Holiday Club Saariselkä



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Holiday Club Saariselka is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Saariselka, offering a family-friendly environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
Saariselka Reindeer Farm (0.2 mi), located nearby, makes Holiday Club Saariselka a great place to stay for those interested in visiting this popular Saariselka landmark.
Holiday Club Saariselka is a family-friendly hotel offering a flat screen TV in the rooms, and it is easy to stay connected during your stay as free wifi is offered to guests.
Plus, guests can enjoy a pool and free breakfast, which have made this a popular choice among travellers visiting Saariselka. For guests with a vehicle, free parking is available.
While staying in Saariselka, you can check out a popular diner like Sport Bistro Pilkku, which is serving up some great dishes.
Enjoy your stay in Saariselka!
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If you are going to this hotel in the winter season then your there for the magic of christmas and on a short stay so you spend very little time in the hotel anyway, The food choices weren't amazing and wasn't a great deal to choose from but there was always something for the kids sausage and chips, chicken nuggets etc so you won't starve. If you get hungry between meal times you can get hotdogs and sandwiches.
Rooms are not cleaned daily but again short stay so doesn't really matter. The hotel is in a prime location with a bar over the road supermarket to the right 500m down the road and to the left is more hotels another bar and the toboggan slopes.
All the staff are helpful and friendly the rooms are OK can be slightly crowded in the rooms if your are a family of 3 or more but again need to remember where you are it's a very seasonal place and only short stays this is not a hotel for long stay unless you get one of the apartments.
The hotel is pricey but Finland as a whole I'd very pricey €9.60 for a pint and if you actually get a full pint you be lucky but again it is expected and should be costed into your stay. There is a a couple of slightly cheaper places to get food and drinks but your talking pennies not a massive amount.
Overall would stay again and would recommend.
Beds looked like they would be awful, but were actually really comfy & we all slept well. Walls are a little thin so maybe take ear plugs if you’re a light sleeper.
The food was copious in the buffets, lots of British favourites for breakfast - bacon, scrambled eggs, beans, toast, cereal etc alongside some more continental options cold meats, cheese, roasted veg etc all very tasty!
Dinner always had an option of sausages, chicken nuggets and chips for the fussier eaters amongst us. Alongside some really tasty grown up options.
The pool has really weird opening times 1400-2030 so on a busy schedule it’s hard to fit a swim in. But we managed one and the kids loved it.
Be prepared that the rules for the sauna are to be naked (towels allowed) but no swimwear.
The hotel on the whole was warm and welcoming after a long day in the snow. There are little drying cupboards in the bathroom for gloves, towels etc.
Hair dryer is provided.
There is a small shop within reception selling snacks, drinks & a few souvenirs it’s open 24/7 which was handy.

There was not enough storage space to put all of our clothes unfortunately and so we had to leave our clothes in 1 of our large suitcases throughout our stay.
The twin beds are pushed together and are VERY uncomfortable because the mattresses are VERY thin & placed on top of a hard divan base!
The sofa bed is also VERY uncomfortable and sloped down toward the floor on one side, this meant having to put cushions on the floor incase one of the kids rolled out!
The shower room is also very small!
The food was good, a good choice of mains at dinner time, unfortunately only one boring desert everyday which was usually a mousse ( chocolate or strawberry) which left the kids disappointed.
Come on Holiday Club, you can do better!
Also the orange & apple juice wasn’t fresh , a syrup mixed with water at a help yourself machine.
The staff were lovely, and it was fantastic having the pool and saunas to use from 2.30 -8.30 each day. Great to get back from a trip out and be able to take the kids for a swim. The pool also has swimming aids you can borrow.
The hotel is situated in a great location very close to the forest walks. Only takes 20 mins to walk from the hotel up to the aurora hut.
I went to the desk to tell them about this, hoping there was something they could do. Since by this point we were starving, tired and most restaurants were shutting. The woman half apologised, didn’t take us very seriously and told us that it was an external cleaning company and there was nothing we could do.



The restaurant is very pretty, however just not big enough for the number of guests. I felt like breakfast was a free-for all (had a Benidorm feel about that)
The breakfast food was good and had a great selection.
Our first night I felt was quite poor selection of food for dinner. Mediocre at best.
The thing that bugged me most with the hotel, apart from lots of the staff (not Santa’s Lapland staff-they were jolly enough) not seemingly wanting to be there or help in any kind of way, is the pretence of the angry birds soft play being here. This was a big pull for us when deciding to book the hotel. Our kids would have loved it and it was closed and apparently has been for quite some time. It’s still there on the hotel website and even on the signposts in the hotel.
The hotel is large and we were at the back end of the hotel, which was quite the hike with all of the suitcases. Be prepared for that!
The family room we had was a lot smaller than I had expected too. Imagine a travel lodge room. There was one wardrobe for all of us, no other storage (suitcase fit under the bed) and it’s a small space to all get ready in the snowsuits. The drying cupboard for the wet gloves/socks etc is small too (and positioned above the toilet....so take care!) and very noisy when it’s on.
The room got too stuffy on a night time. I get why they don’t allow guests to open the windows but it would have been nice to have some kind of temperature control for your own room.
The tv was all in Finnish. Not that that mattered to us but be aware.
There were plenty of sockets in the room for driers/chargers etc and we connected to WiFi in the reception area. Not so much in the rooms.
On our last day, our flight time changed, giving us extra hours to be on resort. Despite having paid an awful lot of money to stay at the hotel, they were going to charge us to use the showers to freshen up before we left which I thought was a bit cheeky. We ended up using the shower extension in the toilets to wash instead but I feel that decision could be reviewed by the hotel.
If visiting Lapland, prepare for the expense of it. Imagine london and add 30%. I paid over €20 for a pint and a half of cider and a sprite!
We would love to visit Lapland again. Would we stay here again. Probably not. The pool was the biggest asset to the hotel. I’d give everything else a generous 3*.
The food is very basic and not much choice but to be fair to them it’s to a reasonable standard.
The restaurant is quite small so in busy times you could be standing waiting for a table for a while.
The room again is very basic but if I’m honest very grimy and dirty.
On entering the room we noticed straight away that there was other peoples rubbish under the beds and dirt across the floor and low down on the walls where it’s obviously been cleaned with a very dirty mop.
The towels were very rough and it was just very under-loved and not taken care of.
The staff in general were ok but nothing special, not a lot of smiles and friendly faces, apart from the reps but that is their one job!
As a base this place is acceptable but nothing special, the area is amazing and beautiful nothing like I’ve ever seen but you don’t have to stay here to experience that.
Regarding the hotel: the bedding is of good quality, you are allowed to clean the room once a week but you don't have to be picky....
I think the hotel and restaurant staff before working in this place must have worked in a penitentiary....
As for catering: decent breakfast, lunch (a great time!!!), dinner not bad but very limited choice, desserts: mousse at all meals and tasteless...
Luckily the little biscuits that come with it are good.
the prices charged at the bar depend on the weeks and the influence at the hotel, I do not recommend school holidays +30%. on the other hand I can recommend the PUB just opposite the hotel.
The swimming pool is a good way to end the afternoon, it's a little cold in the changing rooms but that's a detail....

"Bring T Bags & Coffee for the apartments as it’s pricey and they come in packs of 25 in the supermarket."Read full review
"The buffet gets crowded easily so try and come as early as possible (no need to wake up at 6 and get a spot) and sit down."Read full review
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