Aurora hunting
By snowmobile, heated sleigh, snowshoe or on foot with a guide — or simply from bed, under a glass roof. Sightings are a natural phenomenon and are never guaranteed; we won’t pretend otherwise.
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Winter in Finnish Lapland
Glass roofs, aurora cabins and sled-dog days across four contracted properties — every one of them personally stayed in.
Lapland, the way we sell it
Four properties, not a destination list
- Three direct contracts and one specialist partner. Kakslauttanen, Northern Lights Village and Ranua Resort are contracted directly. Santa Claus Holiday Village is booked through our Lapland DMC, Rovaniemi Insider — a relationship, not a contract, and we say so.
- Aurora season, as the properties state it. Kakslauttanen publishes late August to late April; Ranua publishes September to April. Northern Lights Village and Santa Claus Holiday Village don’t publish a window, so we won’t invent one for them — ask, and we’ll talk through realistic expectations honestly.
- No booking engine, no price grid. Tell Rahul who’s coming and roughly when; he comes back personally with a route and a shortlist.
The four properties
Where we send you in Finnish Lapland
Saariselkä
Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort
The original glass-igloo resort, and still the benchmark: every cabin and igloo has its own private sauna, and every stay carries half board and at least one activity a night.
- Honeymoon
- Luxury
- Family
Saariselkä · Levi · Pyhä · Ivalo
Northern Lights Village
One property, four Lapland villages. A laser-heated glass roof sits directly over the bed in every category — boutique and couples-first, not a big activity village.
- Honeymoon
- Luxury
- Wellness & spa
Ranua
Ranua Resort
Two genuinely different products under one roof: glass igloos on a silent lakeshore for couples, and two-storey holiday villas beside the resort’s own arctic wildlife park for families.
- Family
- Honeymoon
- Wellness & spa
Rovaniemi · 66°33′ N
Santa Claus Holiday Village
171 apartment-style cottages and suites inside Santa Claus Village itself, each with a private sauna. The most-requested Lapland moment — meeting Santa — is a short walk, not a day trip.
- Family
- Value
- First-timers
Rahul has personally stayed in all four. The shortlist you get back is first-hand — including which of them isn’t the right fit for your trip.
Sample itineraries
Packages the properties actually run
Real, published itineraries from three of the four — a starting point to react to, not a fixed product. Rahul builds the flights, transfers and the nights either side around whichever one you like.
The days between dark skies
What you actually do up there
Husky safari
Shared-sleigh safaris from two hours upward, with an open-fire break in the wilderness. Self-drive sleds and a two-day overnight run are available at some properties.
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Reindeer sleigh & farm
A traditional sleigh ride through winter forest, and a farm visit that works for small children — often the part of the week the youngest ones remember.
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Snowmobile safari
Guided runs across frozen lake and forest trail, including dedicated aurora hunts once it is properly dark.
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A night under glass
A heated room with nothing between you and the sky. All four properties build the idea differently — full dome, partial pane over the bed, or a whole glass-roofed cabin.
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Snowshoe & snow forest
Snowshoe trails and cross-country tracks through frost-locked forest — and the short, low light Lapland gets in the middle of winter.
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Six questions we get asked most
We’re writing these up properly — from the properties’ own material, from Finland’s own meteorological and tourism sources, and from Rahul’s own trips. Until they land, ask him directly; the answer is the same either way.
01
When to go
02
How the aurora works
03
Rovaniemi vs Saariselkä
04
Glass igloo vs cabin
05
What to pack
06
How many nights
Beyond our four
The rest of Scandinavia, by enquiry
Our four contracted properties are all in Finnish Lapland. Norway, Sweden and trips that combine two or three bases are arranged by enquiry — the same planning, just without a shelf to point at.
From the Google reviews
What travellers come home saying
5.0We booked our Northern Lights Village Saariselkä package through Mykish Travels, and everything was perfectly organised. The package included airport transfers, Aurora photography workshop, snowshoe aurora expedition, husky safari, aurora …
I cannot recommend Mykish Travels enough! We just returned from the most incredible two-week trip to Finland, and everything was absolutely perfect. They organised a seamless journey for us, taking us all the way from Rovaniemi to the …
Meet your guide
Meet Rahul
Rahul has stayed at all four of these properties himself — and he answers the enquiries himself too. You’re not planning a Lapland winter with a queue; you’re planning it with the person who has already slept under those glass roofs and knows which one suits who.
Plan it with Rahul
Chasing the lights, or planning a family Lapland Christmas?
Tell us who’s coming and roughly when. Rahul shortlists from the four personally, and says plainly when one of them isn’t the right fit — which is usually the more useful half of the reply.