Lapland Hotels Hetta — Hotel in Tunturi-Lapin seutukunta

A nice hotel with good food and very nice staff, especially at the reception. Dogs are especially welcome, which is nice! Just remember the rules for dogs if you cross national borders. The hotel is beautifully located down by the water a little outside the center of the village, about 15 minutes' walk. There is parking for cars on the side of the hotel, in front or on the other side of the road if you have booked a cabin, bungalow. The hotel rooms are of standard size, clean, fresh but not modern renovated. The hotel rooms have no fridge! There are rooms facing the front (road) and facing the water at the back. There is a pub to the right of reception where they sometimes arrange karaoke (play music). The hotel has large social areas and a large restaurant, bar. The hotel is especially nice for conferences/events. We visited the hotel in connection with a conference and stayed in a room or should we say apartment which is on the other side of the road. On this side, each building consists of 2 apartments next to each other but with a protected entrance. Most are the same size, although there are also some larger ones. Our apartment consisted of a hall with plenty of wardrobes. A small kitchen that is fully equipped to be able to cook something with a fridge and freezer. There is a bathroom with a shower and a bedroom with two single beds, a table with 2 chairs and an armchair and a TV. The cabins are not luxurious but perfectly fine, similar to a mountain cabin. There may be a bit of a basement smell because they are exposed to moisture all year round, but nothing that bothered. However, if you are sensitive and have high demands, we recommend the hotel rooms. There are footpaths below the hotel where you can walk along the water or sit down on a bench. Especially nice is to eat in the restaurant and they are famous...

We want to go back! It was brilliant, magical, fun and amazing. We were in the bungalows opposite the hotel. We used sledges to pull the children (aged 7, 9 and 12) to the bungalows across the road. The bungalows were clean and neat they had everything you required. There was a fridge freezer if you wanted to stock up on items from the supermarket down the road. The bungalows were cleaned daily and new towels and bedding were offered. We were booked in for breakfast and evening meal which we went across to the hotel for. The food was good. The hotel was clean. Staff were very approachable and attentive. The TUI representatives were amazing and entertainment in the evening was suitable for the youngsters. The taster sessions on the day after we arrived were brilliant and we were able to sample the reindeer rides, husky sledges and snowmobiles. This enabled us to choose which activities we wanted to do the following day - we chose huskies and we were not disappointed. Although a little expensive, in our opinion it was well worth it to spend a couple of hours with 204 husky dogs and experience driving a sledge pulled by huskies. We stayed at Hetta Hotel for four nights. When you arrive at Killah airport, the service is amazing; you were directed to a large warehouse where you collect your snow suits, boots and socks then take these to your hotel - if things don’t fit and you need to change them there is the facility to do this at the hotel. You give you snow suits back on the last day that you are at the hotel. All in all it is a well functioning machine and we loved it and would go back in a heartbeat. To top it off on the last night the children met with the real Santa, then we went outside and watched a firework display and saw the Northern Lights -...

Have stayed in this hotel every Easter from 1985-1997, and now visited in 2025 again. Almost everything is untouched, but amazingly well kept. Seat upholstery, bathrooms and curtains could do with a refresh, and the new (!) furniture in some areas (sofas in hallways, chairs in entrance) should be replaced. The hallway to the pool also deserves attention. The hotel is sort of an architectural gem, with the showcase beeing a rising car entrance, and a main hall/restaurant/bar that is stepped down to connect to the lake outside. Other curiousities is the use of facetted details in the windows in the restaurant, in the dining chairs, in the rails in chairs, numberplates for rooms, recliner chairs in the shop and in the fireplace. Can only hope the hotel owner in Mounio recognizes this and hires a good furniture carpenter and designer when the refurbishment eventually will start. Often these things are the first to go when a refurbishment starts. Hope they manage to lift Hotel Hetta with use of Finnish elements from Paavo Tynell, Artek and so on, rather than go generic. Today it looks like a scene for a Kaurismaki or Wes Anderson movie, in a good way.

Other than the hotel itself, the staff are great, and the Arctic char served is one of my top 3 served fish dishes of all time. Potatocrisp skin and a beurre blanc dill sauce from another place. Please skip the burger for this gem of a dish. Amazing to find such a kitchen in this tiny tiny village.

The hotel needs a new ventilation system. It was based on supply air to the rooms by vents in the facade. Rather than installing a distributed balanced ventilation system with "reversing fans" in the old vents, they opted for air conditioning units that don't swap the air, so after a night's sleep the...