Lapland advice would be so appreciated

[Ash19]

I've started looking into lapland and just realised so much choice. We have one daughter she will be 6 when we go. The places I'm looking at are phya 3night or suomo 2 night with canterbury or rovanemi 2 night trip or kittila 3 night trip with a place called magic vacations. We just want it to be really fun and magical. Any info or experience would be much appreciated

Rovaniemi is a great base to explore the area and it has a good range of hotels, restaurants, shops, and tour operators.
However, if you want to see the Northern Lights, it’s best to stay somewhere outside of the city, away from all the light pollution.
We stayed in a small resort town called Luosto as it had lots to do nearby, including husky safaris, reindeer farms, visiting an amethyst mine, skiing, very little light pollution, and the opportunity to stay in a glass igloo.
There is a bus from Rovaniemi to Luosto, but we decided to hire a car from Sixt. Choose a place within a reasonable distance so you don’t waste too much time in transit. Levi and Saariskella are popular spots but they’re a bit further away.

We did 3 nights with Canterbury travel. It was well organised. Awesome fun and just generally amazing.

We did the magical interlude trip and stayed in Luosto. We upgraded the food package to the ala carte restaurant. Without a doubt that was worth it.

With Canterbury the set up is really slick. They've done this loads and nothing is too much trouble.

If you go with Canterbury travels. Learn the elf song before you go. And be warned it will stay with you forever!!

Thanks for replies. Yes leaning towards cantubury.

We went with Santa's Lapland for 3 nights, we were really impressed

We went to Rovaniemi for four nights with a 6yo. We organised it ourselves (we don't live in UK) and spent a day at Santa Park (definitely worth getting there at opening time - we had a fabulous three hours with hardly any other people and then suddenly at noon the tour groups turned up and it was rammed), a day husky sledding and sleigh riding with Lapland Safaris which was wonderful and a day at Santa Village, which was hot and bustling indoors, cold and magical outside.

The snow itself is magical - it's so powdery and fluffy. Hard to even make a snowball as it's so dry.

I think there are definitely some wonderful sounding places that aren't quite as touristy as Rovaniemi, but we had a wonderful time and DD loved it.

Lurking as I would love to take Ds in a few years and it all sounds so magical

Is it all as horribly expensive as it sounds?

We went with Santa's Lapland for three nights and added all the extras - it was super packed bit but stressful and really magical. Pricey but totally worth it !