Family-friendly: Northern Lights Adventure From Rovaniemi

We didnt get to see the lights but it was still a good time.

This was a total Rip Off. All we did was drive around Rovaniemi. Walk through a forest AND the ONLY light we saw was the firelight inside a tepee. What a waste of time and money. PLEASE BOOK WITH SOMEONE ELSE - who is prepared to drive out of town to show you the lights.

This was a total waste of time and money. It was not a northern lights tour but a forest tour. Total rip off. PLEASE DO NOT BOOK!!!! Try other providers. All we did was drive around Rovaniemi, walked through a forest tour to a tepee where the INLY light we saw was the firelight inside. What a waste of three hours. Shame on you Wild About Lapland!!😖

We had the best evening out watching the Northern Lights with our tour guide Lola. Memories of a lifetime! We were brought to an amazing area which was about 45mins outside of Rovaniemi. We had more than enough time to watch the Northern Lights. We toasted marshmallows and were offered to cook sausages too! Lola was amazing with the kids and gave us loads of information. Thank you!

We made a last minute decision to book this tour a few hours in advance on Christmas night as it was our last night in Lapland and we hadn’t yet seen the northern lights. I was hesitant as the activity forecast wasn’t high but I’m so glad we took a chance as we had a brilliant time. Our tour guide Atanas took us to a remote location on a lake and we were able to see the northern nights as soon as we got there. Atanas took some professional photos for us even though photography wasn’t included with this tour. My children are aged 9 and 11 and loved hearing Atanas explain how the auroras occur and he showed them how to make fire using flint. They enjoyed hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows in the warm tipi while learning about Finnish traditions and telling stories. They went sledding on the snow at the location. This tour was a highlight of our trip and would have been fun even if we weren’t lucky enough to see the northern lights. Thank you Wild about Lapland

We had such a magical time. It was peaceful, private and although we didn't see the northern lights due to the cloud cover, our wonderful guide, Remi made it very special for us. Our kids loved making a snowman and cooking sausages and marshmellows on the fire. Other than meeting Santa, it was the highlight of our trip. Thanks again Remi.

Even though we didn’t see the lights we had an amazing time ! The night we went on our trip it was snowing with complete cloud cover so we knew setting out that it was unlikely we would see much . Our Spanish guide ( so sorry we forgot your name ) was so lovely and really entertained us ( especially our 7 year old ). We had a great time climbing and sliding down a huge hill . Afterwards it was into the yurt for sausages and marshmallows on the fire. It was a small group and we all had a great time !

Alberto was our guide. It was cloudy and we were about to cancel the tour, but we thought it was worth trying. Alberto drove us to the teepee in the middle of nowhere, tought the children how to light a fire with flint, and played with them in the snow for more than an hour making a snow slide on the nearby embankment. We tasted Finnish sausages cooked on the open fire, and of course some marshmallows. Alberto was telling us a lot about plants, reindeer and Finnish culture. We didn't see northern lights but had a lovely evening anyway thanks to Alberto's ability to adapt.

Unfortunately, this tour was very disappointing. Based on weather forecasts showing heavy cloud cover and snow, it was clear in advance that there was little to no chance of seeing the Northern Lights. Despite this, the tour still went ahead with no offer of a refund, reschedule, or even a partial discount. I would like to emphasise that our guide, Hannah, was professional, friendly, and did her best throughout the evening — this is absolutely not a reflection on her efforts. The disappointment lies solely with the organisation’s decision to proceed under conditions where the main attraction was extremely unlikely to be visible. The lack of flexibility or customer consideration felt unfair and left us feeling taken advantage of. I would not recommend this tour unless you are comfortable paying full price despite very low chances of the advertised experience occurring.

We joined the family-friendly Northern Lights tour in November with Laura and Jeremy, and I honestly don’t have the words to describe how special they made this evening. They were so warm, attentive, and genuinely caring with every single person on the tour. They connected with our children in such a natural and kind way that it felt as if we were out in nature with close friends rather than guides. The fact that they both spoke German was such a gift for our kids — it helped them feel confident, included, and excited from the start. We didn’t see any Northern Lights that night, but it truly didn’t matter. What we will remember forever is the magical time around the campfire on the frozen lake, laughing, the Snow!!, listening to stories, roasting snacks, and watching the quiet Arctic night around us. That moment alone exceeded everything we had hoped for. Because of Laura and Jeremy, this became the highlight of our whole trip — and the memory our children keep talking about more than anything else. They already said they want to come back just to do another adventure with Laura and Jeremy. And honestly, we feel exactly the same. We’re already dreaming about our next trip. Thank you, Wild About Lapland — and from the bottom of our hearts, thank you Laura and Jeremy, for giving us an experience we will carry with us for a lifetime.

