The Arctic Spa Session
An included spa session at Vana Spa, on the seventh floor of your hotel. Children welcome.
You have been outside since nine. Your face is wind-burnt in a stripe where the buff slipped, there is still woodsmoke in your hair, and your hands have that dull ache that comes from being cold for eight hours and pretending otherwise. Then you drop your bag in your room, walk down in a robe, and step out into water that is thirty-eight degrees while the air above it is minus eighteen.
The steam comes off the surface in sheets. Your shoulders let go somewhere around the second minute. Snow sits on the edge of the pool a hand's width from your face, and the only sound is water and your own breathing. People go in intending to stay twenty minutes and come out an hour later, slightly stunned.
Then the contrast: sauna, cold air, back into the warm water. It is an old northern habit and it works, which is why every Swede you meet up here does some version of it. At Elite Hotel Frost you are seven floors up, on a heated terrace with the lights of Kiruna below you and the whole sky above.
Seven floors above Kiruna, and it is already paid for
Every Feel Good Week stays at Elite Hotel Frost, and Vana Spa is on the seventh floor of it. A session is included for every guest, in the building you are already in. You go up in a robe rather than out into the cold.
Warm water and dry heat inside, then the heated terrace and the rooftop when you want the air, with the lights of the town below you. It sits on day two, after the morning behind the huskies, and your host confirms the exact time locally.
- Heated indoor pool
- Heated outdoor terrace with a fireplace
- Rooftop, seven floors up
- Sauna
- Sensory shower
- Steam room
- Hammam
- Spa bar
- Gym
- Inside the hotel itself, no transfer needed
- Robe provided
Signature moment
The rooftop after dark, with the lights of the town below and the whole sky above.
Children
Children are welcome. Vana Spa runs a dedicated children's session, and families are booked into that slot rather than the general one, which is for guests aged 16 and over.
Treatments and massages are separate and can be booked and paid for directly at the spa if you want them.
Photographs of the hotel and spa: Elite Hotel Frost, used with permission.
Why the spa is included, not sold as an extra
Most operators sell a spa entry as an add-on at the end of the booking flow, and most guests skip it because by then they have stopped adding things. We think that is the wrong way round. The spa session is the recovery in the middle of a physically demanding week, so it is built into the price for every guest and placed where it does the most good.
It happens at your own hotel, so there is no transfer, no separate booking and nothing to organise. It sits on day two, after the morning behind the huskies and before that night's aurora chase, with your host confirming the exact time locally. You bring swimwear. That is the entire preparation.
Every guest on the Feel Good Week gets a spa session, included in the price. It is not an add-on and there is nothing extra to pay. It is at Vana Spa, on the seventh floor of Elite Hotel Frost, the hotel you are already staying in. Children are welcome: families are booked into the children's session rather than the general one.
It sits on day two, after the morning behind the huskies and before you head out on that night's aurora chase. Four layers come off, your shoulders drop about an inch, and the cold you have been carrying since breakfast finally leaves your hands. Warm water, dry heat, and cold air on your face at the same time - which is the whole point of a spa this far north.
It is built around polar contrast: heat, then cold air on the terrace, then heat again. It is not a treatment factory. You go in, you stop moving, and you let a long Arctic day settle.
- A spa session included for every guest, in your own hotel - no transfer, no booking, nothing extra to pay
- Children welcome - families use the children's session
- Towels and robes provided by the hotel - bring your own swimwear
- The exact time is set locally by your host during the week, around the activity schedule
- Treatments and massages can be booked and paid for directly at the spa if you want them
- Duration
- Approx. 2 hours, in your own hotel
- Difficulty
- Easy - entirely at your own pace
- Season
- December to March
- Included in the Feel Good Week
The Arctic Spa Session in Kiruna - your questions answered
Yes. Every guest on the Feel Good Week gets a spa session at their own hotel, included in the package price. It is not an optional add-on and there is nothing extra to pay for entry. Treatments and massages are separate and can be booked and paid for directly at the spa if you want them.
Vana Spa, on the seventh floor of Elite Hotel Frost. Every Feel Good Week stays at that hotel, so it is the same spa on every departure. It is in the building you are already staying in - no transfer and no separate booking.
It sits on day two, after the morning behind the huskies, and your host confirms the exact time locally so it lands where it is most useful. Because it is at your own hotel it can be moved around the activity schedule easily, and you can go back in your own time as well if the hotel's opening hours allow.
Your own swimwear. Towels and robes are provided by the hotel. Bring flip flops if you prefer them, though they are not needed. Nothing else - you will already have everything else you need in your room.
On a strong clear night, yes - the heated rooftop terrace at Vana Spa looks out over Kiruna and the sky above it. We never promise the sky, and the spa is not a substitute for the guided aurora chase - it is just a very pleasant place to be if it does appear.
Yes. Children are welcome at Vana Spa: there is a dedicated children's session, and families are booked into that slot rather than the general one, which is for guests aged 16 and over. Tell us the ages in your group when you register your interest so we place you in the right session.
This experience is included in The Feel Good Week, our four-night Kiruna package, along with every transfer and the full winter clothing set. Planning details such as flights, packing and weather are on the practical information page.
Every experience in the Feel Good Week
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