Lentiira, Finland
Kostamustie 5644
N/A
+358 405469008
No wheelchair-accessible entrance
We did see bears. I was also surprised to be asked for more money on arrival. 120, 2X 60 advertised on their website as a basic package does not include any form of bear sightings. It’s either a little tricky website, or a translation error that needs to urgently be corrected. The financial break down as I understand it now, is as follows (happy to be corrected) 149 per person for a night in the bear huts, where you can view the bears. There is a slightly cheaper option, though this seems to be best value. Additional costs, 25 each for dinner and 10 each for breakfast. The 60 per person is for a room at the lodge to rest and shower in post bear watching, or to stay in if you don’t need to see the bears, but then who would come here to not see the bears. The bear huts are very very basic, and the pack lunch simple. I would say the product is 2 star and the experience 5 star. Slightly frustrating. It would be so easy to make it a full 5 star experience.
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Extremely wild experience with many Brown Bears and Wolverine at close range. Good food, helpful and friendly people, it all put into a fantastic setting in the Finnish taiga. Can't be better
A GREAT EXPERIENCE! It was better than I had expected. The room was nice and the food was very good. The hides was way more comfortable than I had expected
If I could give 0 stars, I would. I was charged 180 euros for litteraly nothing! I was so excited to see the bears and when we got there the mood changed pretty quickly... We booked the accommodation package via the homepage and paid right away. We read everything and on this side for the accommodation package were informations about the hides, the agenda (when we go to the hides to see the bears and when we'll go back to have breakfast). Even though we didn't want the breakfast it was a nice to have and we booked it. So we drove 500km to the wild brown bear oy and when we got there the staff told us we needed to pay 150e extra per person to see the bears. Since we're students and the 180 euros were already much for us, we said that we could not afford it and that we need another solution. The staff became unfriendly right away and refused to call the manager, since he wouldn't talk to us anyway. Another couple arrived and had the exact same problem. So we thought the manager should see that it maybe at least also his fault due misleading information on the homepage . After 1 hour of discussion with the staff the manager walked by and when we tried to talk to him he almost ran away and ignored us! When we followed him he was also rude and to be honest I've never been treated this disrespectful in my life! He refused to give us our money back, not even a part of it. He always talked about corona and that times are hard but is that a reason to deprive us of our money?! End of story: we were yelled at, called stupid, did not see any bears, drove back 500 km and were charged 180 euros for that.... DON'T RECOMMEND IT! WAY TO EXPENSIVE! There is another bear watching company in Finland, so if you want so see bears for a fair price go there! And to the manager: Thank you for nothing...
Had an amazing time here for two nights, we got to see bears, foxes and wolverines! Magical
A place with dedicated people, terrific service and delivers what they promise.
Great place to see and photograph brown bear in the wild. Visited twice in 2013 and I will return.
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