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The best reindeer tour in Levi

A reindeer pulling a low wooden sleigh with a seated driver across flat snow, with a snowy bank and fallen branches behind

Illustration photo: a reindeer sleigh ride, not on one of the tours named here.

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The short answer

Decide what the reindeer are for. If the ride is the point, book the longest one on its own rather than a combination, where the reindeer part is often a few hundred metres. If you want the herder's stories, pick the tour led by a Sami herder. If you want huskies too, choose the combination by who drives the dogs. For a farm and a walk without a sleigh, one listing here offers that.

A reindeer in Levi can be the whole outing or one stop on a busier day, and the listings sell both under much the same words. The difference shows in the distance behind the reindeer. Here is one pick for each purpose.

For the longest ride

Polar Star Travel’s three-kilometre sleigh ride, at 175 euros a person for two hours with transport from Levi.1 It is nearly four times the distance of the 800-metre ride below, and it ends with a chance to feed the young reindeer. If sitting behind a reindeer is the reason for the trip, this is the one to book.

For a Sami herder

Keo Wilderness’ hour is led by a Sami reindeer herder, with an 800-metre ride, a visit to the operator’s husky kennel and a warm drink, for 89 euros a person, in a group of nine at most. The ride is short; what you are paying for is the person driving the sleigh and the stories that come with it.

For a farm, not a ride

Soma Adventures sells four hours at its own reindeer farm on a private lake about 35 minutes from Levi, with snowshoeing and hundreds of reindeer, for 189 euros a person in a group of eight at most. The listing does not describe a sleigh ride. It takes nobody under 13.

With huskies on the same trip

Choose the combination by who drives the dogs. Keo Wilderness’ version gives you a team to drive for two kilometres, then an 800-metre reindeer ride with a Sami herder, for 150 euros. Polar Lights Tours puts the guide on the husky sled for 1.5 kilometres, which suits anyone who would rather sit, followed by a 500-metre reindeer glide, for 169 euros. Lovimainas links a 1.5-kilometre husky run and a 600-metre reindeer ride with a heated sleigh towed by a snowmobile, for 149 euros, but does not say who steers the dogs. All three tours and three more are compared on these two points in husky and reindeer in Levi.

With a snowmobile as well

Arctic Circle Snowmobile Park’s four-hour day adds a shared snowmobile ride to a husky farm and a reindeer farm, for 198 euros. Each animal ride is 500 metres, so this is a day of three tastes rather than a reindeer tour.

The four stand-alone sleigh rides, from 800 metres to three kilometres, are compared in reindeer farms in Levi, and the rest of the resort is on the Levi destination page.

Tours you can book

Questions people ask

Can we feed the reindeer?

On some tours it is part of the plan. Polar Star Travel's three-kilometre ride ends with a chance to meet and feed the young reindeer, and its ticket includes the reindeer food. Two of Levi's Santa programmes, Arcandia's Elf Court and Arctic Shaman Adventures' private Santa meeting, also list feeding reindeer among what you do. On the other listings feeding is not mentioned, so ask if it matters to your children.

Are the combination tours cheaper than two separate rides?

Usually, because the rides in them are shorter. Keo Wilderness sells its 800-metre reindeer ride on its own for 89 euros and a five-kilometre husky run for 150, while its combination costs 150 for an 800-metre reindeer ride and a two-kilometre husky run. You pay less and get less husky time; whether that is a saving depends on whether you wanted the longer run.

What if it is extremely cold on the day?

Lovimainas' listing sets a rule: at minus 30 °C or colder its reindeer ride is moved to another day. The other listings we read say nothing about cold, so ask before booking what happens in a hard frost, particularly if children are coming.

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Lapland Handbook Staff

Lapland Handbook is written by its editorial staff in Rovaniemi. Every price, age limit and group size in a comparison is read from the operator's own page and marked "Not stated" when the operator does not publish it. Each guide names who should not book, and names the operator that suits each kind of group, whichever it is.

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