Ultimate Christmas story from Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi is the one and only place for real Christmas experience. Santa Claus Village and other Christmas related attractions like SantaPark and Santa Claus Secret Forest are providing unique and atmospheric setting for all kinds of stories: Christmas episodes, Santa Claus’ messages, Christmas magic in iconic Santa Claus Village and Winter wonderland report from Lapland.
Rovaniemi’s strong and unique Christmas brand together with the many years of experience working with different media from allover the world, makes the working reliable and smooth.
Find here belov some planning advices and tips for the ultimate Christmas story from Rovaniemi – The Official hometown of Santa Claus.
Best possible visiting time
is in early winter October and March & April.
In the highseason (from Nov onward) there are limitations on availabilities (interviews, meeting Santa Claus, activities and accommodations). During the winter highseason Visit Rovaniemi encourages to have direct contact with the wished partner company and discuss about the possible individual media collaborations.
For larger productions we recommend to hire a local fixer to manage all the details. Visit Rovaniemi is pleased to suggest experienced fixer who has knowledge about our Christmas brand.
Start by
- Contacting Visit Rovaniemi’s PR team for the suggestions, advices, permissions and filling the media application well in advance
- Searching and booking the flights & accommodations & local transfers
- Providing the draft plan or script for Visit Rovaniemi’s PR team
- Detailed planning begins…
Santa Claus Village tips
Santa Claus Village is open every day of the year, so the Christmas spirit can be lived and documented in any day. The belov mentioned Christmas attractions welcome media to create the atmospheric Christmas content specially outside the high-season (November – March) to ensure the flexibility and availability that media cases might require. Kindly notice that the media visit must always be agreed in advance.
- Santa Claus Office , meet the man himself every day of the year
- Santa Claus’ Main Post Office , place which receives more than 500 000 letters written to Santa Claus yearly
- Santa Claus Reindeer , meet Santa’s special reindeer, and enjoy the sleigh ride in winter season
- Mrs Santa Claus’s Christmas Cabin , place to meet Mrs Santa Claus
- Elf Hat academy , learn the unique elf skills and graduate from the special lesson
- Santa’s Pets, meet domestic animals and take a reindeer or an alpaca for an atmospheric walk
- Atmospheric Christmas shopping
There are more to be experienced and added in the content in Santa Claus Village. Some activities and services can be seasonal, or available only by request.
Santa Claus Village Fact Sheet
500 000 annual visitors from all over the world
Arctic Circle line crosses the central square of the Village
Roosevelt Cottage built in 1950 to be the first building at the Arctic Circle
Santa Claus has been meeting visitors 30 years, daily basis
Special Arctic Circle postmark available in Santa Claus’ Main Post Office