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• Beautiful excursion

  alexandrsg2025,

  Mar 5, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Well organized. At the Apukka Resort you could borrow the winter clothes. Approximately half-hour round trip with the reindeer sleigh. Then tea, cookies and information about reindeer and then you could feed the animals.

  

• Reindeer Sleigh Ride at night

  monkeyfeet155,

  Jan 16, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  4.00

  This was a great experience in the Finland forest with about 11 Reindeer pulling 11 sleighs. The experience includes, sleigh ride, guide, hot drink and BBQ sausages on an open fire, and essential winter clothing. The guides are knowledgable and ensure you have fun and stay warm. We were so lucky, the Aurora lights turned up for a photo opportunity. Couple of things to bear in mind, its cold, take note of the advice from the Apukka Adventure Clothing people when they issue you with the kit, they know what they're talking about! The sleigh is not comfortable, you sit on a Reindeer hide on a wooden sleigh, so if you suffer with back problems, this will be uncomfortable. The ride is 30-40 minutes each way. The tent/teepee that you have the BBQ in has an open fire in the middle, you will come out smelling like a BBQ as well, but its worth it.

• Magic

  josephkG5855BN,

  Jan 2, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Truly amazing a most do when in Lapland. The two ladies who were in charge of the reindeer's were so friendly and professional. Really enjoyed this.

• Didn't do the activity

  Wendy G,

  Dec 22, 2024

  - Review from Viator

  1.00

  We were 10 mins late so didn't do the activity we had no phone call ,we phoned them. we had a car we could have met the coach at the reindeer centre,but they didn't give the address to us. We couldn't rebook as all other rides were fully booked.

• Magic

  margherita2507,

  Dec 14, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  4.00

  Fairytale landscape. The sweetest reindeer make the experience unique. Reindeer sleigh ride in Finnish nature. First, a guide explains reindeer and herding life and offers you a hot tea and excellent Lapland biscuits. Activities to try.

• Beautiful day in Apukka

  163oskark,

  Mar 29, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  We loved the reindeer sleigh ride. The duration wasn't too short either, it was a real experience. The ride went through the forest and over a frozen lake...beautiful! Afterwards you can eat very well in the restaurant (lunch buffet, highly recommended).

• Not recommended! Animal welfare is not taken into account!

  ZwMichelle1,

  Feb 23, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  1.00

  First of all, the shuttle was 30 minutes late, so we stood in the cold for 45 minutes with a 2-year-old child. When we got there, we were taken to the reindeer. The first 20 meters took a good 10 minutes because the reindeer didn't want to walk. After that, we walked about 100 meters. After they didn't want to walk again, two reindeer were swapped, with one reindeer's tongue hanging out as if it couldn't go on. Then we went another 100 meters until one reindeer fell to the ground and couldn't get up. Whereup the guide, I assume because he spoke Finnish, screamed for help. Nobody came, minutes went by. He screamed again and again and tried to hold the first reindeer down in order to, I assume, go to the lying reindeer. After about 10 minutes, a female guide finally came and "pushed" the reindeer up even though it couldn't get up. We got out of the sleigh and I told them that this was animal cruelty! The female guide then said that the reindeer are just not in a good mood. I then said that you shouldn't do something like that. We should get back in and wait. We decided to walk back as long as we could see the sleighs they didn't move, which took another 10 minutes and after that we had no visual contact. This is pure animal cruelty where the animal's needs are not taken into account. If an animal is lying on the ground and is obviously unable to get up, that is not animal-friendly! The answer we received was that the animal felt comfortable, so it lay down! We are very aware that many different circumstances led to this experience, but as an organizer you have to be ready and cancel an event if the conditions are not met for whatever reason! In my opinion, it's pure greed for profit! Apart from that, I found out that a reindeer has a pulling power of a maximum of 175kg. We were two adults and a child, and had a lot of clothes on, heavy winter boots, a camera, a backpack, etc. You can't forget the sleigh either, mathematically it doesn't work out with 175kg, even if you do the math in favor of the organizer. According to Get your guide, it's a tour in a small group of a maximum of 10 people. I didn't count, but there were at least 20 people, if not more.

• To the managing Director...

  gita c,

  Jan 31, 2024

  - Review from Viator

  1.00

  To the managing Director Apukka adventures. It is to my great dismay that on 29 January 2023, we attended a reindeer sledge ride at approximately 2 pm. It was extraordinarily distressing and traumatic for all concerned. I question that the reindeers have been abused, as they were very distressed, trying to get put into the sledge and then walking in a straight line. Resulting from this distress and query mal treatment of these animals several reindeers got tangled in the ropes of the sledges, jumping and butting each other ,sledges overturned ,people in the sledges were thrown out, and several sledges were broken. This is unacceptable, I query how you have been registered as a tour operator . I request a full refund of my money immediately. I will be taking further action in relation to this incident. Regards, Gita Chandra

• Terrible , Dangerous

  Rania1177,

  Jan 29, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  1.00

  It was a terrible experience. The reindeers we're very distresses and agitated. The Reindeers jolted off together out of control. They turned one of the sledges which was carrying people. The sledge broke. One of the staff members fell. The animals trampled over each other and became entangled. Clearly the animals we're not prepared or ready to be doing this type of work and it's extremely dangerous for tourists, staff and animals. 4 of us were very distressed and left. Then others followed after another attempt at swapping out some of the animals. Concerned for animal welfare.

• Great! Got to feed and...

  Jennifer P,

  Dec 29, 2023

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  Great! Got to feed and pet the reindeer. enjoyed a long ride through the snowy forest on a magical sleigh ride.

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