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Husky safari prices at Ylläs

A husky lying asleep on the snow with its paws tucked under its chin

Illustration photo: a sled dog resting in the snow, not from one of the kennels priced here.

Lapland Handbook Staff How we research this

The short answer

For the most time behind the dogs per euro, take the ten-kilometre safari that lists about an hour on the sled: at 4.12 euros a minute it is the cheapest ride here by that measure, though the highest ticket. With small children the five-kilometre ride is the one to book, because it takes them from two and lists a child of two or three at no charge. Check the season, because one seller charges about twenty euros more at Christmas and in February.

How the operators compare

Prices are the operators' own published starting prices as of the date this guide was updated, and they change through the season.

Lapland Safaris: 5 kmYlläs Experience: 4–5 kmYlläs Experience: 6–10 kmLapland Safaris: 10 km
Adult price €166 – the lowest adult price €175 €235 €247
Child fare €125 (4–14), €0 (2–3) €145 (3–11) €185 (6–11) €186 (4–14)
On the sled About 30 min 20–35 min 35–50 min About 1 h
Adult price per minute on the sled €5.53 €6.36 €5.53 €4.12 – the lowest price per minute on the sled
High season price Not stated €195 €265 Not stated
Two adults and two children €582 €640 €840 €866

Highlighted figures are the best in that row: the lowest adult price and the lowest price per minute on the sled. The per-minute figures use the middle of each stated range. Lapland Safaris' child fares appear on its pages only when children are added to the participants; Ylläs Experience prints its child fares and its high-season adult prices, but not whether the child fares change in the high season.

Where these figures come from
  • Lapland Safaris: 5 km: The lowest ticket and the family ride: children from two, with a child of two or three listed at no charge and a child fare of 125 euros from four.
  • Ylläs Experience: 4–5 km: The dearest minute on the sled, at 6.36 euros, with a child fare from three. Twenty euros more an adult at Christmas and in February.
  • Ylläs Experience: 6–10 km: Two to a sled, 35 to 50 minutes of it, with a child fare from six. Thirty euros more an adult in the high season.
  • Lapland Safaris: 10 km: The highest ticket and the cheapest minute: about an hour on the sled for 247 euros. From four, at a child fare of 186.

Ylläs is unusual in one way that helps a buyer: both sellers say how long you sit on the sled, not only how far the trail runs. That turns a list of prices into a comparison.

What a minute behind the dogs costs

Lapland Safaris’ ten-kilometre safari, the highest ticket at 247 euros, puts about an hour on the sled, which works out at 4.12 euros a minute. Its five-kilometre ride and Ylläs Experience’s six-to-ten-kilometre safari both land at 5.53, and Ylläs Experience’s short ride is the dearest minute at 6.36. The order of the tickets and the order of the minutes are almost the reverse of each other.

What the children pay

Both sellers publish child fares, and they are not the same shape. Lapland Safaris charges 125 euros from four to fourteen on the short ride and 186 on the ten kilometres, three quarters of the adult price each time, and lists a child of two or three at no charge on the short ride. Ylläs Experience charges 145 euros from three to eleven on its short ride and 185 from six to eleven on the longer one.

Two adults and two children therefore pay 582 euros on the Lapland Safaris short ride, 640 and 840 on the Ylläs Experience rides and 866 on the ten kilometres. A family with a six-year-old and a three-year-old pays 457 euros on the short Lapland Safaris ride, because the youngest travels free.

The season you book

Ylläs Experience raises its adult prices between 13 December and 3 January and again from 31 January to 28 February: 195 euros instead of 175 and 265 instead of 235. Its page does not say whether the child fares move with them. Lapland Safaris shows one price per person on the part of its pages that opens without a date.

What each ticket includes, how far the kennel is and who may drive are compared on husky safaris at Ylläs, and the rest of the resort is on the Ylläs destination page.

The cheapest husky booking we have found in this corner of Lapland is not a safari at all: a 45-minute kennel visit about an hour away, at 20 euros a head, is on husky farm in Muonio.

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Questions people ask

How much does the high season add?

Ylläs Experience charges 195 euros instead of 175 on its short ride and 265 instead of 235 on the longer one between 13 December and 3 January and again from 31 January to 28 February. That is 20 or 30 euros an adult, and its pages do not say whether the child fares rise with them. Lapland Safaris shows one price per person on the parts of its pages that open without a date.

Can a child of two really come?

On the five-kilometre Lapland Safaris ride, yes: its page takes children over two, calls the safari suitable for families and lists children of two and three at no charge. Ylläs Experience starts at three on its short ride and six on the longer one. On the ten-kilometre Lapland Safaris safari the youngest is four.

Is a husky ride all right during pregnancy?

Lapland Safaris advises against it. Its Ylläs husky pages say the excursions can be physically demanding because of the vibration on uneven tracks and that husky programmes are not suitable for pregnant women. Ylläs Experience's page says nothing either way in our record, so ask before booking rather than assuming the short ride is gentler.

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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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