Exploring SANTA CLAUSE VILLAGE in FINLAND 🇫🇮 (Rovaniemi)

For the next 24 hours, we're exploring Santa Claus village in Rovaniemi, Finland. We're incredibly excited to share all that this magical town has to offer. We're in a winter wonderland out here. Crazy. I'm excited to explore this place. Yeah, we got a lot to explore. So if you missed our last video, we took the Santa Claus Express last night overnight to get here. And we did get a sleeper cabin, but I got like no sleep. But this is really making up for it, that's for sure. I can't believe we have snow. I'm just so excited. I love Christmas. I love Santa. And he's here today. And I'm so excited. We got to go find him. We'll find him later. We got to do a whole tour. Look at it. Oh my word, that one's ours. It's our room. Oh, I'm doing a dance. This is my excited dance. And come on into our cabin for a tour. So right when you get inside, you have the phone reception and you also have a really nicely sized closet with hangers, an umbrella and a dustpan. There's also storage space on top. Then once you come inside, they have this super cute Do Not Disturb sign. It says, well, this is the Finnish version, I'm assuming, but in English it says, Dreaming of Christmas, Please Do Not Disturb. And then walking farther into the room, you have a couch with a super cute reindeer blanket and red and gray pillows. It's very Christmassy in here because it's so red. And then you have a huge, I'm going to say it's king size bed. It's also the classic Scandinavian style with the two separate duvets instead of the one big one. And they even have like the separate beds kind of put together on the sides of the bed. We each have our own nightstand and light, and we also have our own outlets to charge things. Then facing the bed is a ton more storage space. Look at how much luggage we could fit in here. It's crazy. Iron score. Oh, surprise. We also have an iron and more hangers. Oh, my word. I'm so excited about this. We have complimentary Santa Claus Village robes. Wow. Look at these robes. These are comfortable. We're all Santa Claus now. Santa Village. Last thing I want to mention about this side of the room. There is a huge flat screen TV. Let's move to the other side of the room. On this side, you have a full kitchenette with a microwave, a two burner stove, a sink, Keurig or coffee maker, a water boiler, a dishwasher. Look at this full dishwasher, a trash can area, a fridge. Oh, yeah. You have a light and a fan. And then in here you have a ton of mugs and cups for all your drinks. And in here you have cleaning supplies if you need to clean your dishes. We also have a fully wooden dining room table with beautiful red tablecloths and a candle display and more storage space. And the final touch, which is one of my favorite parts about the room, I think this reindeer antler chandelier. Look how beautiful it is. It really complements the whole Christmas Santa vibe. Finally, the bathroom. We're going to do this one quick. We have all the bathroom things, a toilet, sink, mirror. They do have a bidet. Fancy. They also have a shower on this side of the room. They also have complimentary slippers. Then finally, the best part of the entire place. We have a private sauna all to ourselves. So this is where you change the temperature. I think we're going to have to turn it on all by ourself. And then this is the water that you put on top of the hot rocks to make it steam. And then you sit there and enjoy. Saunas are a huge thing in Finnish culture. They actually have more saunas than they do cars in Finland. It's crazy. That experience is kind of crazy. And that's the tour. Let's move on. So now we're going to go explore this whole village and all that it has to offer. I'm excited. Christmas village. Santa's village. Oh, I can't grab it. How'd you get snow on your back? I wonder how. Was that cool or what? This village is just so random. It seems. It's just like a bunch of red little cabins in the middle of northern Finland. It's like a resort. It's like the most popular tourist destination in all of Finland. Interesting enough. Starting off these festivities with Santa Claus's post office. This is so fun. They have a ton of postcards on my right, stuffed animals on my left. There's elves you can find. There's magnets. Wow. So here at the post office, you can write postcards to anyone you want and they can send it to your home for an extra two euro 50 along with the card price along with like sending it home. You can either send it right away or you can have it delayed until Christmas. So it's like a Christmas postcard. You can also write a letter to Santa and you can get a letter from Santa. Eritrea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, India, Iraq. Apparently this office receives about 500,000 letters from all over the world every year. I have a lot of family, so I'm writing all postcards from the Arctic circle and then you get a stamp. It's unique. It's sick. It's taking a lot of time though. My hand already hurts. That was a lot of writing. All right, let's go send them. The stamps. Look how cute they are. Let's keep exploring. Thank