Premium lakefront villa only 15 min drive from the Rovaniemi airport and Santa Claus Village. We welcome families and groups of traveling friends. Villa is for up to 6 adults and you may choose to stay in a private suite or in one of two bedrooms. From the living area’s panoramic window you can see Northern Lights or the Midnight Sun in the summer.
Enjoy also unforgettable activities!
Our host will take care of you during your stay and he will guide you through the activities and excursions we offer at additional cost: minivan transfer, day trips, sauna, ice swim, ice fishing, free of charge SUP-boarding etc. We have a vacation planner for you and we are ready to invest in you so that you’ll get treasures to keep, unforgettable memories to take back home with you.
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Located 15km north from Rovaniemi’s city-center and 19 km from Santa Claus Village, by the side of the Ounasjoki River, Nova Galaxy Village is a resort of unique Scandinavian style Aurora huts.
Activities such as husky safaris and snowmobile tours are available almost every day, and only to the guests of Nova Galaxy and Nova Skyland.
The village has only 10 Aurora huts for a more private setting, a reception building, its own restaurant for guests and other facilities for the safari activities.
Each accommodation can host up to 2 people and has a panoramic window from which you can enjoy beautiful views of the surrounding nature. Each Aurora hut also has a private sauna building with floor-to-ceiling windows. Nova Galaxy Village is a peaceful and secluded place where you can enjoy the beautiful nature of Lapland and get a chance to see the breathtaking aurora borealis, for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Porovaara Hill is a private and peaceful place, 20 min drive from Santa Claus Village, where you can feel and experience pure nature in many different ways. One option is to drive by silent electric snowmobile to the deep forest surrounded by the peaceful nature and wild animals. After the ride, head to the reindeer fences of our reindeer farm to feed the animals and learn about herding with your guide. You can also spend your night in the forest in sleeping bags made of reindeer hides and experience authentic Lapland while staying in Laavu under the Northern Lights and the starry sky, with reindeer. Book on line our activities: https://porovaara.fi/book/
Experience the electric snowmobile safari of your life!
Welcome to ride in the pure Lappish nature with magical arctic horses! In our cozy stable, you’ll have the opportunity to meet our friendly horses, dogs, and sheep. We offer a variety of horse-related activities, including trail riding, sleigh rides in the winter, and we also breed Finnish horses. You are also welcome to join our traditional sauna ceremony or experience the tranquility of nature by staying in our glampings.
During your visit, we’ll share fascinating insights into the lives and histories of these magnificent animals. Our location is 30-minutes driving from Santa Claus Village. Sometimes you can meet our horses also in Santa Claus Village!
See one the biggest SnowHotels in the World – Arctic SnowHotel & Glass Igloos in Lehtojärvi Rovaniemi offers unforgettable visiting programmes. The attraction is located some 30 km (25 min drive) from Santa Claus Village at the Arctic Circle. We also offer transfers from Rovaniemi city centre or Santa Claus Village, entrance ticket to the SnowHotel and a guided tour.
During the tour you get a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit all the rooms of the SnowHotel, Ice Restaurant, Ice Chapel and Ice Bar. If you wish, you can have a drink at the Ice Bar during the tour.
On top of visiting the SnowHotel, you can book a programme including for example dinner, Aurora hunting or a unique Sauna experience with Snow Sauna. www./arcticsnowhotel.fi/
Our local bus Santa Claus Bus will take you to the center of Rovaniemi, Santa Claus Village and to the Rovaniemi Airport. Bus timetables for Santa Claus bus you can find from here: www.santaclausbus.fi/en and www.airportbus.fi/en
Our company also operates buses to Ranua Zoo and Pello.
A cozy Christmas themed cottage fox six! Santa’s Cottage is a cozy accommodation option in a beautiful and peaceful location in Sonka village, 30 km away from the Rovaniemi city center and around 37 km from Santa Claus Village.
Santa’s Cottage includes one bedroom with a double bed, well equipped kitchen, a living room with a convertible sofa for two, a loft with beds for two persons, sauna, washing room and a separate dressing room. The fire place in the living room holds a baking oven, and there’s also a cozy and roomy veranda in front of the cottage with a lake view.
The Sukularakka giant’s kettles are located about 30 km south of Santa Claus Village. There are 14 giant’s kettles on the slopes of Sukulanrakka, three of which are incredibly deep and are among the largest in all of Finland. The biggest kettle is located at the foot of Sukulanrakka. It is partially broken, 8m wide and 15m deep. The other two are atop Sukulanrakka, with depths of 9m and 10m. In winter, when the ground is frozen, the site is very difficult to access and visiting the kettles is not recommended.
Giant’s kettles were created approx. 10,000 years ago at edge zones of melting continental ice, as a result of strong meltwater streams. In the meltwater tunnels at the bottoms of glaciers, strongly flowing water carried boulders and stones along, creating the kettles.
The nature of the Arctic Circle Hiking Area is enchanting, just beyond Santa Claus Village. The distance from Santa Claus Village to the hiking area is only 15 km. The stunning rapids of Raudanjoki river, and the Vaattunkiköngäs and Vikaköngäs waterfalls, which run through the area, are just a few steps away. The accessible routes also invite those traveling with prams to enjoy a day outdoors among the rapids surrounded by forest. You can usually walk the trails even in winter. In winter, hikers can also travel via skis or snowshoes to the area’s extensive aapa marshes.
Suitability: well-suited for a day trip for the whole family. Accessible routes.
Auttiköngäs is one of Finland’s most spectacular waterfalls, and the destination offers the peace of a taiga forest. Auttiköngäs’s wonderful day trip destination is about an hour’s drive from Santa Claus Village.
Even the drive along the beautiful Kemijoki river tributary towards Auttiköngäs is an experience. The nature trail that goes to Auttiköngäs takes you over one of Finland’s finest waterfalls. The trail leads you to the peace of northern primeval forests and to an observation tower high on the rock, to look deep into the green of old-growth forests. Auttiköngäs is a great excursion destination, no matter the season. In winter, you can visit Auttiköngäs, for example, on snowshoes.