Imagine arriving
at your holiday destination, but as you leave the airport, instead of being
picked up by a minibus or coach, you are greeted by the site of a husky sledge,
to whisk you off across the snow-covered landscape to your hotel.
Well, from Winter
2014, Hurtigruten can make that a reality with the introduction of optional
husky transfers between Kirkenes Airport and the SnowHotel.
On arrival at
Kirkenes airport, customers will be given all the suitable clothing to make the
45 minute journey by husky sledge to the hotel. They needn’t worry about whether
their luggage will fit on the sledge as it will follow by a more common mode of
transport - a mini-bus.
The transfers
will be available to customers flying into Kirkenes for a ‘Classic Voyage
South’, but who are staying overnight at the SnowHotel in Kirkenes for a night
before joining the ship.
Hurtigruten
offer a six day ‘Classic Voyage South’ travelling from Kirkenes to Bergen,
including a night at the SnowHotel and flights from £1,558 per person, departing
from London on a variety of dates in December 2014. The price is based on two
people sharing.
Husky
transfers cost an additional £289 per person, based on two people sharing a
sledge.
Hurtigruten’s ships travel up and down the
coastline of Norway from Bergen in the South to Kirkenes in the North calling at
34 ports along the way, most never visited by the larger cruise liners. There is
no dressing for dinner and no fighting for the Captain’s table – this journey is
about experiencing what this beautiful country has to offer. With excursions ranging from husky sledging and
snowmobiling in the winter to a King crab safari and whale watching in the
Summer, there are a whole host of incredible experiences.
Call Hurtigruten on tel: 020 3582 6642 or visit www.hurtigruten.co.uk.
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