Mattarahkka Northern Light Lodge

Amazing experience. We can’t recommend this place enough. Situated outside Kiruna, you can use their own ski’s for Nordic skiing, they also provide snow shoes and have snow mobiles. We booked two trips through them (Adventure Lapland) and couldn’t recommend them enough. Brilliant experiences. Skidoos with dinner in the teepee with home made soup and cake, and then a full on adventure in the snow, up and down mountains. Fabio was brilliant and so knowledgeable about the area. Mikko and his family, including Fabio are wonderful. We were treated as part of their family and offered cakes, sweets and were so welcomed. We wanted for nothing. Tea and coffee readily available along with chocolates! Breakfast was very good. Wonderful place to see the Northern Lights which we did on the first night! We also used the sauna and hot tub. Fantastic! We can’t fault this place at all. Brilliant value for money. A real homely vibe. Recommend without doubt staying here. (Although you may consider hiring a car) Thank you from Mark and Theresa

Been so looking forward to this trip - and it delivered. Very comfortable lodge to stay in, warm, cosy, lovely breakfasts and very smiley, easy going staff. All our activities were so enjoyable and no messing around. Everything prompt and organised with us having nothing to worry about. Mikka on the snowmobiles was superb and the husky dog sled my favourite. I love snow and quiet places so perfect location and exactly what I wanted it to be. So glad I stayed here and not in a 'fancy' hotel

A great experience. the guide was really great and very patient with us oldies. Good tour up to the top of a mountain with great views - and we saw moose! When we arrived back at the lodge we were given soup, bread and hot fruit drink (lingonberry?) The soup was a fish soup. They hadn't got the message that I was vegetarian, but within 5 minutes, a delicious veg soup arrived. My friends said the fish soup was fab too. Clothes were provided and were definitely warm enough. Highly recommended.

We had an amazing 2 nights at the lodge. We arrived early in the morning and our room was already ready so we could dump our suitcases and get their snow gear sorted ready for an excursion. We did 4 activities whilst at the lodge - the Sami experience, dinner in the tepee and northern lights chasing, snow mobile trip, and a hot tub hour. All the tours were brilliantly organised and run by happy, knowledgable, friendly people. We had a cloudy night for our northern lights chasing, but instead of doing nothing Adrian took us on an informative tour of Kiruna and explained about the iron ore mining and the town being relocated as a result. The food was lovely and I’d recommend the gin & tonics infused with hand picked berries and spruce by Barbara!!

The good things first Great location outside of the city, in case you have a car Very good breakfast Clean Nice sauna and hot tub You can take the ski for cross country and book with them various experiences Free parking A lady responsible for breakfast and cleaning was very nice and helpful Free coffee and tea in the lounge, nice fire place To improve Not a single wardrobe in the room No help from the owner in terms of aurora hunt,. It is a very small hotel (7rooms) and I would expect more familiar approach.. However my impression was unless you book all in package noone cares so much anymore.. At the checkout they wanted to add to the bill some beer and a bottle of wine i have never seen ... If you have no car there is no public transportation and a taxi would cost you around 25eur one way to the city.. Once all the rooms were occupied the water was hardly warm under the shower WiFi was very poor, especially in the room TV - a few channels Heating sometimes did not work properly (but they put additional electric heater in the rooms that helps) Quite loud in the rooms(ventilation) I have booked with them husky tour and got the confirmation for the pick up at 9.30. At 9. 00a guide arrived surprised i was not ready yet..