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The Northern Lights Aurora Borealis Abisko Break
HIGHLIGHTS: 4 Night break including 2 nights in Abisko, the Northern Lights Capital of the world, a night at the Aurora sky station, train trip to the Norwegian Fjords, snowmobile and husky adventures and visit to the world famous Ice Hotel.
Weekend a la Carte pioneered Northern Lights viewing at Abisko, widely regarded as one of the best places on earth for consistent sightings of the Northern Lights. We offer a very personal experience with carefully selected guides, allowing you to truly enjoy the landscapes and the spectacle.
We have been overwhelmed by client reviews of this destination and last season we had 4 out of 5 clients witness the northern lights during peak season!
THIS BREAK IS SELLING FAST SO BOOK EARLY FOR 2012/13 TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT
Please click on the arrow on the photo below to see the experiences and meet the team who will be looking after you
Beneath The Aurora
DAY 1
Fly to Kiruna. Northern Lights Sami Evening
On arrival in Kiruna a guide will meet and transfer you to your hotel, The Arctic Eden, where you will be kitted out in your complimentary Arctic Clothing.
This evening Hakan, your Sami guide, will take you onto his land for an encounter with his reindeer. After feeding them you will learn about Sami life, before taking an outing into the wilderness on a Snowmobile Sled.
Journey through the dark forest and glide over the frozen river in pursuit of the aurora borealis. At the end gather around the fire in the Sami Tepee (lavvu) to enjoy hot drinks and snack dinner. Hakan will share his many stories with regard to Sami mythology and history.
Late evening drop back at the Arctic Eden Hotel.
Meals included: Dinner
This evening Hakan, your Sami guide, will take you onto his land for an encounter with his reindeer. After feeding them you will learn about Sami life, before taking an outing into the wilderness on a Snowmobile Sled.
Journey through the dark forest and glide over the frozen river in pursuit of the aurora borealis. At the end gather around the fire in the Sami Tepee (lavvu) to enjoy hot drinks and snack dinner. Hakan will share his many stories with regard to Sami mythology and history.
Late evening drop back at the Arctic Eden Hotel.
Meals included: Dinner
DAY 2
Day Snowmobile Tour and Ice Hotel Visit
After breakfast your guide will meet and transfer you to a spectacular valley near Kiruna for your snowmobile adventure. You will enjoy a day of exploration in the arctic wilderness. The terrain includes frozen rivers and lake systems of the region with remarkable views before you.
You will cover about 40 kilometres in your day, which will also include lunch back at Máttaráhkká Sami Lodge. The valley is home to some wildlife so you could bump into the occasional Reindeer!
Mikko will then drop you down at the world famous Ice Hotel where you can spend a couple of hours touring the hotel, marvelling at the Art Suites, having a drink in the Absolut IceBar or doing some shopping.
At around 6pm transfer back to Hotel Arctic Eden where you have an evening at leisure and dinner included at the Arctic Thai restaurant adjacent to the hotel.
Alternatively, if you want to do something a bit special tonight then we can suggest the dinner and Northern Lights hot tub evening at Mattarahkka Sami Lodge, or an evening at Hotel Arctic Eden, where you can indulge your taste buds with the Romantic "Best of Local Foods" menu. For more information on both options, please see A La Carte Optional Extras below.
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
You will cover about 40 kilometres in your day, which will also include lunch back at Máttaráhkká Sami Lodge. The valley is home to some wildlife so you could bump into the occasional Reindeer!
Mikko will then drop you down at the world famous Ice Hotel where you can spend a couple of hours touring the hotel, marvelling at the Art Suites, having a drink in the Absolut IceBar or doing some shopping.
At around 6pm transfer back to Hotel Arctic Eden where you have an evening at leisure and dinner included at the Arctic Thai restaurant adjacent to the hotel.
Alternatively, if you want to do something a bit special tonight then we can suggest the dinner and Northern Lights hot tub evening at Mattarahkka Sami Lodge, or an evening at Hotel Arctic Eden, where you can indulge your taste buds with the Romantic "Best of Local Foods" menu. For more information on both options, please see A La Carte Optional Extras below.
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
DAY 3
Day Wilderness Sled Dog Adventure. Abisko Northern Lights
After breakfast your guide will pick you up for your 4 hour experience in the wilderness driving a husky sled dog team. With one team between two people you can take turns driving!
Glide over frozen lakes and through woods enjoying the beautiful snowy landscapes around you. Stop for a wilderness lunch before a return journey back to Kiruna.
Early evening transfer by bus to Abisko, the Northern Lights Capital of Europe. Check in at Abisko Mountain Lodge, where you will enjoy a delicious 3 course dinner (or at the Aurora Sky Station for a small supplement) prior to taking the chairlift up Mount Nuolja to the Aurora Sky Station, which offers visitors a panoramic view over Lapporten, the Abisko Alps and Tornetrask.
