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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,856
    If you fancy the experience but the price is too steep in December, look at getting out there in Jan / Feb. OK, you wont see Santa (the real one, not a fake) but everything else is available and not at a Christmas premium. We stayed at Spa Hotel Levitunturi in Levi, connected by a tunnel to the Levi spa. The outdoor pool is an experience at -26. The only downside is that for reasons best known to the Fins, swimming shorts are banned, and budgie smugglers are required (though not in the sauna's where its all on display).
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    edited December 2018
    MrOneLung said:

    My kids are 5 and just turned 8 and they are questioning if Santa is real.

    Sit down at the weekend wrapped up under a blanket together and stick the Polar Express on.

    Works every time. Magical.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Anyone know where you can do a tooth fairy tour?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,630
    Addickted said:

    Anyone know where you can do a tooth fairy tour?

    Think you can do it in a boat, along the root canal.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Addickted said:

    Anyone know where you can do a tooth fairy tour?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEbKaco6Bwg
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    MrOneLung said:

    My kids are 5 and just turned 8 and they are questioning if Santa is real.

    My 5 year old done exactly the same thing, i tried explaining and he wasn't having any of it.
  • SX_Addick
    SX_Addick Posts: 667
    Went to Lapland for 4 nights taking in NewYears Eve ten years ago. NYE spent on a frozen lake with a bonfire(!), fireworks and sipping champagne; also taking in the Northern lights. Did snowmobiling and husky ride. Both magical experiences. You get issued all the outside clothes, so we were never that cold.

    Going again in a fortnight. Taking the grandkids to see the real Father Christmas.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    AFKABartram said:
    I rarely get jealous of anything but this thread does it for me! Kids are 8 1/2 and I’m gutted the utter magic of Xmas will be coming to an end soon :-(
    This 12 months ago spurred us into booking up Lapland Uk in January this year.

    If the trip to the real Lapland is out your reach, I cannot recommend this place enough. Probably the best thing I’ve ever done in this country and so so glad we fitted it in before our kids got too old. Absolute magic, worth every penny, the people who work there are at Disney levels of help, happiness etc. When Father Christmas asked my boys about Charlton Athletic and the play off final, ah man, fantastic.

    Had the best couple of days and am absolutely buzzing. 
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    That sounds amazing, one of the worst things about raising a kid here will be the difficulty of him 'getting'  Christmas.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,812
    My missus has just booked this for us and the 4 kids - I shed a little tear I won't lie when she confessed the price - christ there wants to be plenty there!!, however reading the review above @AFKABartram makes me feel a little better. We did have the real Lapland booked for December (luckily the kids didn't know about it) so this will have to do (feels like it's cost about the same - haha)

    Kids have missed out on so much this year that I'm hoping this will be magical for them

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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,856
    Swisdom said:
    We went last year 23rd to 27th December and it was incredible. Kids were 5 & 9 which was perfect. Amazing place, stunning scenery and Canterbury Travel did a fantastic job. Cost was around £6.5 - £7k for 4 of us but worth every penny as it was truly magical. Moonlit reindeer safari to view the northern lights was the most relaxing thing I’ve ever done and all whilst snuggled up with my daughter. Perfect! We booked through Go Travel who liaised with Canterbury Travel and booked it all up. I can’t recommend it highly enough...the memories will live on forever
    Sadly, Go Travel a recent victim of the impact of Covid-19 on the travel industry.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Disappointed, thought this thread would be about a new club.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Elthamaddick said:
    My missus has just booked this for us and the 4 kids - I shed a little tear I won't lie when she confessed the price - christ there wants to be plenty there!!, however reading the review above @AFKABartram makes me feel a little better. We did have the real Lapland booked for December (luckily the kids didn't know about it) so this will have to do (feels like it's cost about the same - haha)

    Kids have missed out on so much this year that I'm hoping this will be magical for them

    I've not had a great year either, can I come? You pay.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Looking forward to the reviews of this year, might book next year when the little one should be more aware of what's going on. 
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    We're taking our boys the Lapland UK in December. Hoping Covid doesn't impact too much on the experience but can't see how it won't with things like social distancing and masks likely still in place.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,855
    Dazzler21 said:
    Looking forward to the reviews of this year, might book next year when the little one should be more aware of what's going on. 
    Afka already said he liked it.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    edited October 2020
    MrOneLung said:
    Dazzler21 said:
    Looking forward to the reviews of this year, might book next year when the little one should be more aware of what's going on. 
    Afka already said he liked it.
    Yeah, but I like to consider spending that kind of money on a day out, off of more than just one review and that is more recent :D
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Rereading the article about Lapland New Forest.  Brought tears to my eyes:

    "violent outbursts by irate customers, including Santa being attacked and one of the elves being "smacked in the face and pushed into a pram"."

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