We had the best experience on our trip with the 3 guides Berta, Adela and Marta. They were brilliant with my children, were able to answer any question we had about the northern lights and took the most amazing photos of us. I highly recommend this trip

Vince was a wonderful and knowledgeable guide. After setting us up with some great photos, he played with the kids with the sleds so that we could take even more photos. It was the perfect length for my 5 and 8 year old and highly recommend to others.

Excellent guide, Tim. Good for small children and knowledgeable guides. We found the Northern lights :) Cooked sausages and tour was very well organised.

We had an amazing time on this family tour! Ou host was super friendly and made the experience enjoyable. The transport was very comfortable, and we even got to catch a glimpse of the aurora, though it wasn’t very strong. Overall, it was a memorable and well-organized tour, my 6 year old had an enjoyable experience. Highly recommend!”

Adrian was excellent. Tour was gd and northern lights were beautiful. kids loved the experience. what an adventure for whole family

This company is great. I also went with another company that was really bad. Our first guide Tim was dedicated, hard-working, and showed us how to make designs with the red light in a photo. My my second guide Aly was energetic, personable, which they all were also, but she was extra fun, and took excellent photos of our wonderful viewing of the Aurora activity that night. My other guides Gerard and Adrian also were super fantastic. The company is helpful during the day and by email and staffed by friendly and kind people.

We looked forward to this trip for a while year and were left bitterly disappointed, each of us for different reasons. My husband was enthusiastic and asking lots of questions and was told to stop asking questions until the others in the tour were picked up. Then the driving of the guide was so bad and dangerous, always swerving onto the other side of the road and if talking to the person next to him (a trainee) he would be looking at him and not the road. When we arrived at the destination we realised we would not see anything as it was a completely full moon. These kind of tours should not take place when there is a full moon! Of course the moon cancels out the darkness required to see anything..and yet the guide insisted there were lights and insisted we have photos taken with them. The sky was absolutely grey and cloudy. He became irritated when we didn't want photos taken. Of course in the photos you can see green due to the special filters. Wow. The guide hardly told us anything interesting if at all in lieu of not seeing anything green. At least he could have done that. Bah.

Christoph was a great guide. We went as a family along with him and he was extremely patient, friendly and helpful. The pick-up and drop were on point, the company was prompt with the bookings and the response.

This tour was absolute chaos. We booked for 7pm lapland BBQ northen lights tour. We were then sent an e mail to meet at 7.30. We were told to wait inside and someone would shout for us. When I asked what was happening after 7.30 and still waiting we were told to wait outside. Many many tours were being taken, many tour leaders not shouting out which tours they were taking so we were so confused. The 7pm tour was still with us. By chance I asked someone and he posted us in the right direction. We all got taken to a bus at 20 00, there was not enough space for everyone, a small girl had to sit on her mums lap. ? Are there no safety laws ? Then randomly a load of people were taken off the bus, dont know why. We were still sat on the bus at 8.30 and getting reports that the northern lights were happening right now. I saw mixed reviews pre booking and hoped what I read before that it was unorganised that this didn't happen often and might be rare so i risked booking with you. I see your company keep apologising on reviews saying the same apology. Rather than apologise why don't you change your process. One easy solution is have a sign with the name and time of tour on it. People then go and stand by that sign and get taken. I have never seen such chaos. In the chaos we took a wrong person and had to stop the coach to let him off. We chose this tour as family friendly, a set good set off time of 7pm and a 3 hour experience felt perfect to be back by 10pm. We ended up not leaving until 8.35 and returning 00.35. The guides were friendly and quirky once we got there which was nice, but we had no information about what was happening throughout. The Tee pees were so cramped with people scrambling to get sausages and marshamallows and squeezed by a fire. I didnt bother as too claustrophobic. We did see the northern lights which was amazing but felt this experience stressed us out so much it dampened the feeling when we saw the them. Would never use this company again

