Planned or similar hotels for departure from November 27 to December 7, 2025:

Helsinki: 2 nights Radisson Red Hotel

Rovaniemi: 1 night Artic City Hotel

Kukkolaforsen: 1 night Turist & Konferens Hotel

Kiruna: 2 nights Camp Ripan

Narvík: 1 night Quality Grand Royal Hotel

Oslo: 2 nights Thon Hotel Opera

Planned or similar hotels for departure from March 12 to 22, 2026:

Helsinki: 2 nights Radisson Red Hotel

Tornio: 2 nights Park Hotel

Kiruna: 2 nights Camp Ripan

Narvík: 1 night Quality Grand Royal

Oslo: 2 night Thon Hotel Opera

The diet on this trip is as follows:

All breakfasts in hotels are included and are buffet style.

To ensure a seamless experience, we also include 5 lunches and 2 dinners in the Arctic region we are traveling, because there are limited opportunities of restaurants existing, many of them only catering for groups on the basis of pre-bookings. In this way we assure that the often tight program can be managed without delay and wasting time for searching catering facilities.

The included lunches and dinners are either in the format of mini buffets with a choice of 2-3 main dishes, salad or soup, desert, or served 2-course meals. When lunches or dinners are not included in the tour, our tour escort will be happy to advice about restaurants where to get meals, from simple sandwiches to fine dining, according to your preferences.

Among the traditional Finnish dishes we recommend trying are:

Sauteed Reindeer (Poronkäristys): A traditional Lappish dish made with thinly sliced reindeer meat, which is sautéed and served with mashed potatoes, lingonberry sauce, and some vegetables.

Salmon Soup (Lohikeitto): The creamy salmon soup is popular all over Finland. It is made with fresh salmon, potatoes, leeks, carrots, and sometimes peas. Dill is a key ingredient, giving the soup its distinctive flavor.

Karelian Pie (Karjalanpiirakka): Karjalanpiirakka is a traditional Finnish pastry filled with rice porridge, mashed potatoes, carrot, and rice filling. Ther crust is typically made with thin rye dough.

As for traditional Swedish dishes, they would be:

Swedish Meatballs (Köttbullar): The small, seasond ground meat balls often made with a mix of beef and pork, are typically served with lingonberry sauce and potatoes.

Cinnamon Rools (Kannelbullar): They are popular at the Swedish coffee break (“fika”). The filling of the snails consists of butter or margarine, sugar and cinnamon, optionally cardamom, brushed with egg and sprinkled with sugar.

As examples of traditional Norwegian dishes we propose:

Pinnekjøtt: Pinekjött ist a traditional Norwegian winter dish. It consists of salted and dried, sometimes smoked, lamb ribs. Traditionally, these were soaked in salt water for at least a day, then cooked and steamed over birch branches.

Gravlax (Gravlaks): Raw salmon cured with a mixture of sugar, salt, and dill. It is typically served with mustard sauce and flatbread.