3/2024 – 12/2024
We will open the new Santa Claus House complex in Elves Village in November – December 2024
Major construction work has begun in Elves Village!
We want to offer our customers even better Christmas experiences near Levi. In December 2024, we will open a unique Santa’s House complex and Santa’s Home. The expansion is designed to provide memorable and intimate encounters with Santa Claus all year round!
In the Santa’s House project, a new Santa’s House complex will be constructed in Köngäs, Kittilä, along with the Elves Center multipurpose building for experience program services and Santa’s Home as a separate building, with a total floor area of 1,000 m².
The building will open for tourism in December 2024, targeting especially families with children arriving from abroad. The complex is being built to enhance and develop experience services and to meet the growing year-round tourism demand.
Upon completion, the complex will employ 6 elves year-round. The building will house customer service areas, structures, and equipment needed for and supporting the productized experience services of the tenant, Hullu Poro Oy – new elements include Santa’s home, Santa’s reception area, a café, a souvenir shop, and the elves’ experience area.
The year-round Santa’s House complex includes:
– Doubling the capacity for Santa Claus meetings
– Café (177 m²) with approximately 100 customer seats
– Ice cream factory, rice porridge station, gourmet corner, and glögi sommelier
– Post office and the Elves’ Christmas Book Library
– Exhibition space (170 m²) in Santa Claus’s Great Hall
– Souvenir shop and Reindeer’s candy store (148 m²)
Santa’s Home
– Santa’s home office and safe
– Santa’s private cabin
– Santa’s bedroom
– Santa’s wardrobe collection
– Mrs. Claus’s kitchen and oven
Restaurant in Tonttula
– Breakfast, lunch, and half-board dinners
– À la carte
– 2 private rooms for 10 people each
– Meetings for up to 80 people
Other New Features!
– Secret hut for 50 people
– Northern Lights trails
– Public sauna sessions will double
– Elf programs also available in the evening
– Elf bus with 36 customer seats operates from Levi to Elves Village!
– All programs will include a visit to the reindeer enclosure in the future.
Long ago, in the Elves Village, Santa Claus sat at his home table, his eyes shining with excitement. Although Santa loved peace, he constantly yearned for activity. Santa wanted to see what was happening in Elves Village. Santa had a brilliant idea! He dreamed of a large mountain-shaped house that would bring joy to everyone and have enough space for the elves to work.
Santa Claus dreamed of a house with a roof so big it could even serve as a runway for the reindeer and where he could someday grow lichen. Santa chuckled a bit and continued dreaming. In his dreams, the house was big enough to accommodate at least a hundred people eating rice porridge at the same time. There should be something fun for Mrs. Claus too, so he added an ice cream factory to his dream drawings, where they would make ice cream using the berries of Lapland’s midnight sun and other natural delicacies. But above all, Santa wanted a house with large windows through which the beautiful northern lights and the midnight sun of summer could shine fully into the mountain house. Santa was now satisfied with his dream and the interior; Mrs. Claus would take care of that. Mrs. Claus had an eye for such things; the house should be warm, inviting, and always smell of freshly baked buns.
Santa’s heart beat with joy as he told his dream to his elves. The elves nodded eagerly and immediately began planning the house on large sheets of paper according to Santa’s vision. They felled trees and built the house’s frame, which rose high towards the sky, like a real mountain. On the roof of the house, they shaped a flat surface that perfectly resembled a reindeer runway.
When the house’s frame was ready, Mrs. Claus and the elves began decorating it according to Santa’s wishes. They built an ice cream factory in the house’s kitchen and installed a large oven for cooking rice porridge. The windows of the house were so large that one could see the northern sky, and children played outside!
But Santa did not forget the children. He wanted a warm play area in the house where children could laugh and play safely from the harsh winter frosts and autumn winds. So the elves built a large play area in one corner of the house, with soft carpets and colorful toys waiting. And so, in the Elves Village, stood Santa’s large mountain-shaped house, with room for everyone and filled with joy, cheer, and warmth. It was a place where everyone was welcome, and where Christmas dreams came true year-round.
One summer day, Santa was fishing in the Ounasjoki river, admiring his new mountain house, but then Santa became sad, realizing he wouldn’t want to leave at all anymore! Santa made a brave decision. He wanted his log home to be as close as possible to the new mountain-shaped house, which was full of joy and warmth. So Santa called his elves together and told them about his next plan. The elves jumped with joy, as they had always dreamed of Santa’s home being close to them. They immediately got to work, starting to move Santa’s home on rolling logs next to the mountain house. With the elves’ help, the house moved slowly, so they also called in the gnomes, their cousins from the Arctic Ocean, and the strongest people of Lapland for the moving work. The work continued with joyful chatter and the clink of tools filling the air. Finally, Santa’s home was in just the right place, right next to the new mountain-shaped house. The workers celebrated their task with rice porridge.
Santa could not have been happier. He walked between the new house and his old home, feeling in his heart that everything was just as it should be. Now Santa could always look out his window at his new house, which shone enchantingly from the mountain’s peak. And when he stepped out of his door, he could hear the joyful laughter of children and see the elves’ activities in the new mountain-shaped house. And Santa smiled, knowing that his dream had finally come true.