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Husky safari in Pyhä: the price after the transfer

A team of harnessed huskies standing on a sunlit snowfield, lined out in pairs ahead of the sled

Illustration photo: a husky team in harness, not from one of the kennels compared here.

Lapland Handbook Staff How we research this

The short answer

Add the transfer before you compare. Staying in Pyhä near the farm, its runs are the cheaper way onto a sled, and you can drive yourself there. Staying in Luosto without a car, a safari sold from Luosto with transfer and clothing included can cost less than the farm's longer run once its transfer is paid. If your dates might move, the farm's listings can be cancelled free a day ahead, while the Luosto safaris charge in full from a week out.

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.

Pyhä farm: 4–5 kmPyhä farm: 8–10 kmLapland Safaris: 10 kmLapland Safaris: 15 km
Price €140 – the lowest listed price per person €199 €204 €288
Price with transfer from Luosto €160 – the lowest price once the transfer is paid €219 €204 €288
Trail 4–5 km 8–10 km 10 km 15 km
Length of the tour 1.5 h 2 h 2 h 30 min 3 h 30 min
Winter clothing Extra Extra Included Included
Youngest on the sled 4 4 Over 4 12
Cancelling Free up to 24 h before Free up to 24 h before €25 from 8 days, full price within 7 €25 from 8 days, full price within 7

Highlighted figures are the best in that row: the lowest listed price per person and the lowest price once the transfer is paid. All four price per person. The second price row is our arithmetic: the farm's price plus its €20 transfer. A longer trail is not better for a small child, so only the price rows are marked.

Where these figures come from
  • Pyhä farm: 4–5 km: The cheapest ticket and the one for a first ride: a short run behind six dogs, stories and berry juice in a hut. Transfer and winter clothing are extras, so bring your own gear or add it when booking.
  • Pyhä farm: 8–10 km: About forty minutes on the sled. From Pyhä, with your own car and clothes, it is the lower price for a real run; from Luosto, the transfer lifts it above the Luosto safari of similar length.
  • Lapland Safaris: 10 km: Everything in the price: the drive from Luosto, the clothing and the farm visit, six mornings a week. The catch is the cancellation terms, the strictest here.
  • Lapland Safaris: 15 km: The longest trail in the table, with coffee and a bun in a kota, on weekday afternoons. Nobody under twelve, and basic fitness is expected.

Pyhä-Luosto’s husky safaris come from two directions. The Pyhä Husky Farm, near Pyhä, sells its own runs through GetYourGuide. Lapland Safaris sells safaris from Luosto to a kennel it does not name, a short drive from the village. The two sets of prices look similar and are not, because they cover different things.

What the listed prices leave out

The farm’s prices are for the ride and the farm visit. The transfer is 20 euros per person on top, and winter clothing is extra too: the farm says it has none on site. Lapland Safaris’ prices include both.

So the second price row in the table matters more than the first. Staying in Luosto, the farm’s 8–10 km run comes to 219 euros with the transfer, more than the 204 euros of the 10 km safari from Luosto, which also lends you an outfit. Staying in Pyhä with a car and your own winter gear, the farm’s runs are the cheaper way onto a sled.

If you are new to it

The farm’s 4–5 km run is the gentle start: a short ride behind six dogs, then stories and warm berry juice in a hut. The farm’s dogs are, in its own words, Alaskan racing huskies, the working type behind most Lapland teams.

If your dates might move

This is where the operators differ most. The farm’s listings can be cancelled free until 24 hours before. Lapland Safaris’ Luosto terms charge a 25-euro fee from eight days out and the full price from seven days out, which on a short winter trip is a real risk.

If you want a longer trail

Lapland Safaris’ 15 km tour is the longest in the table, on weekday afternoons with coffee in a kota, for ages twelve and over. Its 30 km day is listed below.

How the husky trade in Luosto grew up with two kennels at either end of the resort is told in husky safari in Luosto. What makes a husky safari worth its price anywhere is in the Rovaniemi husky safari guide, and the rest of the area is on the Pyhä-Luosto destination page.

What a kilometre of trail costs on each husky safari, and why a child pays three quarters of the adult fare here, is worked out in husky safari prices in Pyhä-Luosto.

Tours you can book

Questions people ask

Will our family ride together?

Not necessarily at the Pyhä farm. Its listings say sledges always run full, with two adults and possibly children in each, and that a family may be split so that one adult rides with another guest. One adult must always drive, nobody under 18 drives except by the guide's decision, and a separate musher can only be arranged in special cases, booked ahead at extra cost. Lapland Safaris has two adults share a sled and swap at the halfway point if they want to.

Is the longer run too much for a young child?

The Pyhä farm raises this itself. Its 8–10 km listing says that children of six and under often start to cry from the cold on the sled, because they do not yet know how to handle it, and asks parents to think twice about whether the short family safari would suit their child better. Children under four do not ride at all, and the infant price covers only the farm visit.

Is there anything longer than 15 kilometres?

Yes. Lapland Safaris sells a 30-kilometre husky day from Luosto on Sundays, five hours with lunch outdoors, at 394 euros per adult, for ages 12 and over. It is listed under the table. It suits people who already know they like driving a sled; for a first ride it is a long day in the cold.

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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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