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Here at Best Served Scandinavia we our passionate on everything Scandinavia. We have expertise in Scandinavia summer holidays through our industry experience and our blend of Scandinavian consultants. All our summer holidays can be tailored to deliver the precise mix of destinations and experiences required. So have a look at the below summer holiday offers and itineraries for a starting point then contact us and tell us what you want to do, so we can start to design that special summer holiday experience for you. Below are some of our current Scandinavian Summer holiday offers including Finland summer holidays, Iceland summer holidays, Norway summer holidays and Sweden summer holidays. Furthermore we have expertise in Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Greenland & Latvia.

Iceland Winter Holidays

Our top Iceland Winter Holidays

The below itineraries show a sample of Iceland Winter Holidays. If nothing takes your fancy then please call one of Scandinavian experts on 020 7838 5956

Hidden Powers of the South winter tour

Iceland Winter Holidays from £1135.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

5 nights

Icebergs, hot springs and volcanoes reign over Iceland’s beautiful landscapes. 

On this tour discover Iceland’s raw, magnificent nature including the notorious Eyjafjallajokull volcano, and the power concealed within the earth. This power can sometimes be harnessed for useful purposes, including your personal enjoyment!..



Discover the unknown - super truck expedition

Iceland Winter Holidays from £835.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

3 nights

There are many things to discover in Iceland in winter, provided you have the right transportation. On this tour you’ll be taken by super-truck on an amazing expedition through snow and rivers, over glaciers and mountains and along black sandy beaches. Departing on a Thursday, you’ll arrive in time for a relaxing soak in the famous Blue Lagoon, leaving yo..



Wellness weekend in Iceland

Iceland Winter Holidays from £680.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

3 nights

This four-day break is designed to relax your body and mind while showcasing the natural beauty that Iceland has to offer. You’ll spend two nights in Reykjavik with a third by the mineral-rich waters of the Blue Lagoon. The Hilton Reykjavik Nordica boasts a wonderful spa, allowing you to de-stress the moment you check in. That evening, you’ll
depar..



Brief encounter - Reykjavik

Iceland Winter Holidays from £600.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

4 nights

Reykjavik skyline is a colorful mix of red and green rooftop houses which nestle along the fjord with a backdrop of majestic mountains.

The Viking Arnason founded the capital in AD874 and named it Reykjavik, meaning ’Smoky Bay’ after seeing the steam rising from the hot springs. Reykjavik is home to more than a dozen mu..



Northern Lights Special, Iceland

Iceland Winter Holidays from £925.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

4 nights

Lake Myvatn is one of the best places in the world to view the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). It is also an area of outstanding natural beauty where you can discover the wonders of the Icelandic winter landscape.

During this break you can relax and watch some of the natural wonders or spend a few days enjoying activities such a..



Romantic getaway in Iceland

Iceland Winter Holidays from £620.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

3 nights

Escape to Iceland for a romantic getaway! Stay in a luxurious countryside hotel and sip champagne in a hot tub (hopefully) under the Northern Lights.

Iceland has the perfect setting for a romantic break; log cabin hotels in the countryside, hot tubs, Northern Lights and natural wonders. On arrival to the airport you’ll pick u..



New Year in Reykjavik

Iceland Winter Holidays from £785.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

3 nights

Celebrate New Year in Reykjavik, Iceland’s cool capital!

On New Year’s Eve in Reykjavik, Iceland sees what is probably one of the biggest firework displays in the whole world. Every family buys lots of fireworks and the whole evening becomes one big display lighting up the Iceland sky. You will also enjoy a sumptuous Ga..



Northern Lights in Reykjavik

Iceland Winter Holidays from £455.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

3 nights

Reykjavik skyline is a colorful mix of red and green rooftop houses which nestle along the fjord with a backdrop of majestic mountains.

The Viking Arnason founded the capital in AD874 and named it Reykjavik, meaning ’Smoky Bay’ after seeing the steam rising from the hot springs. Reykjavik is home to more than a dozen mu..



Aurora Adventure in Iceland

Iceland Winter Holidays from £870.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

4 nights

The Northern Lights are undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and beautiful of nature’s phenomena. And what better place to view these eerie, silent displays of dancing electrons than on Europe’s largest ice cap, the mesmerising Vatnajökull Glacier in southeast Iceland? Your holiday starts with a night in Reykjavik before you fly to Höfn, a picturesque ..



