Venues
Happy Island
Happy Island is a small, privately owned island located in the middle of Kemijoki-river, the longest river in Finland. This island offers a unique experience that begins immediately as a small, wooden bridge leads you to the island. Devoted to high quality, the ‘Kota’ restaurant offers delicious lunches and dinners. They accept groups of up to 80 people.
Happy Island also offers remarkable accommodation in cottages with a small sauna and lovely summer terrace facing the river. Beautiful birch and pine trees surround all this.
Arctic Circle
This is the home of Santa Claus where you are able to meet him personally all year round. Clerks at his unique Santa Claus Post Office will stamp your letters with a special Santa postmark. The workshop village has the best shopping anywhere in the Arctic area. Visitors can take part in an Arctic Circle Crossing Certificate Award Ceremony, and there are several cafeterias and restaurants to dine in. The Santa Claus Workshop is open every day of the year.
Located near the Santa Claus Village, Reindeer Park is a place where you can see reindeer any time of the year! Also located nearby is a special Christmas theme park called Santapark.
Snowland
Snowland is a specially built igloo complex, situated 3 km from Rovaniemi town centre. A lantern-lit path leads to the area, where you find an open fire place, snow and ice sculptures, a "kota" - the Lapp teepee, the main igloo restaurant and smaller igloos to even stay overnight! The restaurant has been built composing of two large rooms, "the North Star" and "the Big Dipper". Inside the igloo, in the cosy lantern-lit rooms under the starry sky, your dinner is served on tables made of ice. The capacity of the restaurant is 250 persons. It's also possible to experience an arctic disco or a sleigh ride combined with your visit to Snowland.
Forest Manor
Forest Manor is a privately owned restaurant located not far from the Santa Claus’ Village but still in its own peaceful surrounding. Forest Manor is built in old Southern Lapland style. The manor has now been transported from its original location to the present site where the manor has been completely renovated. However, the renovation has been made with a respect to old traditions and style. The capacity of the main restaurant is 240 persons and in the cellar restaurant 60 persons.
Poropirtti-lodge
Poropirtti-lodge is a privately owned restaurant situated in an old, wooden house made of massive Lappish logs. It is situated 10 km from Rovaniemi by the Ounasjoki-river. The house itself consists of one large room with an open fireplace and massive wooden furniture, a smaller chamber and a room, which may be used as a wardrobe. The restaurant seats approximately 180 people altogether. The main dining room seats 150. The atmosphere in Poropirtti itself and its surroundings reminds one of the old times when Lumberjacks worked in the forests and prepared the long-lasting, beautiful material for houses, boats, furniture and other articles for daily use.
Reindeer Farm
Guests have the opportunity to learn about the age-old way of life in the northern areas of Europe on a Lappish reindeer farm. Although man began to tame reindeer hundreds of years ago, it is still basically a wild animal. However, nowadays, there are a few reindeer farms in Lapland where travelers may encounter this interesting animal. Guests will receive a warm welcome from the reindeer herdsman himself upon arrival to the farm. Dozens of reindeer roam around the corral for all to see. The ‘Kota’, a traditional Lappish teepee, stands in the center of the farm. It was used by nomadic herdsmen long ago, as it was practical; easy to set up and take down and gave a warm shelter from the cold rain, wind and snow.
Guests visiting in the wintertime have the opportunity to go on a reindeer-driven sled ride.
Husky Farm
Nobody can enter a Husky farm unnoticed; the howling and yapping of nearly 100 Huskies lets others know that visitors are coming! What a welcome!
Some of the huskies have a small doghouse of their own and some spend time in a pen with his brothers and sisters. Being a rather sociable animal, Huskies are always happy to receive visitors who will keep their company and pet them. They are also very eager to pull a sled and they can hardly wait to take visitors for a safari in the snow-covered forests. After a drive in a husky sled we will visit the owner’s wooden chamber in the middle of the farm. This will be followed by a nice cup of hot juice by campfire or a full Lappish lunch.
Arktikum
Arktikum at Rovaniemi is a science centre and museum focusing on the Arctic regions. It consists of the Arctic Centre, presenting life, history and cultures north of the Arctic Circle, and the Provincial Museum of Lapland, which researches and presents the Lappish wilderness and cultural hertiage. The permanent exhibition called Survivors includes archeologcal finds thousands of years old, news clips from past decades and striking proof of how modern structural change has put the population of the far north to the test. www.arktikum.fi
Santamus restaurant
The Santamus log house, with its thirty-three corners, is a genuine experience house concealing pieces of authentic Lappish nature. The purl of the brook, the pond with its trout, and the glow of the burning firewood in the dark create a wonderful ambience that you need to see to believe.
