Lapland - talk to me like I'm 5

[TheTwirlyPoos]

Our kids are 6 are 4. Id love to do Lapland but DH is concerned about the cost (rightly so, I get it's expensive). I'm wondering if it would be sensible to do Lapland UK next year and maybe do Lapland in a few years in say January to make it cheaper

But then I saw loads of different groups and Facebook stuff of different ways of making Lapland cheaper and so many different options and now my head hurts.

Talk to me like I'm a small child. Please..

I'd say that 4 is too young, 6 might be too. Long, dark, tiring and very cold days. It's a wonderful trip, but definitely wait until they are older.

Wait until they are a bit older.

Sorry I wasn't clear we wouldn't be doing it this year!! I'm just trying to plan

Unless you are going for Santa, which I assume you are not since you mention January, wait until they are bit older. In December the daylight is very limited, February is a better time of year in terms of daylight. It can be very very cold, the first time I went it was just the husband and I and we did a long weekend with activities in northern Sweden and then stayed a night in the ice hotel, it was - 25 every day and my eyelashes were frozen together all the time. My husband's feet were frozen in the middle of our husky sledding safari, he literally had his boots off at one of our stops trying to warm them on a fire to avoid chillblains. An adult kind of manages through that type of extreme cold but kids probably wouldn't. We took the kids to Lapland in search of Santa in 2018, the weather was much warmer around -1/-2 and we did similar activities (snow mobile/dog sled/reindeer safari/sledging) of shorter duration, we were on and off a bus between activities and it would have been easier to get warm if it was needed.

We went during February half term. It meant that we had 8 hours of daylight. Temperatures were between -7 and -12.