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You land at Kittila airport which is nice and small - you get your bags very soon after landing. Transfer by coach is about 45 minutes.
This was our second stay at the Saaga Hotel so it must have been good to have come back. It is recently built, and has an indoor swimming pool, 2 hot tubs, a private sauna, usual male and female saunas, a gym and you can book various treatments such as a massage - which I did, and it was very good.
Someone told us that Finnish single beds are like double beds - they are not, they are just large single beds, too small for 2 people. The hotel room has 2 twin beds, and a sofa bed which can be a double or a single. The rooms are a good size, and most have balconies too. The bathrooms have a shower in, and a heater to dry your clothes - which is a brilliant idea. The hotel also has a washing machine which can be used by guests.
The staff are friendly and professional. The cleaners do their job - what more can I say? The food - buffet breakfast - various salad stuff, cheese and ham every day, porridge, hard boiled eggs, cereals, yoghurt, fruit, and then cooked stuff - which changed every day. Bacon - cooked in a strange way, not very pleasant, sort of cooked 8 rashers at a time. Different breads, a toaster if you wanted, crisp breads. The coffee tastes a bit strange but you get used to it.
Evening meal was buffet again - salads, soup, and generally 1 meat dish, 1 fish dish, vegetables, potatoes, etc. No children's meals but my 10 year old managed to survive.
You can ski to the door, there is a locker room downstairs where you leave your skis. There is a bus no. 718 to the other side of the mountain where there are more ski slopes). The gondalas which take you up the mountain don't work when it's windy. It's sometimes foggy there too.
What is wrong with it? Well reception area is a bit small, the day you leave you have to put your bags in a small room which is soon overflowing.
I would go there again any day.
I give it a 9 because I would have liked a cheese board at the end of my evening meal, and the bacon wasn't very nice. But I cannot fault the staff.
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