Apartments in the heart of Rovaniemi
Santa’s Holiday Homes offers rental apartments with the best location in Rovaniemi city centre. We are located just 50-meters from Lordi’s Square with a 24/7 grocery store just outside. Our collection includes studio apartments, one bedroom apartments and two bedroom apartments. Studios are ideal for two adults or small families, two and three room apartments are the best option for families and larger groups. All of our apartments are fully furnished and they have a cozy warm atmosphere. They also include a kitchen, living area and a private bathroom with a shower.
Santa’s Holiday Homes also offers safari experiences for example northern lights tours in Rovaniemi area through our partner company Visit Lapland Tours.
Korundi House of Culture is a space for art and events near the Rovaniemi city centre, and only 8 km from Santa Claus Village. Korundi is home for Rovaniemi Art Museum and the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, offering a unique perspective of the creativity and culture in the North.
Korundi is architecturally a unique building in Lapland; a mail truck depot that survived the Second World War and now conveys its message through art. Changing exhibitions and unique concerts always provide something new to experience.
Korundi not only nourishes the mind but also the body: Korundi Kitchen & Café is a refreshing and popular lunch café and a captivating meeting place. Also, vegans and vegetarians favorite spot in town. Korundi Shop offers a charming selection of northern design products. The high-quality local products make unique gifts and souvenirs.
Staying in Lapland for more than two days? The Culture Pass is your ticket to adventure at Korundi House of Culture, Arktikum and Science Centre Pilke in Rovaniemi. The Culture Pass is valid for 7 days, and you can visit the 3 sights as many times as you want.
For more information, opening hours and tickets: https://korundi.fi/en
Arktikum is a museum and science centre and one of the must sees in Rovaniemi. Arktikum, located close to Rovaniemi’s city-center and 8 km from Santa Claus Village, lets you experience northern nature, culture, and history up close. Housing the University of Lapland’s Arctic Centre and the Regional Museum of Lapland, we provide a deeper understanding of the Arctic. Also, Arktikum is a place where the mystery of the northern lights is revealed with interesting facts and stories.
Alongside the exhibition visit, we recommend visiting the Arktikum Café and shop. You’ll get to savour the colourful northern harvest in our lunch buffet and soak in arctic design on your coffee break. Arktikum Shop offers high quality and most authentic gifts and souvenirs.
Staying in Lapland for more than two days? The Culture Pass is your ticket to adventure at Arktikum, Korundi House of Culture and Science Centre Pilke in Rovaniemi. The Culture Pass is valid for 7 days, and you can visit the 3 sights as many times as you want.
For more information, opening hours and tickets: www.arktikum.fi/en
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!
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.
Premium quality, personalised service, small to medium size groups and wide selection of unique safaris:
Snowmobile safaris
Husky tours
Reindeer tours
Northern Lights tours
Nature tours
In Santa Claus Village at the Arctic Circle, you’ll find the welcoming Santa’s Pets (in Finnish: Tallitontun piha). Visit and feed our kindly reindeer and meet fluffy alpacas, pony, goats, sheep, rabbits, donkeys and different birds or enjoy winter fun by coasting down the little hill on site! Guests can also use our Lapland hut (kota) & campfire / barbecue.
As an extra service, Santa’s Pets also offers nice reindeer walks and alpaca walks in the forests of Santa Claus Village and pony riding with our lovely pony. These activities must be booked in advance from our online shop. More info and bookings on our website: https://santaspets.fi/
Sarvesta Saparoon Ky produces authentic Lappish handicrafts and souvenirs. We also offer meat products made from the highest quality raw materials.
You can find Sarvesta Saparoon Ky’s Lappish souvenirs at our shop called “Poronpulkka ja Santa’s Gifts and Delicacies” in Santa’s Gift House (Santa’s Gift Shop), located in Santa Claus Village.
Our shops offer local specialties made from reindeer, berries, and herbs, handmade pottery, and wonderful reindeer-based products.
Passion for fast food
Santa’s Pizza & Burger is a traditional fast food restaurant at the Arctic Circle (Santa Claus Village, Rovaniemi). Our menu consists of delicious pizzas and hamburgers made with our own special recipe. For dessert we serve vodka ice-cream for adults and regular ice-cream for children. You can also buy alcohol beverages for take away from us.
PizzaBuffet is available in lunch time. View exact opening hours from our website.
We also a drive-in.
Come and enjoy!