Five long-stay Lapland properties for week-plus rentals, Arctic TreeHouse suites, Levi penthouses, Ounasvaara chalets, Pyhä cabins and Lake Inari villas.
The right answer for repeat visitors, remote workers, families and anyone whose Lapland trip is longer than three nights. Weekly rates, private saunas, real kitchens, from design suites to ski-in apartments.
Five properties cross-checked with on-the-ground partners and weekly-rate calendars across the 2025/26 season.
The weekly discount lives in the booking system once you select 7+ nights. It is not always shown on the headline nightly price. Peak weeks around Christmas book out months ahead; mid-November and late April open up far cheaper.
The brief was to disappear into the ridge. Use timber that came from the property, glass facing only north, and never raise the roofline above the tree line. What you see is what was already there, we just made it possible to live inside it.
From ski-in apartments to lakeside villas.
Each of the four below has a different long-stay rationale, proximity to a lift system, work-from-Lapland weekday infrastructure, family-friendly kitchen, or culturally rich lake-side base.
The price drops faster than people expect.
Across the properties on this page, the weekly rate is on average 23% cheaper per night than the headline nightly rate. Levi Residences drops 30%, Pyhä Bear’s Lodge drops 18%, Arctic TreeHouse drops 25%. Most properties don’t advertise this, the discount lives in the booking system once you select 7+ nights.
The shoulder weeks, mid-November (right before snow stabilises) and late April (right after the snow melts), drop a further 30–50% on top. Aurora is still active in both windows. This is the sweet spot for long stays with a flexible work calendar.
For a 4-week stay, splitting it across two properties can beat a single-property booking, you avoid the “peak week” spikes around Christmas and the February ski holidays, and you actually see two parts of Lapland. The transfer day takes half a day; the money saved usually pays for two extra nights elsewhere.
For a 2–3 night first trip, skip long-stay rentals. The check-in, grocery shopping and learning-the-stove tax wipes out the savings. Book a hotel instead.
For a single bucket-list aurora night, glass igloos are the better answer. The roof of glass is the experience you came for; a long-stay cabin gives you a window.
For mixed-mobility groups, call the property directly before booking, most long-stay cabins are not step-free and the saunas in particular sit in the basement on a wood floor.
The Arctic TreeHouse Resort is the answer when the question is “how do I do a proper long stay in Rovaniemi without renting a raw cabin?” Design suites built into the pine forest at the edge of Santa Park, each with a kitchenette and a panoramic glass front facing the trees.
The weekly rate drops about 25% from the nightly rate, and every suite has access to the resort sauna village, so a week here costs less per night than a string of one-night bookings, with far more room to actually settle in.
It is also the most flexible base in this list: Rovaniemi’s airport, restaurants and design culture are ten minutes away, while the suite itself faces nothing but forest. The “Check rates” button below routes you straight to the weekly inventory.