Those who have small children should go, it's better to fly directly to Rovaniemi, we decided to take a train to Lapland via Helsinki, it turned out to be more expensive, there is nothing to do and see in Helsinki. The whole village of Santa is focused only on pumping money out of tourists, commerce is all around, reindeer riding 5-10 minutes, the deer are tired, battered (in Murmansk it is necessary to visit the Sami village, it is much more interesting and the deer are cooler), you can send a letter with wishes from Santa's mail, we received by next new year👍🥳 And we were lucky to see the Northern Lights👍👍👍
The place is very beautiful, but nowadays it's hard to get there, it's better to have VIP status, so it's easier to cross the border, Santa is great, he knows Russian!