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“enchanting but the extreme cold can spoil your fun”

written by mnjkgh on 09/12/2013

My daughter is scared stiff of father Christmas, but I decided to book a day trip as a day in memory history. Lapland was magical, winter wonderland. We travelled with Lapland Holidays, operator Transun Travel 8/12/2013. It was a well organised and seamless travel arrangement, no delays and friendly and helpful staff.

In my opinion, you can do it all in a day, which was what was recommended to myself by a friend who has done both a three and one day trip. Good spot on advice. Lovely experience and value for money considering the length of time in the air, 7 hours in total.

Plenty of time to do anything but do be aware of the Arctic weather, Minus 38 degrees is not funny and also not pleasant. In my opinion if I could have booked the weather to be minus 1 to minus 5 We would have had a better experience. This is not a criticism of the holiday just a basic fact about human nature and the elements of the weather, freezing is an understatement and a quote below from my seven year old.

I am glad that I am not an elf because I don't like it here it is to cold and why does Santa live in such a cold place. We have returned safely had an experience, but I saw a lot of tears from shear frozen children in pain. Having skied I know how cold it can get but this was quite off the scale.

I would recommend it but be prepared to feel extremely and painfully cold in your fingers, toes and face.

But well done to the travel organisers as they did a great job.