Day Trips Holidays to Lapland.

Day trips to Lapland are the most popular way of visiting Santa. These depart from many regional airports throughout December. Flights touch down in Lapland at approx 12:30 local time with a 3½ hour flight of Christmas singing, colouring, drawing and lots of very excited children.

On some trips the magic starts the moment the icy blast of Artic air fills your lungs as you are whisked away from the airport terminal (no bigger than a large house) on a sleigh ride across the frozen Finnish lakes towards the activity area set in a snow clad spruce forest. From the time you land and are kitted out with appropriate arctic attire you will have approximately 6-7 hours of magical fun in front of you.

Traditional reindeer and husky rides, snowmobiles and toboggans will cater for all tastes and levels of excitement and ages. Many of the trips offer all these with no limits to the number of times you can ride, others are less generous.

However, these are incidental to the main reason for getting up early and flying 3 hours into freezing snowy conditions – meeting Father Christmas himself. All trips cater for an encounter with Father Christmas. The “less commercialised” trips include a private family meeting with Santa with personal greeting, letter reading (these should be taken with you to assist Santa !), and also a small personal gift. The look on your child’s face when they meet Santa is what it’s all about – Dreams becoming reality.

Santadays provide a number of day trips to Lapland: