Things to do in Lapland
Nine activities, each with what it costs from the operators’ own pages, how long it takes and the age rules that decide whether your party can do it. A husky ride starts around 63 EUR, a reindeer sleigh ride around 30 EUR, a snowmobile safari around 97 EUR and a guided aurora night around 70 EUR.
Out on the snow
The four activities almost every Lapland package includes, and the rules that decide who can do them.
Husky safari
From about 63 EUR for a short ride to around 290 EUR for a half day. Driving your own sled needs someone aged 17 or over.
Reindeer sleigh rides
From about 30 EUR for a short ride in Rovaniemi. Slow, quiet, and the one that suits the youngest children.
Snowmobile safari
From about 97 EUR for an hour. Driving needs a licence valid in Finland and an age of 18; a passenger must be at least 140 cm.
Skiing
Downhill and cross-country at the fell resorts, with each resort’s own slopes, season dates and lift pass prices.
The night sky
Neither of these changes your odds of seeing anything. Read the Northern Lights guide before you book either one.
Northern Lights tours
An evening of 3 to 8 hours, from 69 EUR a person on the Rovaniemi tourist board’s listing on 24 September 2026, with a guide who drives to a gap in the cloud.
Glass igloos
A heated room with a glass roof, from 239 EUR a night at the lowest rate any operator publishes. It shows you a clear sky, which is not the same as an aurora.
Sleeping in the cold on purpose
Ice and snow hotels
What a night in a snow room is actually like, what it costs, and why many people book a day visit instead.
Heat, and a hole in the ice
Two slower ones: a Finnish sauna, and a line dropped through the ice of a frozen lake.
Finnish sauna
What happens in a Finnish sauna and the etiquette, then public saunas and ice swimming in Lapland, with prices from the operators’ own pages.
Ice fishing
When the ice season runs, what a guided trip includes and costs from the operators’ own pages, the minimum ages, and the permit rules.
What we will not tell you
We do not rank operators and we do not take payment for placement. Nothing on any of these pages is a recommendation of a particular company. What each page gives you instead is what the operators publish: the price, the duration, the minimum age, and the questions worth asking before you pay, including about the animals where animals are involved.
Every price these pages print is also in one file, lapland-activity-prices.csv, with the operator’s page and the date we checked it, free to reuse under the terms on using our figures.
Two things are missing on purpose. There is no page for an activity we could not price from an operator’s own site, and there is no page that promises the aurora. If you want a week built out of these, tell us your dates and a planner will put them in an order that works with the daylight.
Who this is not for
This page is a list, not a plan. If you want a week built around two or three of these, the planning is the work: tell us your dates instead. And if you are choosing a month, read when to go first: several of these only run when there is snow.
Tell us your dates and we will plan the trip
A planner replies within 2 business days, with one page: which base, which week, what to book first and what we would skip.
Sources
- Visit Finland, top things to do in winter in Lapland, checked 18 September 2026
Last checked 18 September 2026. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it and date the change.
Photographs, all from Wikimedia Commons: Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park in January by Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC BY-SA 4.0, colour-adjusted. Each is cropped and resized here, and our versions carry the same licence as the original.
