The Rovaniemi guide association has been offering guided tours for tourists in Rovaniemi and its surroundings since 1972. Our authorized tourist guides are experts on our local culture, on history, heritage and on relevant cultural sights. Our tourist guides offer guided bus tours in and around Rovaniemi and inform visitors about the city’s environment, its past and about present developments. We’d like to welcome your clients to our beautiful city!

Languages

Available languages for guidance are: English, Finnish, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Korean & Dutch.

Group size

For city walks: One guide can guide a group of maximum 30 persons. However, clients get more out of a guided tour in smaller groups, the ideal group size in our opinion is 15 persons. Therefore, we recommend ordering two guides for groups of approximately 30 persons.

For bus guiding: there is no limit to the amount of participants when clients have a bus guided tour. However, bear in mind the bigger a group is, the slower a group moves f.e. from the accommodation or venue into the bus.

Rates

Rovaniemi Guide Association Guidance rates summer 2025 & winter 2025-2026. Rates are valid from 15.04.2025 until 14.04.2026.

Rovaniemi Guide Association Guidance rates summer 2026 & winter 2026-2027. Rates are valid from 15.04.2026 until 14.04.2027.

The Rovaniemi guide association is an association. In practical terms, that means the Rovaniemi guide asssociation is not a company, and does not sell guided tours directly. The booking management of the association connects a tour operator to a certified guide after having received an inquiry. As the Rovaniemi guide association is not a company, the association can not send invoices on behalf of the authorized guides. The booking management of the Rovaniemi guide association will inform the price for the guide fees when a client places an inquiry, but each authorized guide applies an invoicing or billing service on their own means. The rates mentioned here are recommended rates and the final rate is to be agreed with the guide directly.

The guide is obliged to be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the work assignment begins.

Rates do not include entrance fees.

Rates do not include transport costs. In case the guide starts or ends guide work outside Rovaniemi, for example at the Santa Claus Village or Rovaniemi Airport, a fare of 50€ ex. VAT for taxi use and travel time will be added in our offer.

If the guide will assist clients only at the airport, 65€ ex. VAT will be added for the transfers between the city of Rovaniemi and the airport, additionally to our base price of two hours guide work. In case the amount of time it takes to transfer to and from the airport and the work time at the airport exceeds the two hours of work, our guidance fee will be increased accordingly.

In case a guide has to travel to or from another city, for example Kemi or Levi, because the guidance starts or ends elsewhere than Rovaniemi, the rate for travel time is 33€ ex. VAT per hour. Any travel expenses such as tickets for bus or train will be added to the rate for the guidance.

Prices are in euros and valid until further notice. We reserve the right to change our guide fees.

During the night time, between 23:00 – 06:00 the charge for guiding is +100% to the standard fee.

Sunday and public holidays +100% to the standard fee.

List of Public holidays in Finland 2024, 2025 & 2026

2025

21.04.2025 Easter Monday

01.05.2025 May Day

29.05.2025 Ascension Day

20.06.2025 after 18:00 Midsummer Eve

21.06.2025 Midsummer Day

01.11.2025 All Saint’s Day

06.12.2025 Independence Day

24.12.2025 after 18:00 Christmas Eve

25.12.2025 Christmas Day’s evening

26.12.2025 Boxing Day

2026

01.01.2026 New Year’s day

06.01.2026 Epiphany

03.04.2026 Good Friday

06.04.2026 Easter Monday

01.05.2026 May Day

14.05.2026 Ascension Day

19.06.2025 after 18:00 Midsummer Eve

20.06.2026 Midsummer

31.10.2026 All Saint’s Day

24.12.2026 after 18:00 Christmas Eve

25.12.2026 Christmas Day

26.12.2026 Boxing Day

Meal allowances: For tours of 5 hours or longer, when no meal is provided free of charge, the guide is entitled to a meal allowance as follows: until 3 p.m: 20 eur after 3 p.m: 27 eur.

The authorized guide will invoice the client after the guided tour has occurred, unless otherwise stated.The client provides the guide with an invoicing address as soon as the details of the guidance have been accepted.

The Rovaniemi Guide Association will do our utmost to find a suitable replacement as soon as possible, in case a guide is unable to perform a confirmed task.

Cancellation terms

Confirmed orders can be cancelled free of charge minimum 14 days before the start of the guiding in writing.

If the ordered service is cancelled less than 14 but at least 7 business days before the guiding, the fee for 2 hours guiding will be charged as a cancellation fee.

If the cancellation is received in less than 7 business days full fees will be charged.

In case of a no-show full fees will be charged.

For bookings and more information:

Click here to book a guide

Rovaniemi Guides
Guide service

info.rovaniemiguides@gmail.com

Webpage last updated: 29.08.2024