Travel facts . . .

Double rooms at Javri Lodge (javri.fi; +358 40 502 0409) start from £1,380 per night full board, including one nature experience per day and use of the in-house swimming pool and saunas. Experiences include snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, husky sledding and ice fishing among other winter activities. Finnair (finnair.com; 0208 0 010101) flies non-stop twice a week (on Thursdays and Sundays) from London Gatwick to Ivalo, the northernmost airport in Finland, from £229 return.