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This article will give some personal travel suggestions for a trip to Kiruna, the northernmost city in Sweden, to chase the Aurora based on a family of four with two children. I hope this will be helpful to friends who are planning or planning to go to Northern Europe to chase the Aurora.
Reading a long article may take more than 20 minutes. If you have not yet planned to go to Kiruna to start an aurora trip (due to the epidemic, it is estimated that few people will come to Sweden 😅😅😅), it is recommended to collect it in the future when your friends have time to chase the aurora, it may save you a lot of time!
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For this trip, the author's family arrived at Kiruna (the northernmost city in Sweden with an airport) via the points redemption flight of SAS Airlines from GOT-STO-KRN. The total mileage cost is 30,000 plus taxes and fees of 2,200 SEK. With the Swedish credit card, the Go cabin booked was automatically upgraded to the Plus cabin, so you can use the SAS Lounge (lounge) in Gothenburg and Stockholm and check in 2 pieces of luggage, which reduces a lot of fatigue during the transfer. The trip saved us more than 12,000krona in airfare. If you are interested in how to earn 30,000 airline miles, you can follow this article and search for the article <[Sweden] and don’t miss it! ! ! SAS gives you a free domestic trip every year > Learn how to earn a free domestic trip from SAS every year
Amex Platinum upgraded Sixt Group C class car
Disadvantages: The facilities are relatively old and there are fewer types of breakfast. The front desk service level is very average. For friends in Sweden, especially those who want to earn hotel points or SAS points when staying in a hotel, need to note : Although it can accumulate SAS airline points (500 per night for normal stays) SAS airline miles), but if you book a room at a hotel in this group during the discount period, no points and valid room nights will be accumulated , and other expenses such as hotel dining/meeting rooms will be charged if the room is booked. Fees do not even accumulate basic points. I have never seen such a weird membership points rule, so the price-performance ratio for this hotel is indeed very low. The author himself did not accumulate any points during this stay (booking on the Xmax official website during the promotion period), even if the normal consumption of hotel restaurant meals is added to the room, points will not be given. If you book a room in this hotel during the discount period, the best thing to do is not to eat in the room, but pay directly by showing your membership number
Advantages: It is located in the center of the city, just downstairs is Kiruna center and tourist center, within walking distance to Kiruna the famous church. Currently Kiruna is the only hotel with a gym (unexpectedly it is not open during the epidemic ), I booked this hotel because of this;
Scandic Ferrum's location
Scandic FerrumHotel exterior
Camp Rapin (Recommended index: ⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Disadvantages: Although it is also in Kiruna city, it is not within walking distance of Kiruna Center. I believe some friends think that from google map it seems that the hotel is not too far from the city. But if you come here in winter, considering the heavy snowfall and the temperature of about minus 20°, it will still be a challenge to walk to the center or the scenic church. When I was staying at ScandicFerrum, I went to Stejk Street Food (I will introduce this restaurant in a moment) and walked there once. Later, I chose to drive over this distance. You should know that the best distance to walk in a place like this is within sight distance😂😂😂
Advantages: independent rooms (called radhus in Sweden, townhouses ), backed by the city's famous hiking and cross ski hillsides Midnattssolstigen. You can hike just outside the house. There are several hillsides. In winter, children can play here all day on a ski. There are free skateboards at the door of the hotel that you can borrow for free. The hotel has a swimming pool and an open-air SPA ( paid ) . If the aurora is strong enough, you can soak in the SPA to watch the aurora.
Camp Rapin location
Icehotel (recommendation index: ⭐⭐)
Advantages: Icehotel is its own business card. Since 1989, the hotel has invited ice sculpture artists from all over the world to carve art-level ice sculptures for some of the hotel's igloo rooms every winter. This is also rare. A different kind of experience (Picture 5Icehotel #31 means that this year happens to be the 31st year). The hotel is divided into two types of rooms: 1. The real icehotel is a room completely made of ice (this type of room is only available from October to February of the next year, and will be built again the next year after the snow melts. The price for one night is 4,000+ kroner😱😱😱, and it is very cold (the temperature in the room is about minus 5°😱😱😱); 2. Ordinary rooms are almost the same as normal hotel rooms, and they are not very attractive.
Icehotel location
Overview of the hotel’s appearance (31 has special meaning😜)
Room overview
List of city attractions:
cathedral exterior 1
cathedral exterior 2
Camp RapinHoushan Park
Icehotel(Recommendation Index:⭐⭐)
Impressive second course
Underwhelming main course
Camp Rapin (Recommended index: ⭐⭐⭐)
Stejk Street Food(Recommended index:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Empes (recommended index: ⭐⭐⭐)
A unique drive-in fast food restaurant, similar to the origin of Burger king. They mainly focus on making grill burger. However, Kiruna are of shamanic origin, so they use a large amount of venison, including reindeer and elk. So this burger joint also offers burgers made with elk meat. But their Special menu’s sauce is rather strange, and I don’t know why they put mashed potatoes in the burger as sauce
Arctic Thai &Grill ( recommendation index: ⭐⭐⭐⭐)
A decent Thai restaurant, menu There are many set meals to choose from. The price/performance ratio is relatively high, and it’s a good choice if you’re tired of Western-style meals and want to change your taste. The restaurant also provides salad bar and cookie bar with different vegetable and dessert options. Because the biggest headache when traveling is insufficient vegetable intake, I chose this restaurant and ordered a meal that tasted pretty good. But what’s more important is the fruits and vegetables provided by salad bar