Whale Fjord & Reykjavik

Iceland Winter Holidays from £805.00 per person

Tour destination: Iceland

4 nights

If sitting in a geothermal hot tub watching the Northern Lights sounds like a heavenly way to kick off your honeymoon or romantic getaway then you should check yourself in to the Hotel Glymur, a wonderfully tranquil boutique hotel set high on a hill above Hvalfjordur (Icelandic for ‘whale fjord’). Though just 45 minutes from Reykjavik, it’s glorious..



Norway Winter Holidays

Our top Norway Winter Holidays

The below itineraries show a sample of Norway Winter Holidays. If nothing takes your fancy then please call one of Scandinavian experts on 020 7838 5956

Classic Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel break

Winter Holidays from £1125.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 nights

Norwegian Lapland – or Finnmark as it is also known, is the home to Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel, formerly known as Alta Igloo Hotel. Every year the fantastic hotel is built from a scratch with impressive design and exquisite work of ice art offering visitors a truly memorable experience. This year will be its 11th winter.

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Winter wedding at Sorrisniva Igloo, Norway

Winter Holidays from £2395.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

4 nights

Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel is located in Norwegian Lapland near the town of Alta. Its intimate atmosphere and beautiful designs have helped establish it as one the most romantic and remarkable of the world’s designer igloos. Though the ceremony will take place in Sorrisniva’s Ice Chapel – beautifully decorated with hand-crafted ice sculptures – yo..


Northern Lights in Alta, Norway

Winter Holidays from £690.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 nights

Alta – the town of the Northern Lights – is a natural destination to see this spectacular sight and perfect starting point for an arctic adventure. Alta earned its name as a town of the Northern Lights after the world’s first observatory was built there at the end of the 19th century. Today Alta has lost none of its appeal as a ‘Northern Light..


Northern Lights in Tromso, Norway

Winter Holidays from £570.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 nights

Tromso is situated right in the centre of the Northern Lights zone and is, therefore, among the best places on earth to observe this natural phenomenon. In order to see the lights, it must be dark and clear which is the main reason that we do not see them between May and August. The best time to look for them is between 6pm and 2am. Some visitors prefer to see the pe..


Arctic Experience in Kirkenes, Norway

Winter Holidays from £1720.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

4 nights

Experience the unspoilt wilderness and stunning scenery of the Arctic in Kirkenes. Catch king crabs, drive your own husky team, take a snowmobile safari on the top of the fells and finish off the Arctic Experience in a cool and exotic way: staying in Kirkenes Snow Hotel!

Kirkenes is located in Northern Norway close to the Finnish a..


Husky safari in Norwegian Lapland

Winter Holidays from £1995.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

4 nights

Join Sven Engholm, the 11 time champion of Europe’s longest husky race and his eager huskies for a 4 day long winter break. Enjoy an all action adventure in the unspoilt nature of Norwegian Lapland.

Engholm’s Husky Lodge is located in the heart of Norwegian Lapland next to the Karasjohka river. Sven has built the log ca..


5G excitement in Lillehammer

Winter Holidays from £770.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 nights

Ever dreamt of riding a genuine Olympic style bobsled? Lillehammer, host of the Olympic Games in 1994, is home to Northern Europe’s only artificially frozen bobsleigh and luge track.

Start with bob rafting in a rubber bobsled, seating 5-6 people plus the experiended pilot and reaching speeds of up to 80-100km/hour. Then its t..


Kirkenes Snow Hotel, Norway

Winter Holidays from £945.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 nights

Experience the unspoilt wilderness and stunning scenery of the Arctic in Kirkenes. Catch king crabs, drive your own husky team, take a snowmobile safari on the top of the fells and finish off the holiday in a cool and exotic way: staying in Kirkenes Snow Hotel!

Kirkenes is located in Northern Norway close to the Finnish and Russian..


Snowy honeymoon in Norway

Winter Holidays from £1495.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

5 nights

Norway is a perfect setting for a snowy honeymoon offering beautiful and exotic scenery and high standards of service and cuisine.