To understand just why Abisko is the best place for seeing the Northern Lights you may find the content on the link to the Abisko sky station web site of interest.
During the winter nights this is, dependent on weather conditions, one of the best places on earth for consistent sightings of the Northern Lights .
Please click on the second photo for a video of the aurora borealis.
Return to Abisko Mountain Lodge late in the evening and overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Glide over frozen lakes and through woods enjoying the beautiful snowy landscapes around you. Stop for a wilderness lunch before a return journey back to Kiruna.
Early evening transfer by bus to Abisko, the Northern Lights Capital of Europe. Check in at Abisko Mountain Lodge, where you will enjoy a delicious 3 course dinner (or at the Aurora Sky Station for a small supplement) prior to taking the chairlift up Mount Nuolja to the Aurora Sky Station, which offers visitors a panoramic view over Lapporten, the Abisko Alps and Tornetrask.
To understand just why Abisko is the best place for seeing the Northern Lights you may find the content on the link to the Abisko sky station web site of interest.
During the winter nights this is, dependent on weather conditions, one of the best places on earth for consistent sightings of the Northern Lights .
Please click on the second photo for a video of the aurora borealis.
Return to Abisko Mountain Lodge late in the evening and overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
DAY 4
Train Trip to Norwegian Fjords.
Train adventure down to Narvik on the Norwegian coast. The journey, entirely north of the Arctic Circle, takes you along a fantastic landscape of mountains and fjords separating Sweden from Norway. The scenery is breathtaking.
On arrival you have a couple of hours to have lunch and enjoy the small coastal town of Narvik with its interesting naval history before returning to Abisko by train.
The train trip is best done after the 01 Feb. For clients travelling before 01 February this day can be used for one of the optional activities listed below. Ice fishing and Ice Climbing are all highly recommended. These activities carry a supplementary cost.
Enjoy dinner in Abisko Mountain Lodge and an evening at leisure.
Alternatively, spend the evening doing one of the a la Carte activities listed below. We would particularly recommend the Photography evening. More details below.
Overnight at Abisko Mountain Lodge
Meals included: Breakfast and dinner
On arrival you have a couple of hours to have lunch and enjoy the small coastal town of Narvik with its interesting naval history before returning to Abisko by train.
The train trip is best done after the 01 Feb. For clients travelling before 01 February this day can be used for one of the optional activities listed below. Ice fishing and Ice Climbing are all highly recommended. These activities carry a supplementary cost.
Enjoy dinner in Abisko Mountain Lodge and an evening at leisure.
Alternatively, spend the evening doing one of the a la Carte activities listed below. We would particularly recommend the Photography evening. More details below.
Overnight at Abisko Mountain Lodge
Meals included: Breakfast and dinner
DAY 5
Breakfast and Transfer for Flight Home.
Breakfast at hotel prior to to direct transfer to the airport for your flight home after your Northern Lights Break
Meals included: Breakfast
Weekend a la Carte offer a wide range of tailor made Northern Lights Holidays. Please contact us to discuss your particular requirements.
Meals included: Breakfast
Weekend a la Carte offer a wide range of tailor made Northern Lights Holidays. Please contact us to discuss your particular requirements.
Make an enquiry
Call 01722 744695
Price per person: From £1,595
Includes : Flights, 4 nights Accommodation with breakfast, 4 dinners and 2 lunches, Ice Hotel Visit, Sami Northern Lights Experience, day Sled dog and snowmobile Safaris, Abisko sky station visit, Train tickets to Narvik, Loan of Arctic Clothing & Transfers.
Departures from: Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester
Break Available: 12 January 2013 - 26 March 2013
Departures from: Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester
Break Available: 12 January 2013 - 26 March 2013
A La Carte Optional Extras
Dinner, Hot Tub and Northern Lights
Night in Art Suite at World Famous Ice Hotel
Upgrade to a Suite at Hotel Arctic Eden
Best of Local Menu Upgrade
Romantic Arrival Room Package
Upgrade To Máttárahkká Northern Lights Lodge
Northern Lights Photography Evening
Northern Lights Snow Shoe Walk
Ice Fishing
Ice Climbing
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Dinner, Hot Tub and Northern Lights
A wonderfully relaxing evening hopefully seeing the Northern Lights at Mattarahkka Sami Lodge. Enjoy an excellent 3-course Lappish dinner prior to spending time in the roof-top hot tub from where you can relax and enjoy the star filled night sky and with a little luck even see the Northern Lights dancing above you.
Although the temperature outside is below zero, you will be really warm in the hot tub. If the 35-40 degree celcius water isn´t enough enjoy a warm sauna in the special relaxation zone.
