A visit to Lapland is hard to beat as the ultimate family trip

This is a trip tailored for kids, but naturally for the accompanying grand dads, grannies, mums and dads, uncles and aunts too.

As short breaks go, a pre-Christmas package to Lapland is very short, just shy of 36 hours, but given the lack of sleep time and the go-go-go nature of the trip it seems much longer.

This is not a trip for the shopaholic; it’s not a trip for the late night reveller, for stag or hen parties.