I Stay At A Holiday Park In Lapland! - Santa Claus Holiday Village, Rovaniemi. 

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A few tips from a local. You can do this a little cheaper by renting an airbnb or a cheaper hotel room from the city. No need to use taxi unless you want to stay at the Santa's village very late. Public transport in Rovaniemi is not the best but during the day busses go from center to Santa's village at least once an hour and cost is about 3-5€ depending on how you pay (cash, bus app or the city bus card). The routes and timetables are online in English. The village itself is free to enter so you can enjoy the atmosphere and see Santa Claus for free if you don't want the video of your experience. Food is a bit cheaper in the city and of course there are grocery stores there. The city is full of walking routes that you can explore for free (we have the freedom to roam law so all forrests are okay to walk in) and if you have your own skies you can ski totally free as much as you want since there are at least couple of hundred kilometers of free ski routes all over the city. Free fire places are also available pretty close to the center and free ice rinks all over if you get skates from somewhere (cheap ones are about 20€ at stores). Also free play grounds for kids are everywhere, biggest is an Angry Birds play ground very close to the center where you can also slide a small hill if there is snow. Excursions are expensive everywhere. I have payed similar prises in Canary Isles and Turkey for trips to local farms, snorkeling or a tour to a local historical or natural site. But the northern lights and stars are free to watch if you go to a less lighted place on a clear night and look towards the North. For example somewhere around Ounasvaara hill area where there are walking routes and a free fire place on top (just don't walk on the ski routes, locals won't thank you for that). There is also an Arctic zoo (reindeers, moose, wolves, lynx, brown bears, polar bears etc.) in Ranua about 80km from the city and a public bus there and back costs about 30€ plus 22€ ticket for the zoo from an adult. There are couple of nice but not totally free museums in the city, a nice little church and a couple of cemeteries that look beautiful with all the candless in the dark around all saints day and Christmas eve and day. Rovaniemi is a pretty normal small city in Finland with a little twist from tourism, being a univercity city, and having the air force base that caused the flight noice, so you can do many other than chrismassy things too, like swim in the river in the summer, do many indoor sports, go to movies, pubs and night clubs etc. Reindeers can sometimes be seen loitering on the streets outside the imidiate city center, so they are not just a touristy thing eather.

When I lived in Alaska (32 miles from the Arctic Circle in Fairbanks) it was -60F. (-51C.) quite often, but once it hits -20F. It doesn't really feel any colder when it goes even lower. Lots of Northern lights too! I suspect you would like it!

These three Northern light videos and Christmas village were so much fun I'll never be able to see it myself so I thank you for giving me the tour!

We visited this place a couple years ago while travelling to the North Cape in Norway, very commercialized indeed but meeting Santa there was a truly magical experience. We speak Dutch and were very surprised that Santa could speak Dutch as well. That felt like true Christmas magic! We were there in summer though, but I'd love to visit during winter time as well, it's looks so beautiful. Unfortunately I don't like the cold 😅

Oh my goodness 😂 I’ve just spotted me at 22:53 with my camera in the background’ I remember seeing you at that hut because I said to dean oh there’s a guy talking to the camera there! Dammit wish I knew I would of said hi! This looks like you had an amazing trip ❤ I wonder if your on any of my footage I’ll be looking out for you now hehe 😂❤

Awwww I am so in love with the Huskies Tim they are adorable bless them. So precious. And I love Finland. Thank you Tim for taking us there with you. ⛄️❄️☃️❄️

1:40 love the sound of crushed snow and ice under foot ✨☘️

Whenever Christmas is around the corner, I always have a habit watching your christmassy videos each year. How festive and joyful! Thanks Tim!

Okay, I really love your videos, but when you freaked out over the dogs, I loved YOU. It’s so sweet to see a grown man freak out over puppies. ❤ I think it’s strange when people don’t love animals. Tim, you won my heart in this video. 😊

Tim, for a second, near Santa, you looked entierly like a little boy, as if not knowing what to say to be correct, admitted by the big man, somehow. Is like for a second, like a shade, a second the child within you came on surface. Lovely. God bless you and your lovely family. From Romania.

Great video, informative, well put together and lots of good content. You’ve inspired us to look for our next trip 🙏

It all looks lovely. I can't believe you WANTED a Starbucks! why on earth would you want to have hot chocolate that you can get on any corner in any town at home when you''ve come all that way to St. Nicholas's place? :) Loved the video .

On my bucket list now. Thank you.

