Oivangin Lomakartano

The accommodation was well appointed, clean and very welcoming. We had a 4 bedroom cabin overlooking the lake. Plenty of room for the 6 of us plus a sauna. The cabins are set in the woods and are well away from each other. It was picture postcard perfect. Prior to arrival I had emailed many many questions - all of which were answered. Our principal host Kalle arranged snowmobile safari and husky safari. Both were well organised and very accessible. There is a restaurant on site in which we ate our evening meals. They were single menu items which we had pre booked. The meals were three courses, first and dessert served at the table and the main was a buffet style - good for us as we could choose our quantities- there was also no shortage! We had a problem with our hire car and so caught a cab to the accommodation where Kalle sorted us another car. That saved the day. We were able to access our cabin early and were lucky enough to be able to keep it past our checkout time as they had nobody booked in until the next day. Ruka is approximately 15km away. It is a ski resort with bars and restaurants. I don’t know what the slopes are like as we are not a family of skiers. We accessed the slopes with sledges and had a great time. We found all those running the accommodation very personable and friendly. They couldn’t do enough for us and made our break very special. We are looking to return!