We have been on a lot of activities and trips and the guides are always super nice and polite. But not this oneon our Northern lights tour on October 30th 2023. I felt very uncomfortable druing the whole tour. Well, the guide was not the typical, friendly outgoing guide. He didn't introduce himself properly nor asked who we were. No interest in us at all. At the beginning he answered my questions with "I don' t know" or some cynical answers. He was only interested in the other family / mother, asked her a lot of questions and ignored us (our family) completely. At the beginning he was outspoken impolite to us. Later it got a bit better. At the beginning my daughter and I sat in the front of the bus (out of politeness to the other family of four, the front is only 1.5 seats;) without explanation the Guide told my daughter (14) to sit in the back and the other mother had to sit next to me (very uncomfortable with a stranger on such restricted space). And we couldn't understand why. My two children also commented later on his strange behaviour. Later on they were allowed to sit in the front together so that I hadn't to squeeze in with the other mother but they were worried because afterwards they told me that the Guide looked through the camera while driving and drove on the left side of the road. On the whole, we saw a little bit of northern lights, but the feeling of not being welcome, or annoying to the guide, spoilt the experience.

We did the tour in search of the aurora suitable for children. It was all great and exciting. Our guide Linnea was nothing short of wonderful! He explained everything about the Northern Lights and legends and finally helped us with photos that didn't look good with our cells. All very well organized... Thank you!!! This evening will always remain in our hearts...

Extraordinary adventure! Thank you very much to our guide who thought of everything for our comfort and that of the children. I definitely recommend 🤩

We had booked a Northern Lights tour of 4 hours. This was really great. We saw the Northern Lights in 3 different places and even when we were on our way back we stopped at a 4th place to see the Northern Lights here. Here we even saw the Northern Lights moving all the time. Our guide (nino) was also really great. He took the most beautiful pictures and tried hard to see the best northern lights. A day later we received all the pictures that were taken with the camera. Big compliments, this tour is definitely recommended.

We made this excursion in really bad weather conditions, - 35 and kp 1 aurora. our Guide Laura has committed to the maximum Clear skies and nun moon, .unfortunately we could not see her... Despite this he lit a bonfire in a kota in the middle of nowhere and made us cook sausages on the fire entertained us, took some beautiful photos, worked hard!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Incredible aurora hunting experience from Rovaniemi. We booked a private tour for more freedom and the best surprise was our guide Jeremy. This guide was fantastic to explain the peculiarities of the region, the Northern Lights phenomenon and many other exciting information about Finland. And the highlight of the show was the appearance of magnificent aurora borealis! Thank you Wild About Lapland for this unforgettable experience but especially Jeremy that I absolutely recommend!

Great experience in the cold of Lapland. The aurora borealis were not there but the team knew how to make us live a magical moment in the snow during photo shoots then in a lavvu where we roasted makkara around a fire.

Well organized excursion. Launched to 8. At the end there were campfires and a sausage for barbecue. Our guide was very accommodating. We were also lucky enough to see the Northern Lights

At Wild about Lapland we have booked 4 excursions: family friendly Northern Lights, reindeer ride in the evening, huskies 10 km and snowshoes / ice fishing. Everything was perfectly arranged. We were picked up neatly on time, friendly guides and we had very nice excursions! Also lucky enough to see the Northern Lights. We had booked everything six months in advance. In the meantime, I have been in touch a few times via email because I had some questions. I always got a very quick and neat answer. We recommend Wild about Lapland!

Due to the overcast sky we could not see the dawn but our guide explained many interesting things and we lit the fire in a typical tent

A great and successful trip with 8 participants plus guide Rouven (spelling?). The group size is - as always with Wild About Lapland - to be emphasized, because in a small group of max. 8 people plus guide it is much more personal and individual (no mass processing, as we experienced with another tour operator with 20 to 40 people [booked through the travel agency]). Rouven drove with us for quite a while and kept checking via app where the northern lights could be seen (it was already very cloudy). Then he "just stopped", we got out and hey presto, there was really beautiful northern lights right above us! Since our guide also had a very good camera including a tripod, wonderful pictures were taken, which we later received free of charge by email. Afterwards we sat in a tent by the campfire, Rouven told us one or two stories and we grilled and ate sausages together. We were also able to ask questions throughout the entire trip, which were answered openly and in a friendly manner. A really very personal and friendly tour. Thank you so much for the great experience!!! We would/will be happy to go on tour with this operator again at any time. Thank you for your extraordinary commitment, starting with the reception in the local office (including your dog Duke, who is just so cuddly) and before and during the tours - that is really remarkable!