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Reindeer safari price in Ruka: what a family pays

A dark reindeer with large velvet antlers lowering its head to feed beside a pile of logs

Illustration photo: a reindeer feeding, not at the Ruka farms.

Lapland Handbook Staff How we research this

The short answer

If you can get to a farm and have your own winter clothing, the winter village's cabin trip and the Kujala farm's sleigh ride give the longest ride for the least money. Pay a safari company only for the car and the outfit, and check whether a teenager counts as a child before you add up the total.

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.

Lammintupa, 1.5 kmKujala, 1.5 kmRuka Adventures, 300 mRukapalvelu, 1.5 km
Adult €70 – the lowest adult price €83 €98 €160
Child €55 (1 to 12) €52 (2 to 12) €68 (4 to 11) €129 (4 to 11)
Family of four €250 – the lowest total for two adults and two children €270 €332 €578
Sleigh ride 1.5 km 1.5 km 300 m 1.5 km
Car and outfit Neither Neither Both Both

Highlighted figures are the best in that row: the lowest adult price and the lowest total for two adults and two children. Per person unless a total. A family of four is two adults and two children inside each seller's own child band; a teenager may count as an adult.

Where these figures come from
  • Lammintupa, 1.5 km: The winter village's cabin trip: a sleigh ride of a kilometre and a half, feeding and sausages; your own clothing.
  • Kujala, 1.5 km: The old farm's sleigh ride along the river and a visit to the herd; you drive to the farm in your own clothes.
  • Ruka Adventures, 300 m: A short sleigh ride at a farm, with pick-up from Ruka hotels and a safari outfit in the price.
  • Rukapalvelu, 1.5 km: The long sleigh ride with a car from Ruka, a winter outfit and sandwiches by the fire.

Around Ruka the price of a reindeer outing tracks what comes with it more than the length of the ride.

The same ride, two prices

Lammintupa and the Kujala farm both sell a sleigh ride of a kilometre and a half for €70 and €83 an adult, and a family of four pays €250 or €270. Rukapalvelu sells the same distance for €160 an adult, and the €90 difference pays for a car from Ruka and a winter outfit.1

A short ride can cost more

Ruka Adventures’ farm visit has a sleigh ride of 300 metres, a fifth of the others, yet costs €98 an adult, because it collects you from your hotel and lends a safari outfit.2 If you have a car and warm clothes, that is money you need not spend.

Which outing suits whom is on the best reindeer tour in Ruka, and the farms are introduced on reindeer farms in Ruka.

Tours you can book

Questions people ask

Does a teenager pay the child price?

It depends on the seller. At the Kujala farm the child band ends at twelve and teenagers from thirteen pay the adult price; Lammintupa's ends at twelve too, Rukapalvelu's and Ruka Adventures' at eleven. A family with a fourteen-year-old should price the outing as three adults and one child, which changes which one is cheapest.

Is the booking platform price the same?

Not always. The Kujala farm's morning feeding is €35 on GetYourGuide against €27 in the resort's own shop. The platform gives free cancellation until 24 hours before; the farm itself keeps half the price only if you cancel within a day, so for this farm the shop costs less on nearly the same terms.

What is the cheapest way to meet reindeer at all?

A farm visit without the long ride. Kujala's hour at the farm costs €27 for an adult and €16 for a child, and Erola's forty minutes at the reindeer fence €30 and €18. Both leave you to arrive by your own means, and both are the simplest way for small children to feed the animals without sitting in a sleigh.

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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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