I would like to go to Rovaniemi with my 3,5-years-old daughter during last weekend in March.
Did anybody have been their before with the small children?
Is the trip by night train not too boring for kids?
What is must-see there and what is not money worth?
Rovaniemi with Child
Re: Rovaniemi with Child
My children loved the night train when we did it a long time ago, when they were 4 and 2, if memory serves. My son, who is 8, also loved it when we took the night train to Kemijärvi last summer. There's no specific reason why it should be fun for children. It just is. Even buying a stale crossaint for 3 euros in the bar in the morning is exciting, just because being on the night train makes it exciting.
We've been to Rovaniemi with kids many, many times. The best place to stay, if you have kids and time to kill, has been at the Santasport urheilupuisto, which has cheap hostel rooms, hotel rooms and cottages for rent. There is a kids play jungle type thing, a variety of swimming pools, and peddle cars and a race track. Actually, the main problem becomes getting the kids to want to leave and go do something interesting for adults. It's possible to get a workout while the kids are in the play jungle, but you can only do so many of those.
The arctic center is good, and some things in there are interesting to some children. There is an art museum, which also might be interesting to some children, but not others. We visited the forestry musuem, which is a big advertisement for the Finnish paper industry, and the logging museum which the kids liked a lot.
A great loss to the city was when Lelu-Tapuli closed. We spent many hours in there, me waiting for my wife to finish her work so we could go do something interesting, and my kids hoping she never would finish so that they could play in the ball pit without interference.
We've been to Rovaniemi with kids many, many times. The best place to stay, if you have kids and time to kill, has been at the Santasport urheilupuisto, which has cheap hostel rooms, hotel rooms and cottages for rent. There is a kids play jungle type thing, a variety of swimming pools, and peddle cars and a race track. Actually, the main problem becomes getting the kids to want to leave and go do something interesting for adults. It's possible to get a workout while the kids are in the play jungle, but you can only do so many of those.
The arctic center is good, and some things in there are interesting to some children. There is an art museum, which also might be interesting to some children, but not others. We visited the forestry musuem, which is a big advertisement for the Finnish paper industry, and the logging museum which the kids liked a lot.
A great loss to the city was when Lelu-Tapuli closed. We spent many hours in there, me waiting for my wife to finish her work so we could go do something interesting, and my kids hoping she never would finish so that they could play in the ball pit without interference.