Winter holiday

Amp34

Amp34

Amp34

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Instead of going purely skiing this winter I was wondering about doing something a little different. Finland was in one of the brochures we picked up and skidooing, dog sledding and snow shoeing (as well as the borealis) sounds right up my street for a little different (along with a few days skiing). Anyone done the above? Any recommendations on skiing/winter holidays in Finland?
 
That's exactly what I was going to suggest when I read the thread title.

If you fancy it then you could spend one night in an ice hotel, just for the experience.

Would love to do that kind of trip one day.
 
Ice hotel sounds nice although I'm guessing that will be expensive!

I take it no one has been on one then? I would appreciate any help on resorts/locations or places in other countries up north that do it as well.

How expensive is Finland BTW, I'm guessing very?
 
What about Sweden and Norway? They must have places that do all this and someone must have been on one? Or do you all go to Magaluf?:(
 
I'm going to Yllas (lapland) on the 4th of December to see father Christmas :) I just hope it starts snowing before then.
 
In many of the alpine resorts you can do a lot apart from skiing. Snow-shoeing, sledging (proper alpine style a bit like a bobsleigh track down 1500M slopes, not UK style in a muddy field), ice-skating, some places do sleigh rides and husky rides but you need t o look carefully, parapente, wellness type places with spas/baths. Often you can go hiking in the valleys and do other normal tourist stuff like christmas markets.

Otherwise you with more money and time you could fly to SFO and have a week skiing at Tahoe and then spend a week at Hawaii, plus visit SanFran, go surffing at half-moon bay, snow-shoe in Yosemite NP.
 
Moses said:
5.50€ for less than a pint, lol :'(. How expensive, for what?

I'm going up to Inari at the end of the month (30th November - 6th of December, I think).
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Food...;)


Norway is stupidly expensive, I assume it's the same with Finland, so a sandwich will be something like £15?
 
D.P. said:
In many of the alpine resorts you can do a lot apart from skiing. Snow-shoeing, sledging (proper alpine style a bit like a bobsleigh track down 1500M slopes, not UK style in a muddy field), ice-skating, some places do sleigh rides and husky rides but you need t o look carefully, parapente, wellness type places with spas/baths. Often you can go hiking in the valleys and do other normal tourist stuff like christmas markets.

Otherwise you with more money and time you could fly to SFO and have a week skiing at Tahoe and then spend a week at Hawaii, plus visit SanFran, go surffing at half-moon bay, snow-shoe in Yosemite NP.
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I've done a bit of skidooing and sledding on ski trips in the past, Austria especially is very good for it, however we feel we want to go somewhere other than the alps this year. :)

The latter sounds brilliant, however rather over my budget at the moment!
 
Scotland? Very similar latitude to Scandinavia and can do everything mentioned in the original post except for maybe skidooing. It's pretty cheap too.
 
I read the title and though Scandinavia, guess we're on the same wave length :) I might be right in thinking you might even get a chance to see Northern Lights at xmas?

kd
 
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