Lapland Hotels Sky Ounasvaara

Perched at the top of a tall hill, the hotel’s location is magical, with views reaching out over thickly forested rolling hills and a sparkling river. The staff are lovely and friendly, they greet you with a smile as soon as you walk into the stunning reception area filled with comfy chairs and a crackling fire. We visited in the summer, so spent lots of time walking the forest trails and tracks that are ski slopes in the winter. Our room was fantastic: spacious, clean and luxurious. We used the sauna lots. Every night after walking in the forest all day, we slept soundly in super soft beds. The breakfast buffet was absolutely amazing, with everything you could possible want and then some. The finishing touch; a whole fresh honeycomb.

The open fire in the lobby and bar area, our room with a private sauna, and breakfast was amazing! A bonus of the viewing platform is to see the northern lights. The tap water is amazing and so clean. There is Santa Sports halfway ish to the town, which serves good-priced burgers, pizza, etc, Bowling, and a swimming pool.

The location of the facility is in the forest, exactly where you would want to be in Rovaniemi. We went to the center by bike in 10 minutes, but on the way back we had to walk with our bikes in our hands, it was very tiring. It would be much more comfortable by car. The staff was very helpful, especially Matias. After leaving the hotel, we were warned by e-mail about the negligence of the hotel staff regarding the account, it was an e-mail sent as if we had leave without paying, of course we paid it immediately. We did not use breakfast for 2 days because we woke up late, I asked them for the breakfast fee back, they did not answer. If they had not panicked by forgetting to take the 60 € payment, everything would have been 10 out of 10..

Travel was by motorcycle. They have covered shelters for parking which was great (it rained :-( ) The breakfast was good and the restaurant has amazing countryside views. The 'mountain top' (ok big hill really) location is superb. It was a really great location on the arctic circle from which to see the midnight sun on midsummer's day from their 'aurora' viewing deck on the roof. The rooms are beautifully appointed and the Nordic styling is fabulous.

The live egg counter was good and the blue berry powder in the breakfast service. Unfortunately for dinner service they has a vegetarian lasagne which they only had served 1 dish for and which finished and that was there only main dish. So a lot of people like myself were very dissapointed with not serving enough food and only having 1 main dish.