Our 6 day itinerary starts with a stay in the Norwegian capital and its best hotel: Grand Hotel. The Grand Hotel first opened its doors in 1874. The Louis XVI revival style building, with its hint of No..


Grand tour of Norwegian Lapland

Winter Holidays from £2290.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

5 nights

Experience the delights of Norwegian Lapland on this exclusive tour!

Norwegian Lapland, or Finnmark is a wonderful destination for a winter holiday. Here you will experience what it is like to sleep in an igloo, drive your own dog sled, hunt for the Northern Lights, visit North Cape, catch a king crab and drive a snowmobile.

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Cruise into the Northern Lights

Winter Holidays from £949.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

4 nights

Hurtigruten ships have been an integral part of Norwegian coastal life for more than 100 years, delivering freight, post and passengers to remote communities between Bergen in the south and Kirkenes in the north. They’re informal, adventurous journeys, calling at ports inaccessible to other cruise ships. This Arctic adventure begins at the same latitude as Sibe..


Arctic Wonders cruise & Kirkenes Snow Hotel

Winter Holidays from £1419.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

7 nights

This Arctic cruise includes the unique experience of a night at the Kirkenes Snowhotel plus the chance to visit the beautiful Lofoten Islands. It all begins in the unesco-listed city of Bergen, noted for its views of the surrounding hills and fjords. Your first major stop is the delightful art nouveau town of Ålesund, followed the next day by Trondheim, Norway’..


Historic winter mountain magic

Winter Holidays from £995.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

6 nights

De Historiske hotels are not ‘ordinary’ hotels. They are landed estates, country houses, timber-framed buildings in pseudo-Swiss or art nouveau style, old coaching inns and other historic buildings that have been transformed into beautiful, small and romantic hotels, where service is paramount and the food is rooted in Nordic tradition.


Mary-Ann’s Polarrigg, Spitsbergen

Winter Holidays from £960.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 nights

If you want a taste of the real Spitsbergen, then you could do no better than staying at Mary-Ann’s Polarrigg, a former miners’ rig located in the capital, Longyearbyen. The once-basic rooms have been turned into some of the most charming and memorable lodgings on the island, from the basic but comfortable rig rooms to the luxury suite with its king-size ..


Sami Wilderness Camp

Winter Holidays from £1220.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 3 nights

You can’t visit Arctic Norway without meeting and understanding the Sami way of life. They are, after all, a remarkably hardy people who have lived here in the north as nomadic herders for centuries. What better way to taste this lifestyle than by driving your own husky team from just outside of Tromsø to the heart of Lyngen, a wild and untamed terrain where th..


Northern Lights break in Lofoten Islands

Winter Holidays from £1545.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

4 4 nights

Special Departure - 17 and 23 February 2013 for 5 days/4 nights 

In her hit programme Joanna Lumley first saw the northern lights in the Lofoten Islands and National Geographic rated them in the top 3 of ‘most appealing islands in the world’. This special trip focuses on the northern lights, culture, history and nature ..


A ship in the ice Svalbard, Norway

Winter Holidays from £2899.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

4 4 nights

Even in the Arctic where adventures abound, staying aboard the world’s only hotel ship frozen in sea ice, wondering when the next 700-kilo polar bear is going to walk beneath the bowsprit takes some beating. 

But getting there by dogsled, pulled across the snows of Svalbard by a team of Alaskan huskies under your own command ..


Killer Whales and Northern Lights in Norway

Winter Holidays from £1025.00 per person

Tour destination: Norway

3 3 nights

Tysfjord is situated in the heart of a spectacular area with a unique wild life, 120 miles north of Arctic Circle in Northern Norway. The Orca Basecamp has been conducting research on killer whales since 1987. 600-700 orcas spend the winter in the Tysfjord-Lofoten-Vesterålen area every year between October and January making this one of the best places to observe the..


Our top Winter Holidays

The below itineraries show a sample of Sweden Winter Holidays. If nothing takes your fancy then please call one of Scandinavian experts on 020 7838 5956

Winter wedding at Ice Hotel Sweden

From £1895.00 pp for 3 nights

Couples from all across the world come to get married at Sweden’s celebrated Ice Hotel. Every year a new hotel is built from blocks of ice cut from the Torne River, just to melt away again in the warmth of spring. Perhaps it’s the transience of the building that makes the experience so special. When no architectural memento exists, the memories from the d..


