monkeyfeet155
16 Jan 2025
Snowtrain safari in the Lappish forest near the Apukka resort is another good winter adventure to try. The excursion includes, guide, winter clothing, snow train ride, hot drink with BBQ sausages. The snow train consists of large cabins with small heaters being pulled by a Snowcat machine that seats about 10 people in each cabin. Couple of things to bear in mind, listening to the Apukka Adventure people who hand out the winter clothing kit, they know what they're talking about to keep warm. You might be lucky and see the Auroras, but no guarantee. The BBQ takes place in a tent/teepee with an open fire, you will also smell like a BBQ at the end of the evening, but worth it!
Absolutely flippin awful! Don’t waste your money! Walk about 15 mins first in pitch black, black ice with hardly any light to actually get to the train which was rickety and we were on it 20 mins to then face another death trap of a walk to get to a tent. We were that bored I actually fell asleep!!! Don’t bother
lauragQ9054ED
04 Nov 2024
We booked this tour for our family of 4, 2 adults and 2 kids, and the experience was bad from the beginning. As we got there, my young daughter got that scared when the guide told her she could die over there if she wasn't wearing the right clothes, that she refused to go to the tour. Have to say, he was right about the clothes and we had the thermal overalls with us to use , but even after putting them on, she was that scare of the guide and the idea of dying, that we couldn't manage to convince her to go. That was the end of the tour for her and my husband, who stayed with her .We decided I was still gonna go with my 12 years old son. Thinks just got worse after that. The train is not a train, just a carriage,and to get there we had to go walking and cross the main road , in the dark. Once we went into the carriage, we drove for about 15 minutes to the forrest , where we went down and had to walk for another 15-20 min in the middle of the snow and through the forrest to get to the hut , with only a headlight from the guide and using the lights on our mobiles. As the activity is recommended for families, and in the photos the train is beside the hut,we weren't expecting that, and my 12 years just panicked. There is no explanation at all when you book the tour, and the photos are misleading, with a proper snow train and beside the hut. He got so scared that he just sat down on the snow and refused to move when the group stopped to take pictures. It was -16 C ,so he got painfully cold and couldn't even move to go near the fire when we finally got to the hut. At no stage the guide came and asked if he was OK or offer any help,and when I realised that he was having a proper panick attack and we needed to leave, I was told I would need to bring him back to the train on my own as the guide couldn't leave the group behind. I understand he had to do a tour for everybody, but I can't understand how they thought that to send a child on distress, with a full panick attack through a forrest covered in snow, with a temperature of -16 c and pitch black, having only the light on my phone was considered safe. We had to stop several times because he was petrified, and when we eventually got to the train, had to wait for almost another hour for them to come back. I don't blame them for the whole situation, but I'm so upset a child was put in danger because their bad organisation and the lack of empathy of the person in charge. These tours are not cheap, and I hope they look into a back-up plan in the future so no other child has to suffer how he did. The guide never came to see if we got to the carriage OK, never asked how he was feeling, nothing. A total disaster and the worst experience ever.