Northern Lights Yacht Cruise

Convenient to the marina for whales and northern lights

Met all our requirements, close to the marina. Good in room amenities and friendly, helpful staff as expected. Bonus is really nice public space on the ground floor which are very comfortable to hang out on after checkout and a good bar/restaurant in the hotel. It’s a short walk to downtown, if you have time to do that. Also, it’s convenient to the Flybus stop.

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Northern Lights cruise

The tour guide was very helpful with getting phone settings prepared to take pictures and was exceptional with identifying aurora and where to focus on taking pictures. A wonderful experience!

Response from the operator: Thank you so much, I am so pleased you got to see it :)

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Northern light cruise

If the weather saying snow and cloudy 4 hours before your trip starts.. cancel it.get your money back...if it don't happen you get nothing

Response from the operator: I´m sorry we didn´t get to show you the Northern Lights, when that happens we give you 3years of free tours - to come as many times as you need to until you see the lights. The weather here is famously changeable, it can go from snow to sun in 4minutes, let alone 4 hours. There have been many nights we have left the harbour in snow and then the winds high up have blown the clouds away half an hour later! Conversely people have been annoyed we have cancelled tours when we had great weather during the day, only for us to be proved correct and a blizzard blowing in later that evening. We use both our years of experience and the weather forecasts here to make an educated guess on the sky conditions but we can´t always be right. Seeing the Northern lights often comes down to luck, we need clear areas of sky and also for the lights to be strong enough to be seen by the naked eye. They, like the weather, come from mother nature and our outside our control. We hope you get to come and try again one day.

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It's was okay. A lovely...

It's was okay. A lovely boat and friendly staff however near the city where there was a lot of light. We have had other northern lights tours which were much better because the guides chase the clear sky.

Response from the operator: Thanks for taking the time to review us and thanks for saying nice things about our boat and crew :) We go to an area far enough away from the city that the lights don´t really affect our ability to see the northern lights, we´ve so many amazing photos to prove it. Like you said buses can go further in the same time, but waiting for the northern lights is a long, cold process. We prefer being on a yacht with heating, bathrooms, a bar, and doing a boat trip is always fun anyway. We like to wait in a nice environment until we call everyone out to see the lights. On buses you are just on a bus, then you are standing in a cold carpark. It really depends on how people want to spend their evening as a whole. But it sounds like you got to see the lights on both tours so I´m thrilled for you :)

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White out! Don’t worry! Beautiful display!

Great Experience! Started with dinner at Old Harbor. It was snowing like crazy when we left the dock. The woman leading the trip, told us not to be concerned. The weather changes by the minute. Well it did. It cleared around 10pm and we got a beautiful show.

Response from the operator: Oh how wonderful, I am so pleased you got to see them. Forecasting weather is really tricky here, as it changes so quickly, and especially when it´s snowing it can feel like we are going out on a fools errand, but so often the strong winds high up open up the sky for us like this. Thank you for this wnderful review :)

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