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Snowmobile safari prices in Saariselkä, by the hour you actually ride

A snowmobile rider in a red jacket leaning into a turn on a snowy track

Illustration photo: a snowmobile race, not in Saariselkä.

Lapland Handbook Staff How we research this

The short answer

Judge a snowmobile ticket by the riding it guarantees, not by its length or its price. The short tours cost the most per hour on the machine; a half-day tour that promises a long ride costs far less per hour even though the ticket is dearer. Then check the excess, because it differs by hundreds of euros between operators and can be reduced on some tours for a small fee.

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.

One hourResort, 2 hoursResort, 4 hoursTundra, 3.5 hours
Ticket €94 – the lowest ticket price €94.34 €120.84 €199
Riding About 45 min At least 45 min At least 2.5 h 1.5–2 h
Per hour of riding €125 €126 €48 – the lowest price per hour of riding €100–133
Excess €990 €1,500 €1,500 €950 – the lowest excess a driver can owe

Highlighted figures are the best in that row: the lowest ticket price, the lowest price per hour of riding and the lowest excess a driver can owe. The resort's prices are the lowest it shows, marked 'from'. Its riding times are minimums, so its hourly figures are the most it can cost; the tundra tour's range follows its own estimate of the riding.

Where these figures come from
  • One hour: An hour-long taster from the village with about 45 minutes of driving, two to a machine.
  • Resort, 2 hours: Two hours from the resort south of the village, with at least 45 minutes of riding.
  • Resort, 4 hours: Four hours from the same resort, with at least two and a half hours of riding and soup for lunch.
  • Tundra, 3.5 hours: Three and a half hours with an hour and a half to two of driving and snacks by a fire.

A snowmobile ticket in Saariselkä pays for the whole outing, but only part of it is spent riding.

The short tours

The one-hour tour from the village gives about 45 minutes of driving,1 and the two-hour tour from Kakslauttanen, south of the village, promises at least the same.2 Their tickets are almost identical, and so is what an hour on the machine costs.

The longer tours

Kakslauttanen’s four-hour tour promises at least two and a half hours of riding for a ticket only a little dearer than its two-hour one, which makes it the cheapest riding here by a wide margin. The tundra tour gives an hour and a half to two hours, and per hour it costs about as much as the short tours.3 The resort also asks the most of a driver who damages a machine.

What the tours are like is compared on the best snowmobile tour in Saariselkä.

Tours you can book

Questions people ask

Is the waiver worth buying?

Where it is sold, usually yes. On the one-hour tour a waiver of 20 euros lowers what a driver can owe to 150 euros, and on the tundra tour 50 euros lowers it to 200. The resort sells none on its page. On both tours it is an option chosen when booking, so decide before you pay.

What does it cost to ride alone?

Two people normally share a machine and each pays a full ticket. The tundra tour sells solo driving as an add-on of 50 euros. The resort sells a snowmobile for one adult as a separate fare whose price its page does not print. Riding alone also means driving the whole time, with no turn as a passenger.

Is anything else to pay once we are there?

Clothing is included on all four: winter clothing on the one-hour tour, thermal clothing and driving gear at the resort, and winter adventure gear on the tundra tour. Transfers differ. The resort's run only from and to the resort, while the tundra tour collects from a list of hotels and charges extra for Ivalo.

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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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