Holidays in Lapland

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I've had a google but it's quite difficult compared to booking your standard holiday.

We have 2 sons, one 7 and the other 4 months. We've always said we'd love to goto Lapland for Christmas with them, do 7 nights from the 21st/22nd of December. It's always been something we've put off, typically due to our summer holiday being our main focus. Decided we will start to set aside money for it now for Christmas 2017. That way we can do both our summer and Christmas holiday that year.

Anyone here have any experience or gone there before? Trying to get a rough idea on cost / area and whether it's actually do-able for what we want.

We'd want a log cabin kind of experience... When we go on holiday to say Spain we always book a large detached Villa with private pool from the likes of Ownersdirect, typically spend around £3000 on the villa for 2 weeks and flights / transportation / food is separate.. We're not fans of hotel / all inclusive package holidays.

They'll be 6 of us... Me, Wife, the 2 kids (8 and 1 by then) and my 2 parents. In my mind I'm thinking £6000-£7000 for accommodation (High quality cabin, ya stereotypical winter wonderland log fire type place with a jacuzzi) and flights and if we can't get what we want for roughly that, we'd likely abandon the idea.

Thanks all!
 
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It sounds like allot... But it really isn't.

I know allot go on these £300-£400 PP holidays all inclusive in summer in big complexs but if you take our holiday to Spain in summer holidays... The Villa was around £2500 for 2 weeks, flights were £900 for the 3 of us (didn't have second son then). Hire car was £600. Throw on top around £1200 on spending money.. That's 5K for a standard summer holiday for a family of 3 and I wouldn't call that extravagant.
 
Have you been? Pretty sure several areas are geared towards the season tourists at Christmas... At least that's my impression from I've heard others years ago talk about it.

A quick google search for christmas in Lapland throws up several images of charming places that have been quite deliberately christmasified for tourists.

I'd love to stay in one of these:

 
A quick google search for christmas in Lapland throws up several images of charming places that have been quite deliberately christmasified for tourists.

I'd love to stay in one of these:


Yeah I saw those, they're great but more overnight places for northern lights than something you go for 7 nights with 6. Especially as we'll want to be close or walking distance of a decent village.
 
[FnG]magnolia;30300786 said:
For 6 people at the most expensive time of the year? Surprised it isn't more.

Yeah fair play, my girlfriends been on at me for months to get a holiday booked and im balking at spending a grand, but then I am a cheap ass. :D
 
Yeah fair play, my girlfriends been on at me for months to get a holiday booked and im balking at spending a grand, but then I am a cheap ass. :D

Wait till you have kids and you're forced to go on holiday in line with term times... It's astronomical how much accommodation and flights costs increase.
 
Given the expense and effort wouldn't it make more sense to put this off till your youngest can actually appreciate it?

By that point my eldest will be too old, the whole Santa thing is starting to show signs of losing its appeal and he's 7. We may look at Christmas 2018 rather than 2017 but we don't want to wait much longer than that.
 
Why make it about santa for the oldest then and just go for an epic holiday? He will also be old Enough to understand that your youngest still believes in the christmas sky pixie :)
 
My brother in law took his wife and kids few years ago 5 or 6 nights £5k they said they loved it but didn't seem to be able to explain what was so good other than they got to ride snow machines from looking at the pics i think we made the right choice with a Disney world holiday instead
 
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