Lapland UK

[Figgygal]

Has anyone ever been looking for some real life reviews

I have a three-year-old and almost 8-year-old would it be suitable for both ?

The eldest is eight at Christmas and has a inset day at school at the end of November if I can get tickets for that day we can go on one of the cheapest days of the year and I'm very tempted even though it's a good couple of hours away for us

Dh needs some convincing some of our friends went three or four years ago and thought it was completely amazing and magical and I would hope so for the price

These never go well, save the money and promise to do something better.

I went to Lapland UK a few years ago and have many friends who,ve been more recently. Its fantastic and well worth the money. Book it and enjoy

We went last year and it is magical! My children were 5, 8 and 11 years old and I think that worked well as the youngest was old enough to participate fully and the eldest was still young enough to get caught up in all the magic (as were we!) We met some people who go every year, for us it was a one off as apart from the expense I think going every year would take away from the magic. If I were you I would hold off a couple of years so your three year old truly remembers it and gets fully involved.

We are taking our 1, 7,9 y olds
1 y o (will be 23 months) won’t really get much out of it but I think it’ll be perfect for the 7 and 9 y o we booked a weekday as cheaper

we went last year and it was £100 each (mu daughter was 4) and hand on heart it was amazing - and i didnt walk out and feel totally ripped off - i think the money was well justified

It’s amazing. We went for two years and on the 2nd year we felt it was too samey - they didn’t change enough for the parents in my opinion. So we skipped last year, and I deeply regret it. Somewhere local to us in a beautiful historic building that’s been used for movies and it was raved about by everyone... I managed to get tickets before they sold out and I was so completely and utterly underwhelmed.

The Lapland U.K. experience has the type of attention to detail for stage setting I’ve only seen in Disneyland. And the anticipation and experience lasts an entire afternoon rather and 5 min with father Xmas and then 30 min of colouring/activity.

We bought this year’s tickets in January

If it wasn't for the inset day I'd not even have thought of it this year we have tickets to marvel live in December and we are going away October half term but this seems such an opportunity

Thinking the 3year old won't get the most out of it

We went last year. Trying to find a trip this year now. Was fantastic. Took dd age 5. Not sure about a 3 yo.
On the plane me and dh looked at each other, surrounded by blimmin kids and though OMG what have we got ourselves into. Wasn’t until we were at the hotel tbh we said ooo this is going to be a good trip.
It was absolutely magical and we turned into those ppl you roll your eyes at when they describe it
When we went we went on a whole day trip for Santa and there were lots of younger dc crying due to the cold. Research everything and we found that hand disposable hand warmers stopped any tears for our family, I even ended up handing them out to the crying dc as couldn’t bear it. I’m such a wimp though.

Bumpy, it’s lapland UK. By Windsor.
With fake snow.

We’re taking our 2 DC for the first time. The eldest is just 4 and will be excited. The youngest will be 19 months and won’t know much of what’s going on, but will enjoy the lights etc and loves to be out and about.

Hoping it will be a new family tradition. They don’t know yet, I’m super excited!

@LazyDaisey oops maybe I’ll have a look at that as well this year now...

@bumpysofa - would love to find out your recommendations for real Lapland. Did you use a travel agent to book? Will save that trip for when the youngest can remember, but would love to do the research now 🎅🏻

We went December 2017. Our boys were 7 and 4. It was truly magical and we all loved it.

@StarStarBright well don’t want to derail thread but pretty much everyone in dd class seemed to go in dd year one when we went, some paid £7k for their family for 3 nights and although sounded incredible and things like they got their list read out to their kids etc we paid £2k for 3 of us with tui for 3 nights pretty much everything included (we only paid for meals included in trips and they were full on buffet so we managed on snacks outside of that to reduce costs as was a bit of a last minute on a whim booking) we went to the most northern location as believe it or not it doesn’t always snow in December in some of the locations!!

I have travelled extensively do not like packages, never go to cold locations normally long haul tropical somewhere etc but hand on heart we absolutely loved it, we nickname my dh Scrooge as he hates Christmas and even he smiled at the Santa with the real beard. And despite not being some super expensive package Santa still knew my daughter name not that he needed to, she was so shocked at seeing the man himself she literally went silent and just stared in awe. Cannot best these moments imo

Great, thanks @bumpysofa 😊

Love love Lapland Uk
Worth every penny
Truly magical
Also did a 3 day trip to real Lapland - highly recommend saariselka

date we wanted is sold out according to their fab post today ahead of next ticket sales release so decision made

Maybe next year when youngest will get more from it