"Igloo Village"

Our hotel offers us the option of sleeping overnight in a real igloo - in what they optimistically call their igloo village. (That's three igloos.)  For the significant extra cost, you get a super warm sleeping bag, separated from the ice and snow by a reindeer skin.  Inside, the igloos are spacious, even cosy (they even have electric power for lighting and a kettle!).   I don't think you're allowed to take in an electric heater, though.  We talked to one couple who had chosen to  sleep there; they said they were comfortable and warm - until they needed the toilet in the night, which meant trekking back through the forest to the main hotel building.  We chose to forgo this pleasure.

The igloos were advertised as a lovely quiet place to sleep.  However, our midnight snowmobile ride through the forest down to the frozen river (in an unsuccessful attempt to see the Northern Lights again) took us past the igloos and, two hours later on our return, past the igloos again. I'm not sure that a team of snowmobiles passing your front door in the small hours counts as quiet.

Despite the absence of the aurora, the snowmobile ride was exciting, and more enjoyable than an earlier visit to a reindeer camp.  We felt this was a tourist targetted sideline by reindeer farmers, including rides on reindeer hauled sleds.  Unlike the huskies yesterday, the reindeer didn't look at all happy - indeed they appeared very tired.  This is an "attraction" that I would avoid another time.