Ice Hotel - Excursions

As well as affording its guests the chance to stay in one of the world's truly unique hotels, Ice Hotel also operates a range of incredible activites and excursions to help you make the most of your time in this stunning part of Scandanavia.

Here we feature our personal favourites, just a small selection of the activities on offer to give you an idea of what you can expect during your stay. For a full list of activities and excursions, please contact one of our Scandanavia specialists.

Remote and stunningly beautiful, the Ice Hotel and its surrounding landscape offers an amazing opportunity to explore this icy wilderness in Swedish Lapland.

As well as affording its guests the chance to stay in one of the world's truly unique hotels, Ice Hotel also operates a range of incredible activites and excursions to help you make the most of your time in this stunning part of Scandanavia.

Here we feature our personal favourites, just a small selection of the activities on offer to give you an idea of what you can expect during your stay. For a full list of activities and excursions, please contact one of our Scandanavia specialists.

Northern Lights Snowmobiling - including dinner

In cooperation with the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Ice Hotel offers a snowmobile excursion in search of the magic Northern Lights where their trained guides will tell you the facts and myths surrounding this celestial phenomenon. A three-course dinner with local ingredients will be served at a wilderness camp during the tour.

Price: £165 per person (2 on 1 snowmobile) (single supplement is payable locally)

Sled dog ride in winter wonderland (1.5 hrs)

Take a seat in the sled, experience the howling dogs, and then the silence when the journey begins. Coffee and cake over a campfire is included as part of the tour.

Price: £160 per person

Northern lights tour on horse back

Together with our Icelandic horses, we ride out into the winter night and, with luck, catch a glimpse of the northern lights and moose herds that inhabit the region. Transfers and a sumptuous dinner with local ingredients is served as part of the tour.

Price: £210 per person

Ráidu encounter with reindeer

Join our Sami guide as you venture to the reindeer camp for an encounter with these wonderful animals. Enjoy a short reindeer sled ride around a track before hand feeding the reindeer calves. Enjoy a cup of steaming coffee and a taste of Suova, the Sami national dish, all included as part of the tour.

Price: £255 per person

Make your own Ice sculpture

Let yourself be guided into the magical world of ice sculpting. Using traditional tools and with professional guidance from a resident artist, create a scuplture to be proud of.

Price: £75 per person

Wilderness dinner

In the comfort of a mini bus we travel to a wilderness camp, located at the water's edge in the forest. We start with a warming pre-dinner drink in a tipi-style Sàmi tent and the guide tells us about the Aurora Borealis, northern lights, and the wild animals of this Arctic region. A three-course dinner is waiting for us around the sparkling fire in the wilderness cabin. Following desserts and coffee, we make our return to ICEHOTEL where the excursion ends.

Price: £240 per person

Skiiing in the Poikkijarvi woods

Comfortably seated in the snowmobile sled, the guide drives us the short distance across Torne river, towards the forest area around the village of Poikkijärvi. On arrival, strap your skis on and head into the forest. During the tour we refuel with hot dogs and coffee around a log fire. You may borrow the skis for the rest of the day.

Price: £75 per person

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