Please note each couple gets a 1 hour time slot for the hot tub.
Price per person: £95 includes transfer, dinner, sauna, hot tub
Although the temperature outside is below zero, you will be really warm in the hot tub. If the 35-40 degree celcius water isn´t enough enjoy a warm sauna in the special relaxation zone.
Please note each couple gets a 1 hour time slot for the hot tub.
Price per person: £95 includes transfer, dinner, sauna, hot tub
Night in Art Suite at World Famous Ice Hotel
The Ice Hotel in Swedish Lapland ranks as one of the most unusual and inspiring places to stay.
Now in its 22nd edition, each year the hotel is unique. As the temperature in Jukkasjärvi drops below zero Ice Artists descend from all over the world to build this magnificent creation. Using only frozen water from the Torne River, their art is created with imagination and hard work, only to melt away under the unforgiving rays of the sun come springtime. All that remains are your impressions, memories and photograph.
Price per person: From £195 for Art Suite
Now in its 22nd edition, each year the hotel is unique. As the temperature in Jukkasjärvi drops below zero Ice Artists descend from all over the world to build this magnificent creation. Using only frozen water from the Torne River, their art is created with imagination and hard work, only to melt away under the unforgiving rays of the sun come springtime. All that remains are your impressions, memories and photograph.
Price per person: From £195 for Art Suite
Upgrade to a Suite at Hotel Arctic Eden
The suites are something out of the ordinary. All the rooms have LCD TV, DVD-player and a home-cinema system. Wireless Internet works in all of the rooms.
The fully tiled bathrooms are equipped with floor-heating, whirlpool baths, massage showers with inbuilt music systems and personal saunas make these some of the best we have seen anywhere in Lapland.
Every guest has their own comfortable bathrobe with slippers to match. When you arrive, fresh fruits and mineral water is waiting for you in the room.
Price Per Person: £50 per night
The fully tiled bathrooms are equipped with floor-heating, whirlpool baths, massage showers with inbuilt music systems and personal saunas make these some of the best we have seen anywhere in Lapland.
Every guest has their own comfortable bathrobe with slippers to match. When you arrive, fresh fruits and mineral water is waiting for you in the room.
Price Per Person: £50 per night
Best of Local Menu Upgrade
Enjoy a selection of the best Swedish Lapland produce. The core ingredients are Reindeer, Arctic Char and the wonderful Cloudberry.Please note there are vegetarian/vegan options available upon request.
Please note alcohol is not included but you will be offered a wine package where you can have the Sommelier choose a glass of wine to go with each course.
Price Per Person: £38
Please note alcohol is not included but you will be offered a wine package where you can have the Sommelier choose a glass of wine to go with each course.
Price Per Person: £38
Romantic Arrival Room Package
What better way to get settled into your room at Hotel Arctic Eden, than with a welcome food parcel? This includes fresh fruit, Swedish cheese and a bottle of the Loire valley sparkling wine,Louis de Grenelle Brut.
Price Per Person: £35
Price Per Person: £35
Upgrade To Máttárahkká Northern Lights Lodge
Weekend a la Carte offer this wonderful small lodge exclusively to its clients. Based near Kiruna it is the perfect base for couples or small groups to experience the best of Lapland.
This quiet, warm and inspiring environment used to be a Sami handicraft centre until the owners had the idea to turn into a private retreat. With only 5 bedrooms open plan lounge and dining area with log fire, sauna and northern lights hot tub this is really a place to come and unwind.
One of the beauties of the location is that you can snowmobile out from your front door into the arctic wilderness and the sled dog kennel is less than a kilometre away. Evenings are focused on good food, relaxation and the Northern Lights.
Price per person: £100 for 2 nights
This quiet, warm and inspiring environment used to be a Sami handicraft centre until the owners had the idea to turn into a private retreat. With only 5 bedrooms open plan lounge and dining area with log fire, sauna and northern lights hot tub this is really a place to come and unwind.
One of the beauties of the location is that you can snowmobile out from your front door into the arctic wilderness and the sled dog kennel is less than a kilometre away. Evenings are focused on good food, relaxation and the Northern Lights.
Price per person: £100 for 2 nights
Northern Lights Photography Evening
Join “Lights Over Lapland” photographer Chad Blakley for an opportunity to see and photograph the aurora borealis in the wilderness of Abisko National Park. Due to clear skies and virtually no light pollution, Abisko is one of the greatest places in the world to see the Northern Lights. Chad will provide you with a high quality camera & lens and teach you the skills that you will need to find and photograph the magical aurora borealis. Even if you have never used a camera before you have an extremely high chance of going home with some beautiful aurora photographs and memories that will last a lifetime! Small groups ensure a very personal and genuine experience.
