Lapland Uk

This place is a great experience to take your kids to see Santa, However word of warning you need VERY DEEP pockets.
The tickets range between £55 and £79 plus booking fee.
Price includes personalised invitation to every child from Father Christmas by post, child elf passport, all activities, ice skating, personalised meeting with Father Christmas and a Husky toy per child over 12 months. Most visits last approximately 4 hours.
LaplandUK is an immersive theatrical experience for the whole family and thats why adults are charged full price even though they do not take part in any of the activities or receive a gift except those on the premium visit who get a xmas bauble per booking from Santa.
You are asked to arrive 30 mins before your booked session and there are some tables with colouring pencils to sit at and a small kiosk selling drinks and biscuits
very expensive at £4 for a hot chocolate £2 for a mince pie £2 for a small juice carton or small bottle of water.
Your experience starts at the magical forest where you meet the woodland folk. and your tour guide. You are then taken to the toy shop where the kids put together a reindeer and xylophone and get there elf passports stamped and a sticker.
Then on to Mrs Clauses kitchen to decorate a gingerbread and hear a story,
Finally you are allowed free time to ice skate (long queue and soggy socks) and visit the village which actually means lots of places to spend money. You can visit the post office and send letters home at a cost, visit the key maker and purchase a key for Santa to use when he visits,
A kiosk selling drinks and £6 hot dogs. Another shop selling all things Xmassy including baubles, hats, gloves, elve toys and even gorgeous made to order wooden rocking horses for over £1K. There is also a sweet pic and mix. There is a small opening where a man stands with a husky you can visit,
I think there were another 2 shops selling items and then we came to the café.
£12 for pie and mash, £8 for fish finger sandwiched £5 kid meals.
You head over to see Santa at your time slot which seemed to consist of lots of little huts each containing their own santa. At this point there is a sign telling you not to take pictures as you have to purchase theirs.
Once inside they have their chat and 3 pics are taken. Santa gives the child their husky then as you head out you walk past the reindeer. You finally arrive at yet another shop full of clothes for the huskys like at Build a bear. and more gifts then you queue up to see your santa pics which start at £15 per picture.
At this point we only had £10 left so were unable to get a picture which was a huge shame.
So if you intend to visit next yr make sure you leave a minimum of £15 for a picture as you are not told how much the pics are,.at the beginning.
So for a family of four you would need over £100 spending money for food, drinks etc on top of the £300 plus you have spent on tickets.
As i said if money isn’t a problem i would recommend this, otherwise i can definetly recommend breakfast with Santa at your local garden centre for £10 each (which includes a breakfast, chat and nice gift from Santa)