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Winter wedding at Sorrisniva Igloo, Norway






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4 nights from £2,395 per person

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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 – you’ll spend all but one night at the Thon Hotel Vica Alta, a converted farm in the old part of Alta, renowned for its friendly service and mouthwatering cuisine. After the ceremony and the obligatory photographs (a photographer can be arranged at additional cost), guests will enjoy aperitifs in the Ice Bar and dinner at the acclaimed Laksestua restaurant. Spend your wedding night in a bridal igloo, waking to a morning sauna, breakfast at Sorrisniva and an exhilarating snowmobile safari.Round off your wedding package with a final night in Alta, soaking in the hotel’s hot tubs, hopefully beneath the swirls of the ethereal Northern Lights.

PRICES & DATES

The price includes return flights via Oslo, all airport taxes, 3 nights at Hotel Vica, breakfasts and dinners of which one is 3 course wedding dinner and aperitif, return transfers from Alta to Sorrisniva Igloo, 1 night at Bridal igloo at Sorrisniva Igloo, wedding at Sorrisniva Igloo (inc. hire of ice chapel and parish fees) and snowmobile safari to Finnmarksvidda. It is possible to book photographer, hair dresser and wedding flowers with an additional cost. You can extend your holiday in Alta or Oslo.

If you have guests joining you, please contact us for guest quotations.

Departures end of January to early April 2012.

ITINERARY

Day 1

Fly to Alta via Oslo with SAS and self transfer to Hotel Vica in Alta for check-in.
Dinner is served in the hotel.

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel. The bridal couple meets the pastor to discuss the wedding ceremony. Rest of the day is free for optional excursions.

Dinner and overnight at Hotel Vica.

Day 3

Your big day! After breakfast there is time to have a hairdresser (if desired).

In the afternoon you’ll be transferred to Alta Igloo Hotel for the wedding. The wedding will take place in the Ice Chapel. After the ceremony there is time for photography (photographer with an extra cost) before enjoying an aperitif in the Ice Bar.

At 7 o’clock the wedding dinner is served in Restaurant Laksestua. The menu can for example be creamy salmon soup, reindeer steak and cloudberry cake.

The wedding couple will spend their wedding night in an ice Bridal suite.

Day 4
Warm up in the sauna and have breakfast at the Igloo hotel

At 10 o’clock you’ll set off for a snowmobile safari on the Finnmarksvidda. Lunch is served en route in the wilderness.

Transfer back to Alta town centre and dinner and overnight at Hotel Vica

Relax in hotel’s Jacuzzi, hopefully under the Northern Lights!

Day 5

Breakfast and self transfer to Alta airport
Fly home via Oslo with SAS.

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Hotel, Activity and Local Information

Sorrisniva Igloo hotel (Alta Igloo)

The temperatures inside the Igloo remain constant between minus 4 and minus 7 degrees centigrade.You will sleep on natural reindeer hide mattresses and special sleeping bags designed to keep you warm in temperatures down to minus 30 degrees centigrade.

The hotel is decorated with superb ice-sculptures and outside in the 'relax area' there are two heated whirlpools where you can sit under the starry skies and hopefully view the Northern Lights overhead.

Vica Hotel

Thon Hotel Vica is the ideal hotel for those who want good personal service in cosy surroundings. Our guests are accommodated in 24 warm and welcoming high-standard rooms, and can enjoy the use of our outdoor relaxing area while looking at the beautiful Altafjord with its surrounding mountains. Relax in hot tubs (hopefully) under the Northern Lights!

 




Activities and Local Information
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• Business class upgrade
• Dog sledge trip
• Dog-sledge trips in the land of the elk with Holmen Hundesenter
• Evening snowmobile safari to Finnmarksvidda & Sami meal
• Northern Lights exhibition at Alta Museum
• Sami Adventures inc. lunch
• Snowmobile safari between mountain inns
• Snowmobile safari up on the mountain plain & Sami lunch
• Taste of Norwegian Lapland

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