After viewing some of the blogs on this site, it appears that I may be addressing readers in the good old USA. If this is the case, let me start by saying that I am a UK citizen and for those of you who don't know, Lapland is located in the Euro zone, above the arctic circle and covers terrain in four countries Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia although Finnish Lapland (where our property is located) is the one and only home of good old Santa Claus.
As mentioned yesterday, today I am going to talk a little about flights to the region as this can be somewhat tricky and in today's competitive world of low cost air travel, Lapland is one of the remaining regions to which air travel can be considered comparatively expensive.
Summertime
In the summertime, the choices for our travel routes have been quite limited but we are lead to believe that this will change in the future but how soon we do not know. Ideally, we would have chosen to fly direct into Kittila airport (approximately 45km from our property) but flights are somewhat limited so instead we have had to arrange flights from the UK to Helsinki and then onto Rovaniemi which is the gateway to the arctic circle and then we have a 2-21/2 hour drive northward to our property. However, the thought of driving on open quiet roads through beautiful green countryside really does pain me!! (Please excuse my warped sense of humour, it doesn't pain me really and I can't wait for the day to arrive).
Wintertime
Flights in the winter have been easier to come by due to the amount of Brits that head out to the region on Santa Trips or for Ski/Snowboarding vacations. I have now booked ours for the last few days in December and into early January and have been able to get flights directly to Kittila with one of the tour operators who specialise in offering ski vacations. Prices are still comparatively high, but the convenience of flying into Kittila when there is several feet of snow on the ground is worth every penny.
That's all for today folks but if any of you have anything specific that you want to know about the region then please leave me a comment and if I don't know the answer then i'll find it out for you and post it on here in the near future.
Please check back again soon for more updates.
As mentioned yesterday, today I am going to talk a little about flights to the region as this can be somewhat tricky and in today's competitive world of low cost air travel, Lapland is one of the remaining regions to which air travel can be considered comparatively expensive.
Summertime
In the summertime, the choices for our travel routes have been quite limited but we are lead to believe that this will change in the future but how soon we do not know. Ideally, we would have chosen to fly direct into Kittila airport (approximately 45km from our property) but flights are somewhat limited so instead we have had to arrange flights from the UK to Helsinki and then onto Rovaniemi which is the gateway to the arctic circle and then we have a 2-21/2 hour drive northward to our property. However, the thought of driving on open quiet roads through beautiful green countryside really does pain me!! (Please excuse my warped sense of humour, it doesn't pain me really and I can't wait for the day to arrive).
Wintertime
Flights in the winter have been easier to come by due to the amount of Brits that head out to the region on Santa Trips or for Ski/Snowboarding vacations. I have now booked ours for the last few days in December and into early January and have been able to get flights directly to Kittila with one of the tour operators who specialise in offering ski vacations. Prices are still comparatively high, but the convenience of flying into Kittila when there is several feet of snow on the ground is worth every penny.
That's all for today folks but if any of you have anything specific that you want to know about the region then please leave me a comment and if I don't know the answer then i'll find it out for you and post it on here in the near future.
Please check back again soon for more updates.
3 comments:
Hi Phil, out of interest which tour operator did you get your Kittila flights thorugh? It seems like BMI have recently started seasonal direct flights to Kittila flying from Heathrow on a Saturday.
Regards
Simon
Hi Simon,
our flights to Kittila were through Inghams the ski package company in the UK. They are monarch flights but again are only available in the winter/ski season. In the summer, we used Finnair and travelled London to Helsinki the Helsinki to Rovaniemi. Unfortunately for us, Kittila airport was closed for a month or so during the summer so flights into there were not possible.
I prefer to spend my vacations at Hawaii and got well developed vacation tours at Marriott.
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