Private northern lights tour in Muonio: what private means here
Illustration photo: cabins under the aurora in Finland, not the companies named here.
The short answer
If you are planning a whole week, book one of the small Muonio companies' winter weeks: they take private groups of two to five, or at most six guests, and an aurora night is part of the programme. If you want one private evening, the ones sold with a price are in Levi: from 684 euros for up to six for five hours, or 750 euros for up to four with a photographer. Ask whether they will collect from Muonio.
Private is how the small Muonio companies work, but they sell it by the week, not by the night.
The small companies: private by default
One of them takes only private groups of two to five,1 and its aurora tour is part of every winter week it runs rather than a separate booking.2 The other runs week-long trips for at most six guests, with the northern lights among the reasons to go.3 For a party already planning a week in Muonio, that is the whole answer.
The resort: groups, not parties
The resort’s aurora evenings are built for groups of up to about twenty and carry no private option on their pages. That suits a family happy to share the fire; it is not what this page is about.
One private night: Levi
The private evenings sold with a price are 46 minutes away. The five-hour hunt by four-by-four for up to six refunds half the price if the sky stays empty,4 the only one of the three that pays anything back for a sky with no aurora in it. All three are compared, with the others sold there, on private northern lights tour in Levi; the shared evenings in Muonio are on northern lights in Muonio.
Questions people ask
Is a private night worth it for just two of us?
Only if privacy is the point. The private prices are for the whole group, so two people pay the same 684 or 750 euros as a full car. Two places on the shared three-hour campfire evening in Levi cost 184 euros at its published price of 92 a head. The private night buys you the route, the timing and the guide to yourselves, not a better sky.
What is the difference between the three Levi private nights?
Length and purpose. The longest runs all night, about eight hours with no distance limit, for up to eight people at 1,700 euros. The five-hour hunt by four-by-four takes up to six at 684 euros. The two-hour evening at 750 euros for up to four is built around a professional photo shoot.
What do the week-long private trips include besides the aurora?
One company's winter weeks are built around snowshoeing in the national park, a husky safari and ice fishing in a heated tent, with its guides tracking the aurora on the evenings; the other describes its weeks as huskies, snowshoes, northern lights and wilderness, for at most six guests. Neither prints a price on the pages read here, so ask for the week's cost and cancellation terms.