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The 85 Best Airbnbs and Vacation Rentals in the World, According to Super-Travelers

"Florida-based travel journalist Ward took her two kids to Rovaniemi to see the Santa Claus Village when they were still 'young enough to believe all the magic was very real.' Staying at this three-bedroom, two-bath Airbnb put her family in 'a real Finnish neighborhood,' where her children hung out with local kids and she learned how to cook smoked salmon 'the Finnish way, on an outdoor barbecue' with her host Jorma. 'After a fun day of reindeer sledding and snowmobiling, it was so cozy to come back to this beautiful home with an indoor pool and sauna and a big movie screen you could roll down to show the kids—what else?—Frozen,' recalls Ward. It was also in Rovaniemi that her children fell in love with the Moomins, a charming Finnish cartoon series." - Ashlea Halpern