Jeris - Winter Adventure (Adult Trip) - Snowmobiling Trip

Accommodation

We get consistently excellent feedback from our clients who travel to Jeris and there’s little doubt that this is one of the best places in Lapland for combining active wilderness experiences with rest and relaxation. A stunning lakeside location, probably the purest air in Europe, spa facilities and excellent winter safaris are but a few of the highlights.

Located on the shores of beautiful Lake Jerisjarvi you have a choice between 27 en-suite bedrooms and 40 lovely winter cottages all with their own sauna and fireplace.

The Hotel
The hotel has 27 Scandinavian style bedrooms all of which have a private shower and toilet room as well as a clothes drying cupboard, TV and telephone.
The excellent restaurant overlooks the lake and serves traditional Finnish dishes as well as international cuisine. The bar, with its open fireplace, is the perfect place to relax before dinner or why not wind down in the lakeside spa? The spa is the ideal relaxation area after an active day outdoors. You can lie in one of the two small heated pools while enjoying views of the snow covered lake.

After a day in the winter cold you can warm up in an electrically heated sauna or test the real Lappish wood heated smoke sauna. For the really adventurous (some would say mad!), there is a 25-metre illuminated ice pool, which is kept open throughout the winter.

Winter Cottages
These high quality winter cottages vary in size sleeping from 2 to 6 people. Imagine returning to a warm fire or a private sauna after a day in the wilds of Lapland. Bliss!

Each cottage has a lounge/kitchenette, sauna, shower and toilet room, fireplace, drying cupboard and TV.

Winter Cottage Type A
Sleeps from 2 to 4 people and consists of one spacious room with a sleeping alcove for two people and a pull out sofa bed for two more.

Winter Cottage Type B
Sleeps from 4 to 6 people with one bedroom downstairs and a loft sleeping area for a further four people.

Winter Cottage Type C
Sleeps from 4 to 6 people with two bedrooms downstairs and a loft sleeping area for a further two people.

Itineraries

Flights, Arrival and Transfers
You will be greeted on arrival at Kittila Airport and transferred to your accommodation. After settling in, it’s a short walk over to the main building for a welcome meal.

Reindeer Safari
We drive to the old Lapland Manor where our local reindeer herder’s family has lived since the 19th Century. There will be a short film presentation describing the importance of reindeer in Lappish life before visiting the reindeer farm.
At the farm you can try your hand at lassoing before setting off in a reindeer-pulled sleigh for a 3km safari. Lunch is included by an open fire in a traditional Lappish kota.

We return to the accommodation after lunch where there will be time for snow activities within the grounds such as tobogganing, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.

Cross-Country Skiing
The cross-country skiing trails start next to the hotel. Your guides will teach you the basics of this remarkably easy discipline before taking you on a guided skiing trip across the snowy landscape.

Snowshoeing and Ice Fishing
After lunch in the hotel restaurant you don your snowshoes and head onto frozen Lake Jerisjarvi. Your guide will lead you to a designated ice fishing area where he or she will drill holes through the thick ice. Everybody can then try to catch dinner in the time honoured and traditional fashion. Happy fishing!

Snowmobiles and Huskies
You will try two widely contrasting forms of winter transport today. Firstly, you will receive an instruction and safety briefing from your snowmobile guide before speeding off on a 20km safari to a local husky farm.

Once at the husky farm, you will meet the dogs and learn something about their lives before driving your own team into the white wilderness of Fell Lapland. En-route, you will stop for lunch around an open fire. On returning to the husky farm, you again jump on the snowmobiles for the journey back to the hotel.

Departure, Transfers and Flights
After a few action-packed days, it’s time to bid farewell to your guides before the transfer back to Kittila Airport for your return flights.