Ich habe mir zunächst diese Website angesehen: https://www.kakslauttanen.fi/
Ich habe einen alten Reddit-Beitrag gefunden, in dem stand, dass dieser Ort überteuert sei und es bessere Alternativen gäbe. Der Beitrag war mehrere Jahre alt.
Gibt es bessere Alternativen? Gibt es noch andere allgemeine Ratschläge? Oder Reiseführer, die man zu Rate ziehen kann?
Es ist unser 10. Hochzeitstag, daher gefallen uns die Glasiglus wirklich gut.
3 Nächte bleiben? Ich schätze, die Anreise nach Finnland dauert einen Tag, die Anreise zum Standort einen Tag und dann zwei Tage zurück nach Hause. 3 Nächte in den Iglus sind also immer noch eine einwöchige Reise.
Wie lange im Voraus muss ich die Reise buchen?
Irgendwelche anderen Tipps/Vorsichtsmaßnahmen?
TIA
https://old.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/1dyhhvt/where_to_go_for_northern_lights_in_february/
Von DadBodorFatherFigure
5 Kommentare
There’s no guarantee of northern lights as they aren’t just turned on for your viewing and depend on how the sun and atmosphere are feeling that day. If you want to see northern lights, getting a hotel like igloo in Rovaniemi can be a good idea, and then you just go outside. Go to a place with no light pollution, best be by a lake that is where I usually see them best, and just see what happens.
In my part of Finland (Eastern Finland) northern lights typically happen about once or twice a month during the winter, and in northern parts of lapland they tend to happen every few days. You should go to a northern part of Finland, hotel in a town like Inari or Ivalo, and then just go outside with a car or snowmobile and see what happens.
Source: I live in a smaller town and frequent lapland
u will be lucky to spot northern lights in such short time, u can never count on it that u will see it plus u have to go as north as possible to even have a chance
If you like the igloos go there, but do not give any money or take any „tour“ or „guide“
Northern lights are like clouds in the sky, there isn’t any tour guide that can show them to you. If they are there they are there and can be seen anywhere in northern finland (sometimes south also).
Go somewhere where is little to no light pollution, and rest is in the hands of mother nature. If you spend week in northern finland, i would say it’s really bad luck if you don’t see any, but size and beauty can be anything between meh and wow.
And also most of the photos there are of them are heavily edited and/or with long exposure, they don’t look that irl.
First you go as north as possible. Then you just go out when it’s (1) dark, (2) cloudless and (3) there’s enough solar activity. Anything else is irrelevant. You don’t need a tour, igloo hotel or anything that’s designed to make you part ways with your money.
Imo the igloo hotels are not worth it but that’s up to you to decide. However don’t go to Kakslauttanen unless you want to support environmental crimes and abuse of foreign workers.
The glass igloos are cool. Yes they are insanely expensive but also unique, and they’re not made for Finnish people but wealthy foreigners to come experience something different. Usually in these threads its Finns chiming in with their irrelevant opinion on the price or whatever. I would take that particular whining with a grain of salt.