Santa Claus Secret Forest - Joulukka, Lapland, Finland

5Dreamer83445 5:00 PM Dec 19, 2021

Interactive and magical experience 5*
We took our children ages 4 & 8 here , we booked on for the Toy Factory experience and had the most magical time, we booked a private experience and so were collected from our hotel by an elf Peppi who was delightful over a 40 minute + journey to Joulukka she knew lots of details about our kids and they just fell in love with her -she had us all playing games and singing, then we arrived at the forest to meet another elf Sweetie who was so cheerful and sweet, i won’t spoil the surprise but the toy factory experience housed in one of the beautifully designed cabins in the forest was wonderful- the 2 elves were with us the whole time and they ask the children to take part in about 8 different little magical activities as part of the toy factory and they were blown away by it all. it was so fun and special, with a keepsake coin to take home then we came upon a room with a door that magically opened and there was santa himself he was delightful, and they were mesmerised - he told them a story about his ‘ childhood ‘ and knew details from home about our children and spoke about their christmas wishes and the importance of kindness and gave them a cute christmas gift. When it was time to leave he asked if we would like photo outside and we walked down to the frozen lake 1 min walk and got the most stunning pictures with him and the gorgeous elves. The lake itself was just mesmerising too. Time to say goodbye to the forest and Sweetie came in the private taxi minibus to entertain us and we were drop us off at our chosen drop off point which was Santa park and we went straight in there and really enjoyed all the experiences there, no need to queue for santa as we had just seen him but it was all wonderful the best day of our trip!

5Jennifer L 5:00 PM Dec 16, 2021

Wonderful experience for three generations
We visited as a group of six - two kids age 5 and 9, parents and grand parents. We were picked up by Twinky at our hotel. His costume was amazing and the kids were thrilled. We then drove some distance through a forest and arrived outside the command centre. We were split into groups and waited our turn to go in. Elves entertained the kids with games and sleds and toasting marshmallows in a wigwam with an open fire. We all participated in the fun. The command center was really well done with a reindeer radar, kindometer and a magic post office. We then visited the big man himself who was excellent. The kids were mesmerised. Then off to elf school and gingerbread decorating in another beautiful warm cabin. All in all a wonderful trip that was worth the €1k cost for our party. We would highly recommend to anyone considering it.