Kilpisjärvi – Cahkal Hotel
While researching for places to visit in Lapland, you may have come across Kilpisjärvi – a village near the northwesternmost point of Finland, as well as the best place for outdoorsy people to experience phenomena such the midnight sun, polar night, and northern lights. Cahkal hotel, opened in summer 2022, is located in a central place in Kilpisjärvi, nearby the Norwegian border. The hotel offers year-around transportation, accommodation, restaurant, excursions, and relaxation. What else could a person (or a dog!) ask for?
How To Get To Kilpisjärvi
There are many transportation options to get to Kilpisjärvi from abroad. The most popular being flying to Tromsø or Rovaniemi and renting a car, or taking a bus to Kilpisjärvi. I highly recommend reading this blog about winter driving, if you’re unexperienced driving in icy conditions. If you’re a up to a grand Lappish adventure, how about exploring a bit of both, Finland and Norway, while you’re in the north!
Cahkal hotel has excursions to offer in Norway, as well. Either way, Kilpisjärvi is not the place to miss if you’re keen to experience the great outdoors, in addition to ambient warmth and comfort. Keep in mind that especially the holiday season tends to be very busy in Lapland, so it’s recommended to book well in advance!
Experiences To All Senses in Cahkal
High-class but laid-back, is how the owner, Margit Eskonen describes Cahkal hotel. The vision is to have a place where you can make all your Lappish dreams come true by experiencing the outdoorsy excurions in the fells during the day, then coming back to the hotel for after outdoor drinks, relaxing in the sauna with the most magical view, having the most incredible (and well portioned) dinner in the hotel’s restaurant and finishing the night with drinks by the fire and sleeping tight in the upscale rooms – then doing it all again the next day. The restaurant of Cahkal hotel is the kind of place where not only the customers of the hotel want to dine, but also other visitors of the area, as well as by passers. It’s also the kind of place where people go seek comfort and atmosphere during a snowstorm and enjoy the restaurant’s services to make he most out of it. Even sitting in the ambient lobby and having a cup of coffee by the fireplace is a memorable experience, which you’re very welcome to do if you’re just driving by.
Local Ingredients And Co-operations
Kilpisjärvi is a small community where businesses want to support each other every way they can. That’s why Cahkal hotel outsources many of its excursions to other local companies, as well as buys most of their restaurant’s ingredients from local producers. The owners and staff of the hotel love to make everything they can with their own hands, which can be seen in every beautiful detail in the building, dishes and their top-notch customer service. If local, sustainable, ambient, and high-end is what you’re looking for, Cahkal hotel is the place to go – not only for independent travelers, but companies, too!
⇐ By Erika Katainen / Visit Lapland ⇒
