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Santa’s Lapland suspends December 2020 trips

Booking will open from early November, but families can pre-register now for priority booking on the Santa’s Lapland website.

The UK Santa break specialist, Santa’s Lapland, cancelled all December 2020 trips to visit Santa in Lapland – following concerns that increasing COVID-19 safety measures and travel restrictions would take too much away from the magic of the experience.

Paul Carter, Hotelplan UK CEO said; “It is with great sadness, that we have regretfully made the extremely difficult decision to suspend all trips to Santa’s Lapland in December 2020. We know that this will come as an enormous disappointment to our customers, therefore it is not a decision we have taken lightly. Despite tremendous efforts by our partners in Finland to find a way to allow travel to Lapland to go ahead this December, there are still a number of conditions in place, which are not easily overcome.

Above all, we know a trip to see Santa is a once in a lifetime experience and we want to ensure that it’s as magical as our customers expect it to be. Over the past few months, we’ve been continually reviewing what the Santa experience will look like for families this year and listening to our customer’s concerns.

Our top priority has always been to keep everyone safe and in order to do this, we would have to make some changes to the holiday experience. We felt that those changes would impact too much on the magical experience.

For those customers who have been impacted, we hope they will choose to join us next year to visit Santa and his Elves, but if not, and they wish to receive a refund, we will arrange this instead.”

Thanking their customers for their patience over the past couple of months whilst they waited for a decision. The Lapland experience specialists stressed that their intention is to continue to do right by their customers, and has been throughout the pandemic, with the measures set out in their ‘In Safe Hands’ campaign.

New for December 2020 – Santa, Live from Lapland.
This Christmas, Santa’s Lapland will help families experience the magic from the comfort of their own home.

Santa’s Lapland
While 2020 physical trips will no longer go ahead, Santa’s Lapland are offering families the chance to meet the real Santa over video call – live from Lapland, in the safety of their living room.

The 10-minute video call will prove its genuine Lapland credentials, as an Elf leads the family through the snow and gets up-close with a reindeer, before going live to Santa’s cabin for a personalised meeting with Santa himself.

Whether there are lockdowns locally or across the entire UK over the next few months, families will still be able to experience some of the excitement that is seeing the real Santa in his snowy cabin in 2020. A personalised ‘Santa, Live from Lapland’ video call experience will be available for up to 4 children from £85 per family.

Booking will open from early November, but families can pre-register now for priority booking on the Santa’s Lapland website.

In 2021, once again families will be able to visit Santa in Lapland and fill Christmas with awe in the marvellous, winter wonderland. Santa’s Lapland trips are available to reserve now with departures on 26 November to 24 December 2021, and deposits of just £150 per person. So, children can still start getting excited about full length, snow fun adventures now. Husky sledding and reindeer sleigh rides, a search for Santa and loads of other enchanted activities are all included in the price. Along with flights from a choice of 14 regional airports and different accommodation options.

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