About Lapland Handbook
Guides to winter activities across northern Finland for people who are about to book one and want to know what they are actually buying.
What the site is
Lapland Handbook explains and compares the activities people come to northern Finland for: husky and snowmobile safaris, northern lights tours, reindeer farms, Santa Claus visits and ice fishing. Most tours look alike online. The differences that decide whether one suits you, such as group size, age limits, who drives and what happens if you cancel, are often buried or missing, and the guides set them out.
Each guide says who should not book, and each comparison is built from the operators’ own published details.
Who it is for
Anyone planning a trip to northern Finland who has already decided roughly what they want to do and is choosing how, with whom and at what price: couples, families with children, groups of friends and people travelling alone. Most guides start from the place you are staying in, because that decides which tours you can reach.
What you will find here
The site covers 21 places in northern Finland, with 620 guides and 74 articles, on 7 kinds of activity: Northern lights, Husky safaris, Snowmobiling, Santa Claus, Reindeer, Ice fishing, and Snowshoeing. Every page is published in 9 languages.
How the information is gathered
Prices, durations, age limits, group sizes and what is included are read from the operators’ own pages and booking systems, and the date each figure was read is recorded with it. Where an operator does not publish something, the page says “Not stated” rather than filling the gap. Nothing is estimated and nothing is invented. How we research and rank tours explains the method in full, including what decides the order operators appear in.
How booking works
The site does not sell tours itself. Some links lead to booking platforms such as GetYourGuide and Viator, others to the operator’s own site, and the booking is made there. Lapland Handbook earns a commission on some bookings made through links on this site. It does not change which operators we include, how we rank them or what we write about them.
Who is behind it
Lapland Handbook is written by its editorial staff in Rovaniemi.
To get in touch, write to [email protected] or see the contact page.
