Start here
Start by settling whether Lapland is the trip you want at all, then choose your month and your base, and only then work out what to book first. Three decisions, taken in that order, and the shape of the trip is settled.
1. Is this the trip you want?
Before the month and the base, settle what the trip is. Lapland is a long way north, the winter days are short, and the things people come for happen in different seasons.
Where is Lapland?
It is not a country. Where the region is, how far north it reaches, and the time difference with the UK.
Lapland holidays
The kinds of Lapland holiday, who each one suits, and how to choose between a package and planning it yourself.
What a Lapland trip costs
What drives the cost, published prices in EUR, and where the money goes furthest.
2. When, and where from there
The month decides more than the base does: it sets the daylight, the snow, the price and whether the aurora is visible at all.
When to go
The months that suit most people, and what each one trades.
Northern Lights
What it actually takes to see them, and how many nights to allow.
Destinations
Which base suits you: the city, the fell resorts, the far north and the coast.
Compare
The two-way decisions people get stuck on, settled with a table.
3. What to book, and in what order
Accommodation first, then the activities that sell out, then the rest. These pages say what each thing is, what it costs and who it does not suit.
Where to stay
The bases and the kinds of stay, with published price bands.
Experiences
Husky, reindeer, snowmobile, skiing and the glass-roofed rooms, with what each is really like.
Trip types
Whether the trip is realistic for your people, and what to drop.
A Lapland day trip
What a day trip from the UK contains, and when a short break is the better choice.
What this site will not do
We do not rank places, and nothing here is a paid placement. Every page says who it is not for, and every figure that can change carries the date we last checked it. If a page cannot answer something honestly, it says so instead of filling the gap.
Who this is not for
This page is a route through the site, not a guide in itself. If you already know your month or your base, go straight to that page.
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
- Regional Council of Lapland, information about 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.
