Our most popular 3-night Northern Lights break staying at the exclusive 7-bedroom Máttaráhkká Northern Lights Lodge - a real 'home away from home'.
The Northern Lights Special Holiday
This is the perfect break for clients wishing to chase the northern lights and enjoy some of the best arctic experiences with carefully selected guides who are experts in their field.
This action-packed break includes personal snowmobile and husky experiences, a visit to the Original Icehotel and nights set aside for aurora chasing with guides who know where to go to get the best chance of seeing them.
Overview
Highlights
- 3 Nights in Exclusive Máttaráhkká Northern Lights Lodge
- Drive your own Husky Team
- Snowmobile Adventure
- Northern Lights chase
- Aurora Chase in a Minibus
- Visit to the original ICEHOTEL
What’s included
- Transfers to/from Kiruna Airport
- 3 Nights at Máttaráhkká Northern Lights Lodge
- Lodge Room based on a Full Board Basis including Winter Kit Hire
- Mt Ednamvarri Northern Lights Experience
- Dogsledding Ride with a Guide
- Visit to the Ice Hotel
- Views over Lapland with Snowmobile
- Aurora Chase by Minivan
A note on flights
While flights are not included in the holiday price, our team will happily provide a quote and arrange them for you. Simply ask one of our Travel Experts for details of the available options.
Day by Day Itinerary
Fly to Swedish Lapland, Welcome to Máttaráhkká Northern Lights Lodge and Northern Lights excursion
Fly to Kiruna in Swedish Lapland where you meet your transfer to Andreas Mikko’s exclusive Máttaráhkká Northern Lights Lodge, a fantastic base for your northern lights holiday.
This wonderful Lodge situated with far reaching views towards the Abisko Alps is the perfect base for a short break. With only seven rooms it has a ‘home away from home’ feel and has excellent activities right from the doorstep.
Mikko and his family will be your hosts and guides and go out of their way to make you feel comfortable. They will run through your itinerary and will act as your point of reference.
You will also have complimentary arctic winter clothing issued to you for the whole of your stay at the lodge.
Enjoy a magical evening at the lodge with dinner in the tipi located outside the beautiful Lodge Máttaráhkka. When the time is right, you’ll travel by snowmobile to the top of Mt. Ednavaara which offers great views over the mountain range away from the light pollution.
The guide will bring a camera and takes pictures throughout the entire evening for your memories.
Dog Sledding, ICE HOTEL Visit, and Hot Tub
After breakfast enjoy a ride on the sled with the guide driving the dog sled through a winter wonderland in the taiga forest.
Halfway through the tour, Swedish Fika is offered over the crackling fire in the tipi located middle of the forest
After a fast-paced dog sled ride through the forest, the guide leaves you at the icehotel, where you can feast on a Swedish buffet of dishes and experience the magical original ICHOTEL made of snow and ice as well as the revolutionary ICEHOTEL 365.
Admire the spectacular individual Art Suites designed by leading artists from all around the world, and take a cocktail in the unique ice glasses at the sculptured ice bar.
In the evening, enjoy a relaxing soak in the hot tub before tucking into a lovely 3-course dinner.
Snowmobile Adventure with Ice Fishing, and an evening Chasing Aurora
Enjoy a half-day unique and well-executed snowmobile safari cruising around Lapland by snowmobile.
As the only company in Kiruna, we offer day trips by snowmobile that take you to the edge of the Arctic tundra and up above the tree line to Lapland viewpoint which offers an amazing view over a pristine Arctic wilderness. We take a short break on a frozen lake where we brew some coffee over the crackling fire and enjoy some Swedish Fika; here you also have the chance to try out some traditional ice fishing.
Back at the lodge, we serve you a 2-course lunch
Your evening begins around the fire in the tipi next to the lodge.
After enjoying a good BBQ meal we hit the road with a warm and comfortable minivan driving you around calm roads around Lapland to the very best viewing points to experience the magical northern lights.
Airport Transfer and Flight Home
Enjoy breakfast before your airport transfer.
Why not extend your break to see Stockholm, Sweden’s picturesque capital city.
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Where You'll Stay
Máttaráhkká Northern Lights Lodge
We are proud to offer this small intimate lodge, run by one of our long standing partners, Andreas Mikko, for exclusive use by our clients.
