First time travelling with Finnair. Our flight from Changi Intl Terminal 1 at 2335hrs to HELSINKI
Terminal 2, reached at 0635hrs and it cost us SGD 1294.6. We had to take internal flight from HELSINKI Terminal 2 at 1035hrs to Ivalo, reached 1305hrs and it cost us SGD 654.27. This trip was the most expensive trip that I had travelled so far.
Terminal 2, reached at 0635hrs and it cost us SGD 1294.6. We had to take internal flight from HELSINKI Terminal 2 at 1035hrs to Ivalo, reached 1305hrs and it cost us SGD 654.27. This trip was the most expensive trip that I had travelled so far.
We booked a 5 days package with https://www.theaurorazone.com/
Total cost was 3,963.64 Euro for 3 of us excluding charges paid by credit card. It was around SGD 2120 per pax.
We were fetched from airport to Muotkan Maja Wilderness Lodge. Journey from airport to the lodge was about 30 mins. According to our itinerary, day one did not include lunch but we were told that we could have our lunch at the lodge before they showed us to our room.
Main purpose of trip was Aurora. It was not food trip, thus no nice photos of food. Lol. Ok, blame it on my skills..
The main building was really nice. Nice country style where we must take a photo!
After we were being briefed....on our programme, given a phone that would notify us if there was Aurora above our accommodation...we were brought to our room.
We had funny experience in our room. 1st, we had difficulty opening the door to our room! We almost shouted from our window calling for help for someone to open our door. We thought of climbing out of window but window could not be opened. Lucky enough, we managed to open the door and we told the person we had problem with it. There was actually some technique! To open it, we had to push it in hard then opened it. We saw the person hit her hip towards the door and opened it. OK...we tried.....many many times after the person left.
Another experience was the tap in the bathroom for showering dropped. We were shown to another room for just showering purpose.
Ever wonder how we push our luggage on the snowy floor? We used this plastic sled. We put our luggage in the sled and we push it on the snow floor. It was easy to push.
Snow mobile. We would ride it on one of the days. Must have license to drive it, however, nobody actually checked for our license.
Went out to explore the place. There was really not much houses seen. Totally wild. Beware of the snow too. Some were soft and might get ourselves stuck in the snow. A knee deep. We walked on the path after experiencing our leg sank in to the snow. It was difficult to get out of it.
We waited for the Aurora to appear but it didn't. We waited for the phone given to us to notify us on the Aurora but none. We slept...occasionally woke up to toilet and looked outside our window for Aurora.....
Above photos taken from Compact camera, Sony RX100III
