Where is the best place to go in Finland for Xmas fun?

Question

want very Xmassy activites - reindeer riding, bob sleighs, hot tubs etc.

Answer 1

If you want to see a reindeer, then Helsinki is _not_ the place. Helsinki is the capital of Finland, and there are no reindeers in the middle of the city. You could find some in the zoo, but that's not what you want I guess. Also, as a coastal city in the most southern part of Finland, Helsinki doesn't probably even have decent snow during Christmas! (and the same goes with Åland, or Ahvenanmaa as we Finns call it...)

What you want is to see Lapland, and Rovaniemi is the biggest city up there. Yes, that's the place where Santa lives (actually not in Rovaniemi, though they have the theme parks and other tourist stuff; the real place is at Korvatunturi, which is more or less far away from decent sized cities). Lapland has the reindeers, snow and sleigh rides, and I guess hotels have hot tubs too, but I really don't see how they relate to Christmas.

I would recommend to study http://www.laplandfinland.com/?deptid=16024 , that site has good information to any tourist wanting to visit Lapland, and also lots of links to online booking services, websites of all kinds of events and so on.

Answer 2

i wouldn't say that Finland is wealthier than the different western usa frequently. We would have extra beneficial social protection and no absolute poverty yet nonetheless it rather is somewhat subjective element the way you define prosperity. we've very almost a million human beings out of 5.3 million residing below poverty line defined by ecu (this is somewhat above one thousand € a month). Our nationwide wellbeing care is being privatized and deconstructed slowly. Our ordinary tax fee is somewhat intense, over 40 5% and getting greater for people who earn plenty. So in different words you won't be able to get any wealthier in this usa by working extra because of the fact the income tax progression seems after the foreclosure. We would have somewhat some faculties and better training yet what's the think approximately getting 2 grasp's levels and nonetheless there is not any longer somewhat some attainable jobs and profession opportunities. as quickly as we've misplaced all production then shall we could placed a plug on the expenditure and do some serious explanation. different international places look extra rational of their politics...right here in basic terms all of us is yelling for loose rides on each little thing. this won't final continuously.

Answer 3

Helsinki

Answer 4

Helsinki is great but then so is Aland, it is a small Island inbetween sweden and finland, owned by finland, but they use swedish money, people are really nice and it rocks!

Answer 5

According to Finns, Santa lives in Rovaniemi.

http://www.rovaniemi.fi/?deptid=3694
http://www.santaclaus.fi/?deptid=14561
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi

Answer 6

Here are some sites that could help you out. Have a fun time.

http://www.visitfinland.com/w5/index.nsf/(pages)/Winter_Activities

http://www.helsinkiexpert.fi/index_english.html

Answer 7

GO TO FINLAND TOURIST BUREAU...