a Tuesday to Sunday trip warlt December 2024 with 2 boys from Gatwick. Flight had no Xmas spirit. Long wait for bags at airport. Arrived at hotel and lack of communication on how to get to our chalet and no signage. We had bad luck with the weather as not enough snow for huskies, over cast so not able to see northern lights, ski toboggan not working as windy. Day trip to Santa felt rushed and we queued for 1 hour of the 2.5 hour visit there, this left no time to do all the activities plus our coach was 30 minutes late getting there. Hotel pool cost us 45 euro for a swim and should have really been included given our holiday cost us £5.5k. Bus to local lake was 37 euro, everything is very pricey. Overall kids had an ok ish time but would have got a much better holiday elsewhere, TUi were not very helpful and their app was pretty poor.
Written 7 December 2024
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Heidis_Travels
Turku, Finland130 contributions
Dec 2020 • Couples
We visited the snow castle during our stay at Ylläs. It’s only 30 minutes drive. Got to admit that we were a bit sceptical on the quality and level of the handcraft to expect - but the castle really blew our minds off! What a spectacular piece of art and master piece of talented handcraft it is ❤️
Beyond everything the castle is built only in four weeks by around 30 professionals. Hats off.
It’s been a challenging year for the travel business and I can imagine that not building the castle has been an option too to balance the finance. I’m happy they still did it 💪🏽
Absolutely a place worth visiting.
Ps. There’s an ice slide open for grown-ups and an ice bar too 😅
Beyond everything the castle is built only in four weeks by around 30 professionals. Hats off.
It’s been a challenging year for the travel business and I can imagine that not building the castle has been an option too to balance the finance. I’m happy they still did it 💪🏽
Absolutely a place worth visiting.
Ps. There’s an ice slide open for grown-ups and an ice bar too 😅
Written 30 December 2020
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Holly Page
Bristol, UK57 contributions
Jan 2022 • Couples
I’ve visited a few times now, the most recent being in January this year. Different themes every year and the art and sculpture work never fails to amaze me! The rooms are incredible, absolutely love the place. The ice bar is very cool but this year found it to be very small (maybe covid related), nevertheless I didn’t miss out on an ice shot! I definitely recommend paying this place a visit if you’re in Lapland over winter.
Written 28 April 2022
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Sealover51a
Fife, UK8 contributions
Dec 2023 • Family
Facts you must be aware of before you book!! Actual time at snow village 3 1/2 hours!
Husky ride lasts 3 minutes!
Reindeer ride last 5 minutes!
Only 1 ride of each strictly no second shots!!
Packet biscuits and huge tubes of icing which were too hard to use for decorating!!
Sleigh ride through the woods to Santa truly fabulous !! Santa in a hut no fairy lights not magical and I had to prompt him to strike up conversation with my 7 year old grandson who is not shy at all!!
£3 soft toy elf as a gift!!
Snow village sculptures are amazing but you can walk through that in 15 minutes!!
Food average - buffet style but plentiful!!
It was a surprise for my grandson and he really did love it!! The scenery was magical and we did have lots of fun!! However it is completely overrated and definitely not worth the money!! We’ve been to Xmas venues in UK which far exceed the effort here!! Honestly it’s a rip off!!!! 6/10 at a push!!
Husky ride lasts 3 minutes!
Reindeer ride last 5 minutes!
Only 1 ride of each strictly no second shots!!
Packet biscuits and huge tubes of icing which were too hard to use for decorating!!
Sleigh ride through the woods to Santa truly fabulous !! Santa in a hut no fairy lights not magical and I had to prompt him to strike up conversation with my 7 year old grandson who is not shy at all!!
£3 soft toy elf as a gift!!
Snow village sculptures are amazing but you can walk through that in 15 minutes!!
Food average - buffet style but plentiful!!
It was a surprise for my grandson and he really did love it!! The scenery was magical and we did have lots of fun!! However it is completely overrated and definitely not worth the money!! We’ve been to Xmas venues in UK which far exceed the effort here!! Honestly it’s a rip off!!!! 6/10 at a push!!
Written 18 December 2023
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Anna C
3 contributions
Jan 2024 • Family
Made the trip ourselves, taxi frm lodge to SnowVillage was about 60Euros, entry was about 60 euros for 2adults & 2kids. Well worth a visit, spent about 2.5hrs there and will def go again next year.
Kids (11yr old twins) loved it as much as we did.
Kids (11yr old twins) loved it as much as we did.
Written 18 January 2024
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Mélissa R
11 contributions
Mar 2024 • Business
Business trip with guided tour of the ice hotel of approximately 30 minutes, followed by lunch in the very unusual and excellent ice restaurant. We were surprised by the quality of the ice sculptures and the uniqueness of each room. Absolutely worth visiting once in your life!
Written 25 March 2024
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CherylHooson
Halifax, UK201 contributions
Feb 2022
We stayed here one night, check in is not whilst 22.00 but you get tour of hotel. You are allocated sleeping bags and pillow. Rooms have no doors and you have to walk to toilet's. You do not take anything in with you and any cloths are placed in the sleeping bag with you, shoes are on their side or upside down.