This 7 room intimate lodge is situated in a super location on a slight elevation with magnificent views across the arctic tundra to the Abisko alps. The emphasis at the lodge is on two elements, Sami culture and ensuring you have the best chance of seeing the northern lights.
This small intimate lodge used to be a Sami handicraft centre until the owners had the idea to turn it into an exclusive retreat. With only 7 bedrooms and an open plan lounge and dining room, the emphasis is on relaxing in a cosy environment. The rooms have a downstairs en-suite room with a staircase leading to a loft sitting room.
If you are a group of 8 or more friends or family traveling together and wish to have the lodge privately please let us know. This is a great way of celebrating a big birthday or wedding anniversary
The lodge has a fabulous sauna and a very unusual northern lights hot tub on the roof where you can star gaze or hunt for the Aurora. (This carries an extra charge).
Other benefits of a stay here mean that you can snowmobile straight from your doorstep into the Arctic wilderness.
Evenings are focused on good food, relaxation and the Northern Lights so if you are looking for a ‘home away from home’ experience then look no further.
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See what our clients say
1. Gourmet Cabins was excellent and Johan was a friendly and knowledgeable host. The food, cabins, hot tub and sauna were brilliant.
2. Dog sledge was a fantastic experience and we were given the opportunity to drive our own sledge
3. Snow Mobile – really got off the beaten track and into the spectacular mountains
4. Saw the Northern Lights twice in two days. There is no description that can really do them justice
An excellent holiday which was enjoyed by all. The super jeep ride on the second day to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano was memorable and thanks to our driver Margaret who proved to be a really good guide. We thoroughly enjoyed the facilities in the hotel Ranga. The staff were very helpful and we managed to see the Northern Lights. The Hotel Reykjavik Centrum was very nice with amazingly helpful staff. All in all, the whole holiday was brilliant.
We had the most fabulous time and everything worked like clockwork. The guides were extremely knowledgeable and extremely competent. The food was excellent and the experiences, especially Husky Homes, were brilliant. We saw the aurora lights at the mountain top in Abisko where the photography tour will be an enduring memory of a wonderful time. I would very much recommend Weekend a la Carte as a proficient tour operator.
Thank you for arranging a fabulous holiday, we had a really enjoyable time and would love to return in the future. Hotel Ranga is a lovely place to stay and the owner greeted guests in the restaurant, which was an unexpected welcoming touch. We didn’t see the Northern Lights due to the weather and the trip to the Eyjafjallajokull glacier and volcano was substituted by an excursion to Thorsmork, also due to the weather, which we thoroughly enjoyed; the brochure description doesn’t do it justice. We found Iceland and the people there really charismatic. Although the wind and snow cut short the amount of travelling we could do, we still covered a reasonable amount of what we wanted to see and our appetites are whetted for a return, perhaps in Spring or Summer. We found a couple of great places to eat near the Hotel in Reykjavik. Messin does tasty fish dishes and the Icelandic Street Food restaurant was excellent, offering simple but hearty soups with refills included in the price – great value.
Cannot thank this company enough. Our break to Iceland was the second time we’ve let them organise everything for us and once again they didn’t disappoint. Everything ran seamlessly and the organised tours were wonderful. This company knows what they are doing. If you want to experience the geysers, the volcano, the northern lights and all the other exciting things that Iceland has to offer then this is the company to use.
Superb holiday to Iceland, well organised, advice regarding trips informative and far exceeded our expectations (Glaciers and ice Cave) run by South Coast. Hotel Ranga is a lovely hotel, perfect to see Northern Lights (which we did see on our 3rd night), very comfortable, food excellent, staff helpful and informative. SouthCoast Adventure tour company were excellent, guides knowledgeable, and clearly very experienced.
Brilliant short break. Hotel Ranga was lovely, excellent food. Managed to see the Northern Lights as well! Iceland on the whole was quite expensive but a lovely place to visit, the people were very friendly.
Dear Abigail, We have safely returned from Iceland and we wanted to say a huge and sincere thank you for all the plans that you put into place to make this one of the most memorable holidays we have ever had. It was simply beautiful each and every day. The cabin was idyllic and so cosy and warm. The tour guides were so knowledgeable and friendly and the scenery was breathtaking. All the arrangements worked so well and we will remember the trip for a long time to come.
Thank you once again.