We have been running our northern lights holidays in Utsjoki since 2014. We have 800 amazing reviews on tripadvisor. We offer both cottage holidays and also a hotel based northern lights holiday. This page is about our northern lights hotel holidays in Utsjoki. For more pictures of the hotel click here. The hotel is located right next to our cottages so the northern lights watchtower is also accessible to our customers in either location. Whereas the cottages are totally self catering, the hotel is half board, so you get a buffet breakfast each morning (included in the holiday price) and you can also go there for lunch and dinner if you like (at own cost).
The hotel is situated in the most incredible location next to the Tenojoki river, with beautiful views of the river and the surrounding fells. It was built quite recently and is modern and well decorated.
The rooms are spacious twin/double rooms with ensuite toilet and shower.
Our awesome 4 night/5 day northern lights holidays run Monday to Friday or shorter 3 night/4 day northern lights holidays which run over the weekend. The 4 night and 3 night tours are exclusive of each other and can be booked in their own right whether you want to spend the week with us, or just have a quick weekend getaway. However, a lot of our guests fall in love with the place and say they wish they could have stayed here longer, so it is totally fine to book both 4 night and 3 night tours back to back to make a 7 night northern lights holiday if you so wished! Or book the hotel for the week and our cottages for the weekend. Its up to you!
Worlds coolest staircase
It’s a small 12 room Lapland hotel. Nice and peaceful!
View from your room.
Modern ensuite bathroom/WC
Our Asgard tours in Utsjoki being at almost 70° North and surrounded by official wilderness areas means we have absolutely pristine clear skies with zero light pollution. Once you get this far north combined with being in these wilderness areas, your chances of seeing Northern Lights sky rocket compared to the big towns and cities in Lapland. This is statistically the best place in Finland (and the best place in the EU!) for Northern Lights.
Doesn’t get much better than this! What a night!
At the time of writing, we have 100% record for the current aurora season. Meaning every week since our tours started, we have seen northern lights. Yes some weeks it has been touch and go whether we would keep that record, it hasn’t all been plain sailing, but with a slice of luck (and sometimes you need that) we have got an aurora show even right up to the last night. Some weeks we have epic northern lights every night of the week!
It is a 2 hour drive to the nearest airport (which is Ivalo airport), but ask any of our thousands of guests over the years was the drive worth it and I am sure you will get a resounding YES. In fact, many of our guests come back year after year. Some of them have been coming every year since our inception in 2014! The beauty of being this far out is that it’s not touristy. You will see real Lapland as it lives and breaths. There are no gimmicks, no mass tourism and no false advertising. You’ll likely see Reindeer beside the road on the drive up here and even the occasional Moose. You get what we advertise, an amazing holiday, set in beautiful scenery on the periphery of civilisation. True peace and quiet.
Our Asgard tours in Utsjoki have won a certificate of excellence for almost 10 years straight on Tripadvisor. Indeed, we have been ranked #1 out of 250 tour companies in Lapland on Tripadvisor for almost a decade. If this is a once in a lifetime trip for you, why choose anyone else than the best?
Here is a video from one of our aurora tours, this was filmed on 3 nights of the same tour:
We can’t promise weeks are always that good 😉 but when the Earth weather and Space weather play ball, that really is what you can expect here.
Another night under epic aurora.
Our motto “it’s all about the lights” has never been truer, because we hand picked every single thing about this northern lights holiday ourselves entirely from an aurora chasers perspective. It is 100% dedicated to Northern Lights and about maximising the chances of seeing them. We go chasing the lights to some of the most northern locations in Finland such as Utsjoki and Nuorgam. But we don’t stop there, we also cross the border into the Finnmark region of Norway and sometimes chase the northern lights even to the Barents Sea itself! We tap into our knowledge from running the aurora information service, and use all the tools we use for that (and many others we have at our disposal) to help get you under the Northern Lights.
Breakast with a view. There is an awesome restaurant on site. Restaurant menu is here
Our responsibility for you seeing northern lights is not just when we are driving round in the evening trying to find them. Our responsibility of helping you see Northern Lights begins when you step off the plane, until when you step back on it! So even if we are not with you at the time, we want to maximise your chances of seeing the lights! If we aren’t with you when the aurora kicks off (eg it’s 2am!), no worries, we send a whatsapp alert! You can also use the Whatsapp group to contact your guide if you have a problem or need anything.
If the weather is not very good in Utsjoki, we’ll hit the road and try to find clear skies. Like we did here.
The number of people we take PER WEEK is usually around 12. This means even if we are fully booked, it’s just you and a few other aurora chasers for the entire week. We are a small company and we like small groups. Lets leave the huge groups of people and filling 50 seater coaches to the other Lapland towns cities. In Utsjoki, its all about peace and quiet.
Our Northern lights watchtower is a 4 min walk from the hotel.