I think this is the best video ever about rovenimi love it ❤❤❤

Can't wait. Living my dream through Tim❤️

thank you Tim wonderful

Merry Christmas Festival season greetings to you Buddy.i liked your video 🎉

Amazing love the colours and the trees 🌲 beautiful 🎄🎄🎄❄️❄️❄️⛄️✈️

We went to Santa's village in summer a few years ago. Especially went into Finland from Sweden when we toured Norway, Sweden and Denmark for 3 months in our motorhome. Absolutely loved it. We went to Elf school and had picture with Santa but managed to take our own picture. Sent loads of Christmas cards from post office which were all posted in time for Christmas all over the world. We parked in the main area for 2 days, for free and had midnight sun. Best experience ever. I think probably better than in winter, but it does look as if it has changed a lot but ot for the better. Thanks for showing it in winter.

Hi everyone I'll catch up later, got granddaughter for sleep over busy tea time

-20oC, sounds like a nice cool summers day in Scotland

Centre Parks but with snow.

enjoyed love to go there thank you for showing

Great video Tim. I really enjoyed seeing everything you did. It looks such a pretty place.

Reindeer hides are pretty common here in northern scandinavia, and has been for a very long time. It's a byproduct of slaughtering them, and the price is actually reasonable. Better than throwing away parts of animal you could use.

As a family was looking to go to Lapland over the years, after seeing this glad we never did, too expensive and commercial.

Amazing I wish I’d of been there looks so magical xx

This is so beautiful 💯🤍🥂

Good afternoon Tim from Kent

Looks nice, they done a great job. I would done it little bit different though.

Very informative video,! Great work …such a beautiful place❤

A very interesting tour. Reindeer soup, by the way, is possibly the best soup I've ever had. A rich, strong flavour, similar perhaps to Oxtail soup. You missed something special.

Brilliant video Tim, what I'd give to pay a visit to Santa's village 🎅

You forgot your lovely warm scarf!

Too cold for me, what surprised me most was that the shops floors weren’t all covered in slushy foot prints.

All so beautiful I have been lucky enough to visit Lapland 5 times now but have not been to Rovanemi really like the look of it who did you book the holiday with please 😊

Almost everything in Lapland is expensive, Finland in general isn't that expensive country!

Looks very nice Tim! 👍

Hey Tim, you need to come to Alberta in the winter, we’ve gone down as low as -55, our coldest, has been -65. Absolutely freezing, but nothing stops,

Thank you! You have made really good video. Everything is so exciting and beautiful. Amazing ❤ Merry Christmas 🤶🎅

excellent video

What an amazing experience. Your vlog is the closest I will get to Lapland & that's fine as I hate the cold 🥶

Absolutely enjoyed it and it’s wonderful there but -20 🥶 brrr

this was such a fun watch !! almost jumped when u mentioned good old norwich lmaooo REPRESENT!!

Looks very nice

Very beautiful

Great video Tim shame I won't be going there to expensive it does look really nice though think I prefer where you were staying thank you for showing us though

looks quant but very commercialized and expensive for what it is, but it must be really neat for a total immersion experiance like this, we have a santa place as well in indiana down in the southern part called holiday world it was the first theme park in the world in santa clause indiana almost by the kentucky boarder I think, there was another place down there also that used to have a santa theamed park that had a giant cement santa in a nearby place but that was before the 1940's I think, curiously though holiday world is only open in the summer to fall, not during winter looks pretty up there though, its funny they speak pretty good english up there for it being a differant type of germanic language then even german or dutch. well have fun and merry christmas for you hopefully Mr Tim. the northern lightes are something else for sure I only saw an aurora 2 times and not very well here in indiana and that was during the summer we saw an aurora.

Santa cobidiano 😂

Brilliant vlog mate

When u say its realy expensive ofc it is cuz ur in the most expencive place in all of rovaniemi

You look really nice in the photo with Santa. But a bit of a nightmare of a place to visit

Where are you from to say cheese toastie? I grew up in central Illinois in America and it’s the only place I’ve ever heard it. We had cheese toastie on the menus in all the restaurants. You leave town back to grilled cheese.

Looks good Tim 👍

This place looks magical. We’ve always wanted to go and see the Northern Lights, are they as clear to the eye as they are on film Tim? Was it £50 just to see Santa and for the video? It’s a bit more commercial than I was expecting but still looks fun. Cheers Tim.

Awesome video Tim 👍 I'd wondered what it would be like to visit Rovanemi, what an amazing place, with an amazing price tag too that's for sure. I think you definitely had the best accommodation, I'd choose one of those cottages too. I hope you can go back there with Gaby and Casper when he is of an age to really enjoy it 😁

Don't worry about money on your holiday, if so go back to Yorkshire and eat fish and chips.

How much would you say it would cost including a couple of trips and food would you say is needed? just i have a specai birthday next year ( at christmas lol ) seriously thinking about this

What dates were you there Tim?

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Did you take the family , they would have loved it. Edited because it did not make sense.

Did you catch a cold? Either when there or when you got home?

Hi Tim, what date did you go?

