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Santa Claus in Lapland

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Updated: Oct 25, 2024

Santa Claus is from Lapland. He works in Rovaniemi and his childhood cabin is here in Levi.

Santa greeting people
Levi, 17 Nov 2018
Aggie and Gooseberry in front of Santa's office

Santa's office is in Rovaniemi situated on the Arctic Circle and you can take your photo standing on it.

You can visit Santa in his office at any time of the year, it's just a few minutes drive from Rovaniemi airport and 172km from the village of Levi. Santa Claus office is free to enter and you can meet Santa there. The elves will take your picture with Santa and you can buy it afterwards. We have visited Santa many times in his office and he even gave Gooseberry a sticker "Santa's little helper" that is now on his retractable leash.

Our family picture with Santa
Santa's office building
Arctic circle line, 26 Sep 2023
Santa office entrance
Santa's village 26 Sep 2023
Gooseberry wants to say hi to an Elf
Gooseberry meeting the elf

Don't forget to visit Santa's post office and see all the letters coming in from all over the world. If you send a letter to ‘Santa at the North Pole’ or similar, it will end up here. You can also post a letter from there with the Santa's stamp on it! And you can order a letter coming directly from Santa (which we did a few times) to be delivered at Christmas to a child or an adult you specify. How amazing is that!

Santa's post office
Letters from all over the world, 5 March 2017

Paul writing letter to Santa
Paul writing letter to Santa, 5 March 2017

When we are in Rovaniemi, we often go to Santa's village, as there shops of 3 very iconic Finnish brands: Marimekko, Iittila and Pentik. Running a hotel, we always need something to buy there. But if we need to drive to Rovaniemi in December, then we avoid going to Santa's village, it's too busy for us. So if you want to avoid crowds, dont come in December. Santa is in his office all the time, you don't need to queue for hours (yes, this happens in December) to see him, just visit Lapland in other months.


There are also activities that you can do in Santa's village - meet his reindeer, go for a husky safari and much more, however in our opinion, they are quite commercial and set to the mass tourism of the place. Instead we recommend finding a small family run businesses around and book with them. Or if you travel to Levi after visiting Santa, you can do all the activities here. Please remember to book with local businesses this way you will support local community that lives in Lapland all year round. There are also several hotels in Santa's village to choose from but if you don't like crowds, you can stay somewhere calmer and just visit the village for a few hours trip.

Santa's cabin on snowy hill
Santa's cabin, Levi, 5 Feb 2021

Santa's childhood cabin in Levi

Every season we have guests who fly to Rovaniemi, visit Santa and then drive to Levi for their Lapland holiday. It's a nice 2 hours drive, there are also buses operating in this route.

Did you know that Santa's childhood cabin is in Levi? It's located on Levi hill and the viewes from it are spectacular. You can reach the cabin in 3 different ways. In our Lapland guide, we described in details how to find the cabin and we included all the pictures and exact directions, so you will not have troubles to find it.

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