 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Although we had a fantastic week in Lapland the first week of January 09, I would not recommend Ruka, or Inghams!
We stayed in a self catered cabin, and thank god we did because the prices in restaurants for food and drink were crazy - 11 euros for a small glass of wine, and 6 euros for less than a pint of beer and 66 euros for two mains and a bottle of house white! We were told this is because of the tax to stop people binge drinking.
The off licence closes at 6 (supermarkets only sell beer and cider) so you have to get it quick after finishing skiing, then be sure not to miss the bus which only runs every hour to the cabins.
From the sounds of it Levi is a better place to go, because at least you've got more going on - Ruka was dead pretty much after 7 or 8pm.
I'd also think twice about using Inghams. The have a sneaky policy of screwing a bit more money out of their guests which works like this: A) advertise trips, ski hire and ski passes in euros; B) tell guests at the Inghams welcome meeting that all their rates are cheaper than the official Piste Building's rates because Inghams have kept 2008 prices, and they can pay by card; C) process payments for said trips but charge the customer in pounds not euros at an over inflated exchange rate, when the customer's only other options are to pay in cash, which would involve leaving the family waiting around in the cold for another hour, because by the time the customer has trekked across the village centre to the cash point he will have missed the bus back to the cabins because they only run every hour and finally D) send a letter in reply to the customer's complaint that they use a "commercial exchange rate" and "we are advised by our representatives that this is explained to all guests at the time of the transaction". Well, Inghams, your reps would say that wouldn't they, because by then they have processed the transaction to help hit their targets for upselling a certain value of trips. The overall additional costs of three days ski passes for 2 adults and ski hire for 1 was over 50 quid more than if we'd just paid the few extra euros, on our card at Nationwide's rates (no fees!) at the Piste Building.
Finally also heard lots of people that were in larger parties than us (and were given two separate cabins) saying that the standard of cabins, for the same price, were vastly different. Ours was nice, but we paid and additional supplement for the "spare room" which was in fact a couple of old matresses chucked on the mezzanine level in the roof.
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