Classic Ice Hotel break

From £820.00 pp for 3 nights

A Masterpiece of Ice and Snow which just has to be seen to be believed !

Every winter, a new Ice Hotel is built, and thousands of guests spend a night between Ice Hotel’s glittering walls in northern Sweden. You sleep on an ice bed of warm insulating reindeer hides in an ultra-warm sleeping bag that is provided by Ice Hotel.<..


Arctic rally driving in Sweden

From £2669.00 pp for 2 nights

Ever wanted to try out your driving skills on ice in high performance car? Why not try a once in a lifetime experience rallying around a frozen lake.

Arjeplog in Swedish Lapland is the car testing capital of the world where many car manufacturers test their cars on frozen lakes, including Porsche. The area is not only known for car..


Ice Hotel and Stockholm, Sweden

From £870.00 pp for 3 nights

A cool capital and a masterpiece of ice and snow!

Start your arctic adventure by staying one night in Stockholm at design hotel Sign. There is no better way to start your holiday than soaking up in a roof top spa and admiring incredible panoramic views over wintry Stockholm.

Stockholm is the scen..


Björn to be wild

From £1690.00 pp for 3 nights

Action packed Ice Hotel break

Break the mould on this four day adventure combining a night at the famous Ice Hotel and exciting ice rally and Northern Lights snowmobiling. This action packed winter break is guaranteed to keep circulation going


Stockholm & Copperhill Mountain Lodge

From £995.00 pp for 4 nights

Enjoy a luxury winter break in Sweden combining Stockholm and Are.

Alpine destination Are is of top international class and is one of the Nordic region’s most frequented holiday destinations. It is the only ski resort in Sweden with a genuine Alpine atmosphere. The range of pistes covers everything from advanced skiing on dem..


Honeymoon at Copperhill Mountain Lodge

From £1170.00 pp for 5 nights

Enjoy a luxury snowy honeymoon in Sweden combining Stockholm and Are. 

This City & Mountain honeymoon will take you Sweden combining Stockholm and ski resort of Are. You will be staying in luxurious and romantic accommodation on this twin centre break. In Stockholm you will be staying in design hotel Nordic Light, which is one of t..


Treehotel Experience

From £925.00 pp for 2 nights

From Ikea to the ICEHOTEL, Scandinavia has long led the way in design and innovation and the Treehotel in Swedish Lapland is no exception. This high-design, back-to-nature retreat allows you to immerse yourself in nature while you marvel at some of the hotel world’s most astonishing pieces of architecture.

Set just outside th..


Inlandsbanan & Jokkmokk winter market

From £1575.00 pp for 7 nights

This independent rail tour will see you journey from Stockholm to Sweden’s northernmost town of Kiruna, 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Travelling for the most part on the terrific Inlandsbanan, Sweden’s 1,300km inland railway, and staying in hotels and ski chalets along the way, you’ll get to attend perhaps the biggest event in Lapland, the 40..


Björkliden and Laktatjakko Mountain Station

From £1105.00 pp for 4 4 nights

Up in the mountains, 250km north of the Arctic Circle, lies Sweden’s highest mountain lodge, Laktatjakko, offering ten simple rooms, a wood-panelled bar, sauna, hearty country cooking and direct access to world-beating hiking and ski trails. Arriving by snowcat – which ploughs through the snow on tank-like tracks – for a night at Laktatjakko is just..


Lapland Long Weekend in Sweden

From £1390.00 pp for 4 4 nights

Discover Sweden’s winter wonderland on this long weekend in Lapland. Get up close and personal with the country’s unique wildlife, ride Icelandic horses through the grazing lands of moose, learn how to drive your own reindeer sled, see the world famous ICEHOTEL and travel by dogsled through a frozen river valley.

With a..


TreeHotel and Lulea Experience

From £695.00 pp for 3 nights

Scandinavia comes into it’s own in winter and no truer word can be said of Swedish Lapland which is transformed during the winter months into an arctic wilderness with a magical landscape.

The real appeal of Lulea lies in its location on the Gulf of Bothnia. Surrounded by an archipelago of more than 1000 islands, which in the..






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