Our Classic Ice Break

DAY 1 UK – STOCKHOLM 

Scheduled SAS flight to Stockholm. Overnight at Hotel Esplanade; small, discrete and on the waterfront. Explore the cobbled alleyways of Gamla Stan, dine on scented reindeer or just relax and dream about the adventure ahead.

DAY 2 STOCKHOLM – ICEHOTEL 

Breakfast in the hotel’s art nouveau breakfast room before late morning flight to Kiruna and transfer to Jukkasjarvi and the ICEHOTEL. On arrival, check in and lunch at the local Inn, after which collect thermal clothing and take a guided tour of the ICEHOTEL and its environs. Later, start the evening with a guided snowmobile tour through the forest with the possibility of the Northern Lights in the night sky above. Traditional Sami soup at a wilderness encampment before returning to Jukkasjarvi. Then, it’s into the “Absolut Ice Bar” to enjoy a special drink (payable locally) – a “Northern Lights” or a “Wolf’s Paw” – before retiring to your ICEHOTEL room for the most unusual night of your life.

DAY 3 ICEHOTEL 

Wake up to a hot cloudberry juice, take a sauna (optional) and breakfast across at the Inn. Afterwards, you can enjoy an optional reindeer sled safari through the forest and across the fells to a “Lavvo” (tent) for a traditional Sami lunch by an open fire before returning to Jukkasjarvi. In the afternoon, you can choose further optional excursions either by husky or snowmobile. The final night of your “Classic Ice Break” is spent either in a Kaamos, Nordic or Northern Lights room. The local Inn serves Lapp specialities and has both table d’hôte and à la carte menus.

DAY 4 ICEHOTEL – UK

Breakfast at the Inn. Morning free for a brief walk around the village, with its traditional Sami buildings

and church, before transfer to Kiruna airport and return flight(s) via Stockholm to the UK.