Itinerary
The 4 night aurora holiday is Monday to Friday. On the Monday afternoon when you arrive, we’ll pick you up from Ivalo airport (all the details on which airport to fly to, which flights to get and lots of other useful information is here). Depending on the road conditions, it is about a two hour drive back to the hotel through beautiful snow capped pine forests and past frozen lakes.
Before we get to the hotel, we’ll stop at the supermarket. This is for customers staying in the cottages to do a shop because they are self catering. But of course its always nice to get some drinks and snacks when you are on holiday so you can do this too even though you are staying in the hotel which has a restaurant on site. The supermarket is pretty big and it has everything for many diets, such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, etc. It also has a wine shop.
It will be around 5.00 pm by the time we get you to the hotel and you will have been travelling non-stop all day, so we’ll leave you to settle into the hotel and have an evening relaxing after a hard day’s travelling. The aurora chasing begins on Tuesday evening. Of course if the aurora is overhead on Monday, we’ll whatsapp you! It’s important you relax the first night so you are fresh for the rest of the week, because we will be out chasing the light for 3 nights straight, and depending on the the aurora show, we could be out quite late each night, well into the early hours, so rest up and lets chase the aurora hard the rest of the week.
You have the daytime to yourself. Whether you want to go for walks, take up some of the activities we offer or just relax at the hotel reading a book.
If the skies aren’t clear at our site, we’ll hit the road in order to get under aurora.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm each evening (purposefully just after dinner time so your not chasing the lights on an empty stomach!), our aurora chasing tours begin. We will come and collect you from your hotel and go out chasing the lights for about 4 hours or more (depends how good the show is) each night. When we get back to the hotel, you can carry on watching the northern lights into the early hours at your own leisure, with a beer or a glass of wine in your hand.
Not your average drive to the airport…
On the Friday morning we’ll come and collect you at about 9.30 am and take you back on the beautiful 2 hour drive to Ivalo airport.
Some of our optional daytime activities you can add on to your trip if you want:
There is no better feeling than being pulled silently through nature by huskies!
Our snowmobiling adventure is a nice gentle drive down frozen rivers and across frozen lakes, which often produces a few Reindeer sightings. It’s a great way to get off the beaten track and sample the Lapland wilderness.
If you want to do some of our optional winter activities in the day time, you can add-on to your holiday. Click here for more details.
The Price
Hotel – 4 nights €1295 per person (Mon – Fri)
Kids under 11 are half price!
-You only pay €100 (person) now to secure your place. The remainder is payable 1 month before arrival.
What you get:
- 4 nights accommodation
- Buffet breakfast each morning.
- 3 nights aurora chasing 4-5 hours.
- Collection to and from Ivalo airport.
- Hot drinks and snacks while out aurora chasing.
- Snow suits if needed.
- Free help and advice with your own camera.
- Free aurora pics that we have taken on our pro cameras.
What isn’t included:
- Flights are not included (we get people from every corner of the world, so it is impossible for us to arrange flights). Just get yourself to Ivalo airport in Lapland and we’ll do the rest.
- Lunch and Dinner are not included. You can buy meals at the hotel restaurant or at the various restaurants in the area.
Our Utsjoki Tour Dates 2025-2026 Aurora Season
Tour 1 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 3rd Nov – Friday 7th Nov 2025
Tour 2 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 10th Nov – Friday 14th Nov 2025
Tour 3 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 17th Nov – Friday 21st Nov 2025
Tour 4 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 24th Nov – Friday 28th Nov 2025
Tour 5 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 1st Dec – Friday 5th Dec 2025
Tour 6 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 8th Dec – Friday 12th Dec 2025
Tour 7 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 15th Dec – Friday 19th Dec 2025
Christmas Break
Tour 8 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 29th Dec 2025 – Friday 2nd Jan 2026
Tour 9 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 5th January – Friday 9th Jan 2026
Tour 10 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 12th Jan – Friday 16th Jan 2026
Tour 11 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 19th Jan – Friday 23rd Jan 2026
Tour 12 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 26th Jan – Friday 30th Jan 2026
Tour 13 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 2nd Feb – Friday 6th Feb 2026
Tour 14 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 9th Feb – Friday 13th Feb 2026
Tour 15 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 16th Feb – Friday 20th Feb 2026
Tour 16 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 23rd Feb – Friday 27th Feb 2026
Tour 17 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 2nd March – Friday 6th March 2026
Tour 18 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 9th March – Friday 13th March 2026
Tour 19 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 16th March – Friday 20th March 2026
Tour 20 | Weekday (4 nights) Monday 23rd March – Friday 27th March 2026
For dates beyond this, if you are planning very far in advance, just click book now below and scroll forward through the booking calendar.
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The dedicated northern lights holiday in Finland was conceived by us. We are the original!