you. This is the official Santa Claus. Yep. It's the Christmas house. So it has Santa Claus, a gifts, souvenir shop, a coffee house. It's got a lot in here. Wow. It smells so good in here. It smells like cinnamon. And Christmas. It smells like Christmas. Yeah. Wow. This gift shop has so much. It has clothes and hats and reindeer hides. It has stuffed animal elves. Any like trinket or like winter souvenir you could possibly think of. They have it here. Lots of Santas too, of course. All right. You ready to meet Santa? Yeah, let's go. This whole Santa village is pretty touristy and kind of kitschy, but that doesn't mean it's not fun. All right. It is time. Oh my word. I caught a glimpse of him. It's time. I like your big, beautiful beard. It was reaching to the floor, but this is what's coming to the floor. Now, when you have Christmas there, I give you advice. Once a week you give a massage. Oh yeah. I believe that this park runs right through the Arctic circle and that is literally 66 degrees, 32 minutes. I want to say 35. I think that is the Arctic circle line. I think it's this one. So at the restaurant, three elves, you can have dinner or breakfast or whatever meal in the igloo. Yeah. It's like they have a table at each one. That's crazy. That's so fun. There's a lot. Let's go. We just checked the radar. There might be Northern lights outside. They're right there. They're right there. We just saw them. They're in there right there. I don't want us to not look at them though. I know. I got all my glasses. I got to take pictures. Four of them. There's like four streets, right? Let's go to the dark. I never thought we could actually see the lights as actual lights, but this time you can. They are like the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in nature. I wish we could look at that. You can see them so clearly in the video. Guys, they are so, so bright. It's so beautiful. Oh, I hope that the camera does it justice because it's like a whole streak in the sky. What? Look at those. Can you guys see this huge thing in the sky right now? It's streaking the entire sky. What a treat. Santa Claus village. You don't even have to do a tour. You just go outside. We're literally so lucky. Thanks for watching guys. Appreciate it. You help us go find these kinds of adventures. So yeah, appreciate you. This is insane. Good morning everybody. We just woke up and we were about to go to breakfast, which is included with the price of the stay and we're really excited. Yeah. And if you get tall, it's snowing right now. And there's like a couple inches coated on the ground. This is insane. It's snowing so hard. Wow. It's so pretty. Morning everybody. They have a pretty good here. I'll show you. They have a huge selection of breakfast comes included veggies, eggs, croissant, tomato, brownie, hard boiled eggs. Gotta get that protein. You know what I'm saying? I had the best sleep I've had so far on this entire trip to Europe in the bed at the cabin. Like it is so comfortable, so big and so soft. The Arctic circle walk. Ready? There are a few more things that we want to see that closed yesterday. We didn't get a chance, so we're going to get all our stuff and then walk over. It's so nice. This place is so nice. There's real reindeer. So it's Santa Claus village. They also have reindeer rides. If we had more time, we would totally do it because it's snowing and it's just beautiful. But there's two reindeer right here. Huge antlers covered in snow. It's so awesome. They really feel like Christmas. Hey buddy. And they have an awesome fire right in front of the reindeer things so we can get warm. Yeah. And you sit on reindeer pelts right here. Right here too. You have snowmobiles that you can rent and take them around and there's little ones even for the kiddos. I don't know if you can see that right there. This place is so fun. So much stuff to do. If you keep walking down, there's also a Husky park. There's so cute. There's so many little doggies running around. And you can actually, I think, go on a ride with them too. Like dog sledding. Unfortunately we're in a hurry to leave, but all this stuff would be so cool. Like riding behind the reindeer, riding behind the dogs, you know? Just read this sign. FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt were here on a humanitarian effort because there were a bunch of efforts in Lapland and they came and they built this log cabin in two days to host them. And now that's called the Roosevelt cabin. Was FDR Franklin Roosevelt here too? Oh, gotcha. Wow. That's super cool. FDR wasn't here guys. Yeah, he had passed away. But Eleanor was here. Wonderful lady in there said that I guess nothing was here and that Eleanor wanted to cross the Arctic circle like we did. And then she, um, yeah, she came and they had just built that in a few days for her. Cause it was just for us back then. Yeah. And then it was the first post office, the first cafe, the first everything souvenir shop. So she started it. Yeah. That's so cool. I love little history facts like that. You know? Yeah. Okay, made it to the bus. End of this vlog. Stay tuned for more. Subscribe. Bye.