The amazing yet versatile environment combined with top quality Lappish gourmet kitchen and a vide range of services offers an impressive setting for negotiations, professional training or entertraining fo the both smaller and larger groups.
Ounasvaara Ski Resort
Only 3 kms from Rovaniemi town centre there is Ounasvaara hill offering possibilities for downhill skiing, cross-country skiing and tobogganing. Four different category slopes issue challenges for beginners as well as more advanced skiers. Also snowboarders and freesiders find a value of table-tops and a half-pipe. www.ounasvaara.netaller and larger groups.
Sampo - An Arctic Ice adventure
The Sampo, the world's only tourist icebreaker, operates on the northern Gulf of Bothnia out of Kemi in Finnish Lapland. After serving for thirty years as an icebreaker in Arctic waters, the vessel has been given a new, more fascinating task - to act as a base for ice adventurers.
The frozen Arctic landscape, the winter darkness, the crackling frost and the clear starry skies with their Aurora Borealis offer visitors a unique experience in the midst of untamed nature. In late winter the sun appears in all its glory, painting the landscape a dazzling white - freshness and warmth to invigorate the traveller.
The Sampo sails from the middle of December to the end of April. The trips last four hours. The ship can also be booked entirely for private use. All charter trips are conducted to a programme selected by the customer. The Sampo operates as a restaurant during the summer and can also be booked for conferences.
Vaattunki
Vaattunki is a log cabin restaurant, located 20 minutes drive from Rovaniemi town centre. Vaattunki is built from the huge logs and it is located on the shores of a pristine stream. This private restaurant has a large dining room for 80 people and a small dining room for 20 people. Upon the arrival the yard is lit by candles. The log walls, wooden furniture, an attractive fireplace together with an authentic lumberjack atmosphere create an idyllic and peaceful setting for dining where the dinner will be served by candle light.
There are two saunas in Vaattunki. The riverside sauna holds 14 people and the smoke sauna holds 12 people. You can also have a warm bath in the Hot-pool underneath the Arctic Circle sky.
There are also two log cabins for accommodation:
Loft lodge: Accommodation for 20 people: five rooms for 2 - 4 people, toilet, shared shower and a living room.
Kymppi lodge: Accommodation for 32 people: 8 rooms for 2 - 4 people, bunk beds, two shared toilets and showers, two living rooms.
Conference Places
Town Hall
Conference Rooms:
Council Chamber, 223 persons, Theatre/class room style
9 Classrooms, 8-25 persons
Foyer, 200 persons, Coffee and buffet
Dining:
Restaurant Elissa, 80 persons
Promenade + lower lobby, 400 persons, Cocktail occasions
Lappia House
Conference Rooms:
Theatre Hall Tieva, 427 persons, Theatre style
Conference Hall Kero, 130 persons, Theatre/class room style
Tieva + Kero, 557 persons
Dining:
Foyer, 200 persons
Foyer + Kero, 300 persons
Buffet, 600 persons
Cocktail occasion, 700 persons
Arktikum
Conference Rooms:
Polarium, 179 persons, Theatre style
Aurora, 120 persons, Class room style
Auditorium, 48-100 persons, Class room style
Classroom, 22 persons
Dining:
Main Hal, l 350-700 persons, Cocktail occasions
Restaurant, 80 persons
Restaurant + Aurora, 240 persons
Lappi-Arena
Conference Rooms:
Conference Facilities in Hotles in Rovaniemi
CITY HOTEL***
- Two conference rooms, maximum capacity is 60 persons.
SCANDIC HOTEL ***
- For conferences there are five meeting rooms of 6-120 seats with basic AV-equipment.
SOKOS HOTEL VAAKUNA ***
- For conferences there is one meeting room of 40 seats.
SKY HOTEL ROVANIEMI ***
- Auditorium for 110 persons, four conference rooms for 12 – 50 persons.
HOTEL RANTASIPI POHJANHOVI ***-****
- For conferences there are 10 meeting rooms from 20 to 180 persons and 8 group-work rooms for 5 to 15 persons.
HOTEL SANTA CLAUS ****
- Conference facilities for 60 persons
