Lapland Hotels Sky Ounasvaara

My wife and I got the sauna hotel room. And it was manifico 🤌. The snow covered flauna and the panoramic view at the restraunt was absolutely magical. It came with a free breakfast and it was much nicer than your run of the mill hotel breakfasts. The staff was super friendly and helpful and I hope to visit again!

A wonderful location, friendly, happy and knowledgeable staff, with exquisite food.|This is quite possibly my favourite restaurant now. Such great staff, happy and chatty, and who clearly knew the food.|Ok, I've only been once, going again tomorrow, but it was fantastic.|Have the taster starter, 6 Finnish dishes including trout, reindeer pie, reindeer tartare and local cheese with a berry chutney.|Reindeer two ways for main. Rare, succulent and delicious.|I highly recommend this place. Go there.

We staying during the summer season - perfect for hiking and bike rides. The hotel is stunning, rooms are beautiful. We had a sauna in our room which was a nice touch. Customer service was friendly and accomodating, especially for a few requests we had (I.e late checkout, dinner reservation). Be mindful there is no elevator at this hotel. The dinner was nice, presented with a nice view of the Forrest. Could not fault the food. The breakfast was also well done, many options of locally sourced product. The oatmeal was my favourite. For 5 stars, I recommend having some form of transport to assist such as a shuttle bus or bike rental on site. Taxi is very expensive if you don’t have a car. I also think the hot drinks are very over priced. A hot chocolate dispensed from a basic coffee machine cost 4.40 euro each - I was very surprised on this price for cheap quality. Overall we enjoyed our stay. I would stay again if there was alternative transport provided by the hotel (shuttle or bike).

Rooms: I looked at a lot of hotels in the area but none seemed that exciting. The decor looked great for this one and I like it even more in person for being a cozy, inviting space. There is also a nice storage area and my son gets to try his 1st sauna… after I google how it works 😀 Service: I arrived early in the day and my room was ready. Staff was very helpful in explaining all the hotel details 🙂 Location: I have a woodland view so that makes the location great to me although I am relatively close to town Bonus points for all the reindeer everywhere, to include beautiful wooden hotel keys 🦌💙

This hotel exceeds expectations. I believe it is stated as a 3-star, but our experience was at least a 4-star (I have been living in hotels across countries for 30+ years). Clean, quiet, friendly, charming attentive staff and a great restaurant. The location is outside the town, on top of a nearby hill. Great location to take walks / hikes and a 10-minute car ride away from 'downtown'.

We went a week before Christmas 2024. It was magical with the snow. Like being in a Christmas card. Remote, with a few hours of daylight. The staff were lovely, the room was nice and clean. We would definitely stay again|Man I love Christmas…..

I had a change to stay in this beautiful property in February and it was just perfect. The hotel is located on a hill so basically amazing to see the Aurora lights. The Sky restaurant has this delicious soup from pine nut that is the best I have ever tried. The views from the hotel rooms are extraordinary as well you wake up with the trees covered in snow. I hope I can visit again some time.

Amazing hotel, really built for winter time. Rooms were incredible and had their own sauna. Only downside was the transport options during summer months. Would have been perfect if the hotel had a bike rental or shuttle service. We had challenges with the Uber vs Taxi battle on the apps (& exorbitant costs of each) and being able to rent a bike from hotel and self travel in summer months would have got 5 stars (& could of saved us a lot of uber/taxi spend). Ps the local music in hotel room was great, I've got an entire new Spotify list based on the hotel tv music!

If you're in the Lapland region, do not miss this restaurant. I booked this restaurant for an anniversary dinner through a travel company so our menu was already set. To start, we had a carrot soup and reindeer tartare (which I promise is much better than it sounds when you think about possibly eating Rudolph). Both options were delicious and if we could have licked the plate, we would have. Our server also brought out complimentary sparkling blueberry wine and homemade bread. The bread is out of this world and was gone from our table in a matter of minutes. Our entree' was a seared cod with cauliflower mash which was even better than the starters, if that's even possible. Our dessert was a blueberry gelato with merengue. Now, the food was incredible but the location is what just puts this place over the edge. Located a little outside of the city center, this restaurant can be incredible for catching a glimpse of the northern lights. Following our wonderful candlelit dinner, we made our way up to the hotel roof where you can see all of Rovaniemi and hope that the lights will come out. Though it was cloudy when we first went up, the clouds cleared up and we got the most incredible show of lights. The staff brought us hot blueberry juice in traditional Finnish wooden mugs so that we could enjoy it while we sat upstairs enjoying the lights. (Bonus, we got to keep the cups!) As soon as the lights were covered back up by clouds, magic happened and snow started to fall. You may not get this same experience considering it's all up to the weather. But if you're in this region, you're doing yourself a disservice by not visiting. I will happily be back as soon as I can just for the food!