Best Ivalo Hotels

I like this 40-year-old hotel very much. The service attitude is good. The facilities are worthy of its age. It is not very old to use. The breakfast is quite satisfactory. The bedding is not comfortable.

Absolutely amazing hotel, everything was highly satisfying and exceptional. The apartment is clean, spacious and modern, features a very well equipped kitchen, a private sauna, a great sized bathroom, a nicely furnished living room with a dining area and a separate bedroom. We liked that here are enough place for your stuff as there are spacious wardrobes in the apartment, so you could feel yourself totally at home, as you don't need to dress up from your luggage. Heat was perfect, we never felt cold. Bed is very comfy and has a great size. The area is quiet, calm and yet centered, easy to reach anything by walk. Last, but not least the staff was very nice and friendly all the time, they helped us whenever we had a question and never had to wait even for a minute at the reception to get someone who could help us. I have stayed at most of the worldwide known hotel chains and this hotel has definitely overperformed many of the big names. Would love to come back and I wish we could stay here for weeks or even for months as well. :)

A super spacious chalet, a wood stove that warms you up well, access to wood in a small cabin opposite the chalet. The bedding is average. The chalet has a very pleasant sauna. The location of the chalet is top, it is in the middle of the woods and 50m fr

We were truly impressed with our stay!! The hotel is at a perfectly beautiful and quiet spot on lake inari, with some elevation around the archipelago so you can see some nice views by walking or snowshoeing. We stayed at one of the Panorama Log Cabins - it's totally worth the splurge! Having your sauna was very nice (also works well as a dry room, even when it's switched off), but I especially enjoyed the hot tub overseeing the lake. In the late afternoon when the light was magical and the lake was quiet, I could've stayed there forever. We had a corner room (504) and enjoyed lots of privacy - we slept with the curtains all open and the moonshine against the glistening snow was beautiful beyond words. The bed was so comfortable, we rested incredibly well in them. FOOD was generally excellent. Breakfast didn't have a lot of daily variation, but I love the spread and can have it every day (literally did). Lunch is also a buffet and dinner was a semi-buffet. I love the food, seriously, way better than Savoy in Helsinki for example - but I have to say, it's almost always fish or vegetarian for the dinner mains options, and for my non-seafood eating husband, he was craving for some proper meat by D4. Was a bit disappointed not having any reindeer option for dinner though! The GUIDES were all amazing - a special shoutout to Pippa and Aida who took such good care of us, and their love for the nature was infectious. I lost a part of my camera during snowshoeing, miraculously Mattie found it for me later! I enjoyed all the activities - ok maybe not so much aurora snowmobiling (though we got to see the aurora there). My helmet's visor were all frosted up, and through the dense fog on the lake at night, I could hardly see anything while speeding (ok maybe not speeding) at ~40km/hr. It was a bloody cold night as well! We haven't done any of these winter outdoor activities before, so it was all very interesting. And even though it might sound short (2 hrs for cross country ski and ice fishing) but it was enough. For the longer activities (snowmobile adventure, snowshoe), the guide will cook lunch for you, was very lovely to sit around a campfire while they do so. And these are not simple lunches, you'll have a hot sandwich, a salmon soup, some dessert, coffee or hot chocolate! Snowmobile adventure took us to a little frozen harbour and we met some wild reindeers on the way. It was also lovely to meet the huskies and the baby reindeers as well. Ok about the aurora. I guess it's all down to luck in the end. Just one comment that I wish they have more aurora hunt by car options so we could choose to join when the forecast looks good but the lake was foggy. Oh and if you're deciding between different wilderness hotels - if you're not travelling with children, I'd choose Nangu over Nellim. It's a much more beautiful hotel building and location. Last, don't be too anxious about what to wear. Obviously you bring your own base layers and base layer glov