Snow Shoe Dancing with live music starts again from 18.11.10 everyday between 14 - 17 All Welcome!  

Christmas Buffer on Christmas Eve 24.12. 

Join a traditional Finnish Christmas Celebration in a cozy family hotel

Even staying somewhere else you can come and join us on Christmas Eve 

adults 35 €,  children  3 -12 years  15 €,  please book on advance

NEW YEAR PARTY IN LAANIHOVI

Join us for a New Years Eve Party to remember

We will pick you up from your Hotel/Cottage  between 19.30-20.00, for your transfer to Laanila, where you will be welcomed with drinks, for both Adults and Children, from the front terrace which is lit with hundreds of candles and torches. Inside a special  New Years Dinner with crackers, cakes and candles awaits you in the restaurant.

If we are lucky we might even see the magical Northern Lights fireplay in the dark sky, Laanila is a perfect place to search for northern lights with its location on a hill further from the street lights.

While inside more entertainment in Live Music, Dancing, Games and Playing of the *Casting of the tin (traditional Finnish New Years Game) makes a party that ends with a group countdown to midnight. Then we all go out to watch the fireworks from Saariselkä village.

All this makes a New Years party to remember - from this magical location.

Transfer back to the hotel/cottage between 00.15 and 00.30.

Price (includes transfer, drinks on arrival, meal and Entertainment)

Adults:      42 € p.p

Children:   29.50 € p.p

*Traditionally the night proceeding the first day of the year has been the time for magical tricks with the intention to open the door to the future.

Casting of tin is one of the most popular magical tricks in Finland on New Year's Eve. Everyone gets a small piece of tin in the shape of a miniature horseshoe, which is a traditional symbol of good luck. The horseshoe is melted and the liquid metal poured quickly into a bucket of cold water, where it quickly solidifies in fantastic shapes.
The shape and shadow of the resulting cast is examined and interpreted to predict the various future events of the coming year. Different shapes have different meaning, promising good luck or health, wealth, happiness, sorrow, sickness etc. If the cast breaks down to pieces, it is a sign of "bad luck".

Lasse Hoikka & Souvarit - the FAMOUS Lappish dance orchestra in Laanihovi 4.4. and 10.4. 2012