The Santa’s Gift House is, with the Roosevelt Cottage, the historical building of the Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi. Santa’s Gift House is located in the middle of the Village. This building, representing a unique architecture and crossed by the Arctic Circle line, is protected and definitely worth visiting. Santa’s Gift House is, with its various boutiques and restaurants, a unique destination for shopping or for a lunch or a coffee break.

Traveler’s Arctic Circle Information Point is located in the middle of the building. In addition you can find in the Gift House the following companies:


Shop of Christmas House is the largest shop in Santa Claus Village. From our wide selection you can find Lappish delicacies and beautiful gifts for souvenir. We have lot of nice jackets, pullovers, socks and accessories. You can buy in the shop the certificate of the crossing of the Arctic Circle and nice postcards.

In addition you find in our shop also locally made jewelry. We have also a minimarket in our shop.

BestPark Arctic Circle is a licensed and safe caravan park for camper vans and trailers. The area, located some hundreds of meters from the center of the Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, is more compact than traditional campsites, and all services at the Arctic Circle are located next to the park. All facilities needed are included to the low parking fee; electricity, fresh water, toilet, shower, emptying the chemical toilet, drive-over sewage, waste disposal, electronic door opening automation, pre-booking option, service building, terrace and barbecue area and sauna.

The Three Elves restaurant is a beautiful and atmospheric restaurant in the middle of Santa Claus Village. You can enjoy a rich buffet breakfast and delicious à la carte dishes in the evenings. In addition, our restaurant has a cozy bar where you can order a cup of hot glög. You can come to the restaurant alone or with a larger group, there is room for about 160 people.

Reserve a table by email and come and experience the magic of Lapland and Christmas!

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The cozy Christmas House restaurant in Santa Claus Holiday Village offers a delicious breakfast in the winter, a generous buffet full of delicious home-cooked food and cafe products. In summer time, the restaurant is open as a cafeteria. Christmas House is one of Santa Claus Village’s oldest restaurants.

You can come to the Christmas House restaurant alone, with your family or with a larger group, as there is enough space for up to 160 people at once. This unique restaurant has a warm atmosphere, and the best part is that Santa lives in the same building. You can’t get any closer to the magic of Christmas!

Inquiries and reservations by e-mail to restaurant@schv.fi

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The wonderful Santa’s Cuisine restaurant is located in the middle of the cottage village of Santa Claus Holiday Village (https://www.santaclausholidayvillage.fi/). The restaurant can accommodate 100 people to eat, and there is also a meeting facility. Santa’s Cuisine serves daily during the winter season, and in the summer the restaurant can be rented for private use, for example for a company’s meeting day or for a big family celebration.

Reservations and requests for offers by email to restaurantscv@schv.fi.

Modern design and exclusive comfort in the heart of Santa Claus Village, right next to the Santa Claus Office, yet in a quiet spot. In case you want your accommodation with plenty of room, luxurious furnishing, comfort and memorable details in the best location of the Santa Claus Village, you have found the right place.

The log house has two floors and comprises two large apartments , one apartment (100 m²) on each floor. Both apartments have two separate bedrooms, kitchen, living room and dining area, so the apartments accommodate even for larger families. Apartments can also be connected, so you can also book the whole house (200 m²) by booking both apartments at the same time. In our Villa Modern design mingles with only the best natural materials. The luxurious furnishing adds to the comfort and provides the finishing touches on the dignified surroundings while the specialty of our apartments, the atmospheric modern Finnish log house, invites you to enjoy yourself in extreme cosyness.

In our boutique you can find the best Lapland and Santa souvenirs and gift items like for example high-quality soft toys, reindeer hides, postcards and so on. The store offers also Santa’s unique certificates and greeting cards:  we have Santa’s aurora certificate, Arctic Circle crossing certificate and a  certificate about the meeting Santa himself. You can also buy Santa’s greeting card to your closed ones.

In addition our store has the  jerseys, beanies, caps, scarves and other fan products  of FC Santa Claus, Santa’s famous football / soccer team based in Rovaniemi.

In addition you can reserve in shop the safaris and activities of Christmas House Safaris in Rovaniemi.

Welcome to a colourful world of beautiful cards and unique stamps and gifts! Our cozy atmosphere invites you to sit down and write your greetings from the Arctic Circle to your friends all over the world. The cheerful Postal Elves will post your greetings for you, whether it’s Christmas or the middle of summer! All post will be stamped with the special Arctic Circle postmark. We are a full-service post office, so you can also leave your parcels and other mail with us to be delivered to its destination!

By the way, there’s a secret behind the red post box: all letters dropped here will be held and sent for Christmas!

Make friends and relatives happy by ordering a Santa Claus Letter, which will be sent by Santa Claus himself before Christmas.

We are open every day, all year round!

P.S. Did you know that every year Santa Claus receives around half a million letters to his post office at the Arctic Circle? The letters arrive from children and adults all over the world!

You can visit the magical Santa’s Forest, full of Christmas trees, following a 2 km guided trail from Santa Claus Village (watch HERE Infomap).

Santa’s Forest was established in the early 2000s, and hundreds of spruce trees of varying age grow there. Planting spruces was originally a Japanese idea.

The nature trail at Santa’s Forest begins at the northwestern edge of Santa Claus Village. Please keep in mind that the path is NOT maintained or cleared after snow has fallen.

During the hike, you will walk along a marked nature trail through mires, marshes, backwoods and dry moorland. Parts of the trail have duckboards. Along the path there are four benches and information boards explaining the surrounding nature. In late summer, an astute and lucky passerby can pick blueberries along the way, which are a common delicacy on this nature trail.

The road ends at the gates of Santa’s Forest. After this, you are free to walk along the undulating gravel path through Father Christmas’s forest. There is a sheltered rest area in the middle of the forest.