The rooms are very light, and the mattress not very comfy, thee is a warm room you can go to away from hotel.
The ice bar stops serving at 8pm like everywhere in Finland so due to check in times we missed this.
It is a very strange experience to say the least, the temp is between 0c and -5.
It was one of the bucket list ticked but wouldn't try it again.
The rooms are very light, and the mattress not very comfy, thee is a warm room you can go to away from hotel.
The ice bar stops serving at 8pm like everywhere in Finland so due to check in times we missed this.
It is a very strange experience to say the least, the temp is between 0c and -5.
It was one of the bucket list ticked but wouldn't try it again.
Written 14 February 2022
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luxuryvoyage
Switzerland4,015 contributions
Feb 2024 • Couples
We visited the place as day guests and liked the artfully designed snow rooms. Snow Village is worth a visit during the day (1-2hours is enough), but I wouldn’t spend the night there. For an extraordinary experience with an overnight stay in an ice hotel, I strongly recommend the icehotel in Kiruna, Sweden.
Written 3 May 2024
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Lidia D
Cadiz, Spain
Goodmornig!! When snowvillage is open to the public on 2024 for just visiting and how much is the ticket?
Thank you very much
Written 22 January 2024
Hi, is there a gift shop here? Also, we are having our taster activities and meeting Santa based here with Tui as part of our 4 night stay. Are you able to look around the rooms and buildings or is this extra?
Written 5 September 2023
Hello, my sister is thinking of getting married here, hopefully the ice chapel, can anyone tell me as we haven’t had a reply yet, is the chapel only available at certain times of year or all Winter? Thanks
Written 26 April 2020
What a wonderful idea, you will really enjoy it I'm sure, best make inquiries early as I would imagine it could get booked up as it is open to pubic every day and yours will be special and I'm sure you will not want every tom, Dick and Harry popping into the chapel and taking pictures
If you decide not to marry there still go and see, it's wonderful what they can do and something you will never forget
Written 27 April 2020
Hi staying in levi cabins, thinking of visiting on wed 4th dec 2019, 4 adults+ 2 children, are you open then, can we by buy tickets on the door. Thanks and regards
Written 1 December 2019
Hi everyone I am visiting yllas lapland in December and want to know the best way to book the snow village excursion.i have some excursions booked already but the kids would love the snow village. We are there 4 days ,is it far from yllas and is it better to go through your tour operator
Written 9 November 2019
Hello Paul,
I would recommend you to book this from your tour operator if this is possible.
Othervise, what I know, the only way to get there is by car or taxi, and that will cost propably about 70€ (oneway)because it takes about 30 min to drive from Ylläs to Snowvillage.
You could also write email to snowvillage ( at ) laplandhotels(.) com and ask if they have daily bussroute from Ylläs to Snowvillage.
Hope you enjoy your holiday.
Remember to take warm clothes and shoes with you when you come. -22 C at the moment. ;)
Written 9 November 2019
Bonjour. Nous sommes un groupe de 11 personnes intéressées pour venir visiter votre village, après avoir expérimenté celui de Kemi l.an dernier. Mais nous n.avons qu’une voiture. Quel est l.arret de transport en commun le plus proche de chez vous ? Existe t’il dès navettes qui partent de Levi et qui vont jusqu’à votre hôtel sans tomber dans un forfait circuit ? Merci de votre réponse
Written 8 October 2019
Nous avions une location chalet à Levi et loué une voiture pour 15 jours. Le mieux est de vous informer à l’office du tourisme de Levi ou appeler le lapland hôtel qui doit organiser des navettes depuis Levi.
Written 22 November 2019
Bonjour,
Je voudrais savoir si dans les chambres nous avons une vue sur le ciel pour observer ou si tout est fermé?
Jennifer
Written 3 June 2019
Bonjour. Non tout est fermé comme dans un igloo. Vous n avez aucune vue sur l extérieur que ce soit dans les chambres ou dans les autres pièces.
Written 4 June 2019
For those who have stayed in the snow village, would you recommend for a family with two kids aged 6 and 9? I noticed the village is open until 10pm each night. We will be flying out of the Australian summer so obviously it's going to be freezing. Is the bedding going to be warm enough upon the layers of clothes that we will wear?
Written 22 April 2019
Yes it will be just fine, it is cold at -5 but they are well equipped and the experience will be fab for all.
Written 23 April 2019
Is there a public bus line or shuttle service offered from Levi Centre?
Written 13 February 2019
sorry but i'm not sure… normally everybody go there with their car or with a bus of they compagny during a trip… But perhaps because it's like a museum… i think you can phone to ask your question….
Written 1 May 2019
Lapland Hotels SnowVillage
Kolari, Finland
Bonjour,
L'entrée au SnowVillage est de 17,50€ par adulte et 10€ pour les enfants.
Sophie
SnowVillage
Written 11 January 2019
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