The Arctic Spa Session
An included spa session at your hotel - Aurora Spa at Camp Ripan or Vana Spa at Elite Hotel Frost.
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. On a clear night at Camp Ripan there is a real chance of the aurora appearing while you are lying in the outdoor pool. At Elite Hotel Frost you are seven floors up instead, with the lights of Kiruna below you and the whole sky above.
Two spas, one of them yours for the week
Which one you visit follows the hotel your departure week is at, so it is not a free choice. Both are included in the Feel Good Week.
Vana Spa
At Elite Hotel Frost
A spa on the upper floors of the hotel, so you go up in a robe rather than out into the cold. Warm water and dry heat inside, then the terrace and the rooftop when you want the air, with Kiruna laid out below you.
- Pool
- Rooftop
- Outdoor terrace
- Spa bar
- Sauna
- Sensory shower
- Steam room
- Gym
- Hammam
- 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.
Minimum age 16.
Aurora Spa
At Camp Ripan
A spa built into the side of the hill, with the water outdoors and the snow left where it falls. You move between heat and cold at your own pace, and on a clear night the sky above the outdoor pool is doing the same thing it does out on the aurora chase.
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
- Fjällbacken, the stone and water passage on the way to the saunas
- Mineral sauna
- Outdoor ice bath
- Hammam
- Face and body treatments using their own herbs
- Outdoor sauna
- Relaxation area, a separate space of its own
- Robe provided
Signature moment
Lying in the outdoor pool with snow on the rim, thirty-eight degrees in the water and well below zero on your face.
Treatments can be booked and paid for directly at the spa if you want them.
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. Which of the two spas you visit simply follows the hotel your departure week is at: Aurora Spa if you are at Camp Ripan, Vana Spa if you are at Elite Hotel Frost.
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.
Both spas are built around polar contrast: heat, then snow, then heat again. Neither is a treatment factory. You go in, you stop moving, and you let a long Arctic day settle.
- A spa session included for every guest, at your own hotel - no transfer, no booking, nothing extra to pay
- Which spa you visit follows the hotel your departure week is at, it is not a free choice
- 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, at 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.
It follows the hotel your departure week is at, so it is not a free choice. Weeks at Camp Ripan visit Aurora Spa, which is on the same site as your cabin. Weeks at Elite Hotel Frost visit Vana Spa on the seventh floor of the hotel. Either way 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.
At Aurora Spa at Camp Ripan there is a genuine chance, because the outdoor pool and outdoor sauna sit under open sky away from the town centre. At Vana Spa the heated rooftop terrace looks out over Kiruna, so it happens there too on a strong clear night. 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.
Vana Spa at Elite Hotel Frost has a minimum age of 16. Aurora Spa at Camp Ripan is more family friendly, though some areas have their own rules. If you are travelling with children, tell us when you register your interest and we will confirm exactly what applies to your week.
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
The Arctic is waiting.
Four nights in Kiruna, arranged end to end. You only book your flights.
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