Please click on the tenth photo on the right for a glimpse of this activity.
Price Per Person: £110 includes Camera, tripod, warm drinks, guiding services, 3-4 hours searching for and photographing the aurora in Abisko National Park
AVAILABLE DATES: JAN 2,13,26 FEB 2,10,16, 23 MAR 03
Please click on the tenth photo on the right for a glimpse of this activity.
Price Per Person: £110 includes Camera, tripod, warm drinks, guiding services, 3-4 hours searching for and photographing the aurora in Abisko National Park
AVAILABLE DATES: JAN 2,13,26 FEB 2,10,16, 23 MAR 03
Northern Lights Snow Shoe Walk
Enjoy a 2 hour wilderness snow shoe walk in search of the Northern Lights.
Price Per Person: £50 includes guide, dinner and snow shoes
Price Per Person: £50 includes guide, dinner and snow shoes
Ice Fishing
The Lapland Ice Fishing Championship is often held on the Tornetrask lake and this provides a wonderful location for anyone to try their hand during the season. Surrounded by mountains and beautiful vista nothing could be better.
Price per person: From £80
Price per person: From £80
Ice Climbing
Dick Johannson is one of the best mountain guides and under his team's instruction a half day spent ice climbing is quite an exceptional experience. Develop your skills on a frozen waterfall – something that gives you a real adrenalin rush.
Price per person: From £100
Price per person: From £100
A La Carte Extensions
Stockholm Highlights 2 Day Extension
See Scandinavia's capital city! 2 nights at the ABBA Rival hotel with private airport transfers.
Stockholm is now one of the 'in' cities in the world. Recently in vogue due to its setting in the book 'Girl with the Dragon Tatoo' it has high culture, high cuisine and the Vasa!
Your break includes private driver transfers to and from Stockholm airport and 2 nights bed and breakfast at the ABBA Rival hotel owned by Benny Anderson. This fun hotel is centrally located and a short hop to all the major key sites.
The old town in Stockholm is very picturesque and compact and can be done in a full day. Also in December Stockholm has many Christmas markets so a break can allow you to do some shopping and get into the Christmas spirit.
Click here for full details of our Stockholm and northern lights break
Your break includes private driver transfers to and from Stockholm airport and 2 nights bed and breakfast at the ABBA Rival hotel owned by Benny Anderson. This fun hotel is centrally located and a short hop to all the major key sites.
The old town in Stockholm is very picturesque and compact and can be done in a full day. Also in December Stockholm has many Christmas markets so a break can allow you to do some shopping and get into the Christmas spirit.
Click here for full details of our Stockholm and northern lights break
£225 PER PERSON
2 nights in standard double room - bed and breakfast, private airport transfers
3 Day Wilderness Husky Safari
HIGHLIGHTS: 3 night wilderness adventure driving your own sled dog team from one remote location to another. Pristine wilderness, cosy cabins and great friendships are guaranteed.
DAY 1
Transfer to Kangos where you will enjoy a homemade dinner and spend the evening in the timber lodge preparing for your husky adventure in the arctic. There is also a sauna and hot tub for relaxation.
DAY 2 - DAY 4
Before setting off have a comprehensive brief. Everyone will be driving their own 4 dog team and each day will be 5-6 hours sledding.
Enjoy 3 days of being in the wilderness experiencing the silence of the Arctic. Lunch will be served along the route and before nightfall you will arrive at your log cabins.The day ends in a warm cabin with a wholesome home cooked meal.
On Day 4 enjoy your last wilderness lunch gathered around an open fire prior to returning to basecamp after a journey of 150 kilometres north of the Arctic circle.
Spend the night at Pine Tree Lodge with a home cooked meal and sauna and over a few drinks to recount the tales of the last few days.
DAY 5
Transfer to Kiruna airport for flight home
Transfer to Kangos where you will enjoy a homemade dinner and spend the evening in the timber lodge preparing for your husky adventure in the arctic. There is also a sauna and hot tub for relaxation.
DAY 2 - DAY 4
Before setting off have a comprehensive brief. Everyone will be driving their own 4 dog team and each day will be 5-6 hours sledding.
Enjoy 3 days of being in the wilderness experiencing the silence of the Arctic. Lunch will be served along the route and before nightfall you will arrive at your log cabins.The day ends in a warm cabin with a wholesome home cooked meal.
On Day 4 enjoy your last wilderness lunch gathered around an open fire prior to returning to basecamp after a journey of 150 kilometres north of the Arctic circle.
Spend the night at Pine Tree Lodge with a home cooked meal and sauna and over a few drinks to recount the tales of the last few days.
DAY 5
Transfer to Kiruna airport for flight home
£795 PER PERSON
4 Nights accommodation, all meals, guides, transfers
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