Lapland or somewhere else for Christmas trip?

[miss_piggy]

We’ve been thinking about doing a special trip next Christmas (2022) when our kids will be 9 and 5 - Lapland is the first place that we’ve been pricing up. It’s working out about £4500 for everything with Canterbury travel for 3nts. Tell me it’s worth this amount of money if you’ve done it? Or any other suggestions of Christmas destinations- we will be going to Florida in May next year so don’t want to go there again so soon, DLP has come to mind but we have been near Christmas before so thinking somewhere different and once in a lifetime before our eldest gets too old for Santa just struggling trying to justify the cost over for example the Winter Wonderland breaks we’ve done other years at Center Parcs!

[SamShakes]

We went to lapland 2 Christmas ago ... we planned it all ourselves

Booked direct flights with Norwegian from Gatwick, Log Cabin via booking.com

The main Santa village is free to visit too

We ended up paying to see a santa that was off in a hidden forest so was less touristy but the main village itself was beautiful

We even booked all the excursions ourself and saved a fortune

The flights were around £300 each and the log cabin for 3 nights was only £400!

Happy to help if you have any questions

[fissycist]

We did a Lapland trip with Canterbury travel many moons ago when DD were 7 and 4 years old (they are 20 and 17 now.
Sorry I can’t remember how much we paid at the time but I can remember it being very expensive.
However it was a lovely special trip at the right time for us.
There were many arranged activities as part of package - snowball fights, tabogganing, santa’s workshop and post office, husky rides, reindeer sleigh rides, ice fishing, adult and child snow mobile rides all with special elf’s in tow. In addition it was a special trip Santa’s house via a sleigh pulled by snow mobile and it was very well orchestrated meeting with the big man. The look of wonder in the photo of my DDs from that meeting is something to behold (Father Christmas was very well prepped).
I’’m glad we did it but only did it the once.
We also did a trip to DLP over a new year when DDS were about 2 and 5 which was also very lovely.

[mickeyspal]

We had it cancelled last year but we were booked with santas lapland. Staying in a log cabin in yllas for 4 nights was £1200pp that was self catering, but included everything else ,
Flights, outdoor clothing and boots, a visit to find santa, skidoo safari ( 25km) a days skiing with a lesson, reindeer farm and sleigh ride, husky farm and sled, and a gala dinner Christmas party.
Gutted that we had it cancelled

[Bellasmummy]

We went to Lapland a few years ago, instead of booking as a Christmas break we booked a week as a ski trip and that worked out the same as 3 nights that some places were charging.

We did ski but you obviously don’t have to and don’t have to book anything ski related. We had the option to book all the same excursions as those on the Christmas breaks.

We booked with Neilsons or Inghams can’t remember which now.