• A professional and qualified tour leader
• Snowshoes and poles
• Single timed airport transfers on arrival & departure
• All accommodation as described
• All meals
• All land transport required by the itinerary
• All activities/excursions/entrance fees mentioned except where specified as ‘optional’

• Travel Insurance
• Optional extra activities
• Miscellaneous expenses - souvenirs and drinks etc.

The group will transfer together from Kuusamo Airport to our cabin accommodation on the evening of Day 1 of the Land Only itinerary.

The transfer is timed to coincide with the arrival of the Finnair flight from London Heathrow Airport.

On the last day of the Land Only itinerary, there will be a single transfer back to Kuusamo Airport timed for the check in of the early afternoon return Finnair flight to London.

Hotel contact details and an emergency number will be provided with your booking confirmation.

All meals are included in the holiday price.

Water is drinkable from the taps on this holiday. Please fill your personal bottles for your day in the morning. We do not encourage the purchasing of single use plastic bottles.

Breakfast is usually served around 8am and will be taken at the cabins and will consist of bread, cheese, ham, porridge, muesli, yoghurt, coffee and tea. Lunch will be served around midday and will be taken seated around a fireplace on the route and will consist of warm soup, bread, ham, cheese, sausages, coffee, tea and chocolate / biscuits. Dinner is the main meal of the day and will again be served at the cabin by our guide around 7/8pm. There is usually meat or fish, vegetables, fresh salad, bread and dessert. We will usually enjoy a hot drink and snack on returning to the cabin each day, but during the snowshoeing days there is no other food served except the lunch, so it’s recommended to bring some of your own favourite snacks (chocolate, muesli bars etc.) from home. You will be able to make your own hot drinks at the cabins. Beer (2€ per can) and wine (10€ per bottle) is available to purchase.

Special meals are available on request. Please inform any your dietary requirements at the time of booking. Meals are carefully planned ahead of time and it is possible to cater for most dietary requirements if informed in advance.

Whilst we can cater for vegetarians, albeit sometimes with a more limited choice, we cannot always provide special diets.  Due to the nature of some of the trips that we operate and the countries in which we operate them, it can be very hard (and sometimes impossible) to cater for a wide range of dietary choices and you may have to supplement your diet with food/snacks from home.  If you have specific dietary requirements please do speak to our sales team and they will be able to advise you whether or not we will be able to offer your specific choice.  Please note that we are unable to provide separate menus and cannot accept liability for any problems arising from special dietary requirements or intolerances.

We will spend 4 nights at a comfortable, spacious, lakeside cabin base, with multiple bedrooms and a separate dining room and kitchen. The cabin base is centrally heated. Accommodation here will be in bunked rooms, either twin share or in segregated rooms of up to 3. At the base cabin we will have shared shower/bathroom/toilet facilities.

During our 2 night expedition we will stay in smaller, cosy, wilderness cabins, with no electricity and heated by wood stoves. At the wilderness cabins we will sleep in non-segregated bunked rooms of up to 4 people. The toilets are in a separate building. Though showers are not available at the wilderness cabins (all water must be fetched from the well!), it will be possible to wash in the sauna. Though the bathroom facilities can appear basic, overnighting in the heart of the wilderness and staying in a traditional forest cabin, more than makes up for the lack of hotel facilities.

FINNISH SAUNA
Saunas are a way of life in Finland.The sauna is considered to be a holy place where both body and soul are washed. We will have the opportunity to enjoy a sauna every evening during the tour, except on arrival night.

At the cabin base we will have use of a separate electric sauna, shared with another nearby cabin. At the wilderness cabins there will be either a small wood-fired sauna attached to the cabin or in a separate building nearby. The guide will arrange 'sauna shifts', with separate times for each cabin, and separate times for male/female. Depending on demand it may be possible to arrange shorter private sauna sessions / washing time.

Finnish people traditionally don't sauna in mixed groups or wearing towels/swimming suits. As we will have exclusive use of the sauna during our designated shifts, if you would prefer not to fully embrace this tradition, it will be acceptable to wear swimwear or a towel.

The group will be led by a professional and qualified tour leader.

Approximately €100 per person should be allowed for tips, soft drinks, and miscellaneous expenses. There is no currency exchange or ATM as Kuusamo airport and there will be no possibility to withdraw/exchange money on leaving Kuusamo. You should the opportunity to exchange money if transitting through Helsinki Airport. There is little opportunity for spending money on this tour and all meals are included. There are small souvenir shops at the Hossa Visitor Centre and at the Reindeer Farm which both accept credit cards, cash will only be needed for tips and for soft drinks/alcohol etc... beer (2€ per can) and wine (10€ per bottle) is available to purchase at the cabins.

Tipping is the accepted way of saying ‘thank you’ to your leader. Tipping is entirely voluntary and should be dependent on good service. We recommend that you decide levels of tipping and give any tips as a group rather than from individual group members.

For this holiday you should take one piece of luggage and a daypack. Whilst on our 3-day hut to hut trek we will be given smaller bags in which to pack the luggage we need for our overnight stays, these bags will then be transported between huts for us so we only have to carry a daypack each day. Any additional luggage can be left at our cabin base. For international flights please check your baggage allowance with your airline.

For each holiday there is a minimum number of participants required to enable it to go ahead. Once the minimum number is reached, the trip status will change from 'Available' to 'Guaranteed to run'. You can check the trip status for each departure in ‘Dates and Prices’ table. Other than in exceptional circumstances, we will not cancel a trip once it has achieved this guaranteed to run status and so you are free to proceed with your international flight booking and other travel arrangements.

We sell this holiday in conjunction with our local operator in Finland. This enables us to gather together sufficient numbers of like-minded adventurers to get the holiday up and running quickly. For this holiday the minimum age is 14 yrs, however it is unusual to have people under 16yrs.