Esso or Shell garage Tim 🤔 🙊

You are from London sir

Hello friend! What camera do you use? Also do you use a mic or the camera mic? 😃 TIA

Great video town looks great. But I think its all about the money big rip off.

What time of the year did you go?

Need cocoa

Ho Tim i am planning my lapland trip for january but i am stuck because i cant chose between rovaniemi or levi.i am afraid that chosing levi ..plus i see a lot of places having sauna but not many hot tubs...do you have any recomendations ? we dont have Kids ..

Hi Tim what month did you to here we want to take our son but December is too expensive for us right now I’m worried if I take him not in December he won’t see Santa 🎅 😞 Thankyou x

You went to actually buy water!? The tap water in Rovaniemi is actually better quality than any bottled water in the world.

Tim that was the most exciting video I have ever seen, you covered everything I wanted to see (especially by my fire) wonderful. A Big THANK YOU, and I sincerely hope you win an award, for giving us such details, and prices. 💖😘

English person visits tourist trap Santa Park, complains that it's a tourist trap, moans about the prices, wears jeans in minus 14, hilariously claims it's too cold to snow, and then has a moral dilemma about the idea of reindeer pelts and reindeer meat (despite it possibly being the most sustainably farmed natural meat and skins you can source, via native Sami herders). And then eats farmed salmon and pines for a Starbucks. Gotta love the Brits... 🤣

So expensive and bloody cold 🥶 rather go to the canaries for a week 🏝️

Just stunning Tim. Everything is so beautiful.Thank you for showing me this amazing place.👏🏻💕

Thanks for looking thru the gift shop and read out the price. I like buying souvenirs 😊

Lovely atmosphere in the "holiday camp" but I just know if I paid a hundred Euro for a half-day trip and was then told to "wait" and muster and relax and snack-up and dress up, I'd be fuming.

Pretty but way too commercial and pricy.

Thanks for the video Tim. This is a bucket list trip for us and we’re thinking this November for our 40th anniversary.

Maybe I've been in Cambridge too long but €99 for a 3 hour trip seems pretty reasonable to me! I'm going to look at booking here for 2024 I think

Your editing and production techniques are coming along miles - great video, fella 👌🏼

WOW I'm a 65 year old child again... ty for sharing Tim🎉🎉

Loved the video but my only criticism is you go about how expensive it is. It is Lapland with high tourism so bound to be expensive, if people did their research they should know this. Secondly the lack of snow you keep mentioning, this is because it’s mid nov. I’ve been to Levi every year for the past 10 years

You can definitely find more variety and more beautiful Christmas ornaments by far in Ruidoso, NM USA By faaaarrr

Looks very picturesque but the amount of restaurants and gift shops there are ridiculous. I would love to see the northern lights . I enjoyed watching though . And your poor red nose!!

Just visited the Santa village today. It looked so different today walking around in a tshirt in 25 degrees compared to - 14... Also it was a lot quieter, had only 2 groups ahead in the queue to meet santa. A great experience!

Absolutely amazing video Tim, so thorough. I’m glad you are so transparent with the pricing of things, it’s helpful if someone is planning a trip there. Keep up the good work!

I love huskys and I like Santa and the reindeer

Tourist spot, tourist prices.

Hello, Tim ❤ Warmest regards from Belarus! Enjoy your beautiful holiday 😍 Thank you 😊

Thanks for this video. I love watching the live cams from this part of the world and of Levi the ski resort. It’s fascinating to me being from Australia. I’ve heard before that it’s very expensive there. However, you’d probably only go there once, so what is the point of going and not doing the activities etc. might as well stay home and open the freezer door….lol. Love the husky tour you did and the northern lights. The people of Finland seem very friendly and polite. It would definitely be on my bucket list.

Wow this is my favourite vlog you have done ; always somewhere I have wanted to go ; absolutely stunning; the place you stayed in was wonderful ; thank you for this vlog

Mike from DownieLive stayed in Number 44 on his trip but he did it in the summer of 22

I'm looking forward to this and probably watch it at home on my smart TV. I've been to Lapland before.😻 Good Friday afternoon from Ayshire Scotland

Wow- what an interesting place. Would love to go there . Although it’s so commercial- have always wanted to do the husky ride, a wilderness trip and experience the northern lights.

Stunning video,Tim. Lapland looks so beautiful. But the costs! Thanks for honestly highlighting how pricey it all is. I'd love to go to see the country and the Northern Lights, not so much for Santa these days.😊👍 Btw the way, I'm glad you offered your hand, initially, to Santa. I hate that elbow bump thing.

Beautiful place can’t believe we will be there Wednesday we can’t wait ❤ thanks for sharing

Thanks for the video Tim. I always love how honest and transparent you are about everything (especially pricing). Please don’t change Tim, you do some amazing reviews and videos.