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The Privé Collection 2026 · A Private Experience

Aino Private Island Hotel

A whole private island on a Lapland lake, one contemporary timber lodge in the pines, taken exclusively, with the northern lights in winter and the midnight sun in summer.

An island under the aurora
Lapland, Finland 66° 30.14′ N  /  25° 55.82′ E
Satopia Travel presents A cinematic travel experience In partnership with Aino Private Island
The Island

One island, one lodge, and the whole northern sky.

Aino is a private island on a Lapland lake, reached across the water or the ice, with a single design lodge among the pines. Taken exclusively, the island, the sauna and the shoreline belong to one party.

In winter it sits under the aurora with the lake frozen for skiing and snowmobiling; in the endless light of summer it turns to swimming, paddling and forest quiet. Rovaniemi and the Arctic Circle are half an hour away.

Overview Lapland · Finland
Setting
A whole private island on a Lapland lake
Accommodation
One contemporary timber lodge in the pines
The island
The island and lodge, your party alone
Getting there
About 30 minutes from Rovaniemi, then boat or over the ice
The stay
Stay 3 nights or more, and we plan your whole experience
Satopia experience
Tailor-made for you: aurora, huskies and the sauna, arranged end to end
A private island · 4:5
Enquire

Every experience begins with a single click. Tell us when and with who and we'll design a world around you.

Guests From 2 to 20 guests
2
Nights Minimum 3 nights stay
3
WhatsApp Email Satopia reservations
The Island

Book the island, and the aurora has no audience but your party.

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01 Accommodation

One design lodge, glass to the forest and lake.

The lodge is contemporary timber and glass, several bedrooms, open living, a fire at the centre and a lakeside sauna, all facing the water and the sky. Taken exclusively, it sleeps a family or group.

Floor-to-ceiling glass keeps the aurora, the snow and the light in view from indoors on the coldest nights.

Bedrooms
On confirmation
Sleeps
On confirmation
On the island
Sauna & fire
Use
The whole island
The island lodge · 4:5
02 Culinary

A private chef, and the Arctic larder.

A chef cooks to your party alone: Lapland game, Arctic char, cloudberries and forest herbs, hearty in winter, bright in summer. Meals happen by the fire, on the ice, or out under the light.

There is no menu but yours; a fireside dinner or an ice picnic needs only a word.

On the island
Your private chef
The larder
Game · char · cloudberry
The Arctic table · 4:5
03 Experiences

Aurora, huskies and the frozen lake, or the midnight sun.

Winter is snowmobiles, husky and reindeer sleds, ice fishing and aurora hunts across the lake; summer is swimming, kayaking, foraging and the sun that never sets.

Rovaniemi and the Arctic Circle are close for the days you want them; your designer builds each day to the season and the sky.

In winter
Aurora · huskies · the ice
In summer
Swimming · the midnight sun
Under the northern sky · 4:5
04 Wellness

A lakeside sauna, and the cold for a plunge.

The Finnish sauna is the heart of the island: heat by the water, then a plunge through the ice or into the summer lake, the oldest wellness ritual in the north.

Massage can be arranged in the lodge, but the sauna, the cold and the silence do most of the work.

The sauna
Lakeside, wood-fired
The plunge
Through the ice, or the lake
Sauna & ice · 4:5
05 Service

A private crew, and one designer over the whole stay.

The island runs with its own small team, chef, host, guides, for your party alone: warm, expert and used to the extremes of the Arctic year.

Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds the island, times the transfers and stays one call away throughout.

On the island
Your private team
Behind it
One Satopia travel designer
Quiet hospitality · 4:5
06 Setting

Lapland: the Arctic, at its most private.

Finnish Lapland is forest, lake and tundra under one of the best aurora skies on earth, and mostly empty. Aino has a whole island of it, half an hour from an airport.

To stay is to have the northern sky and a frozen lake entirely to your party.

Around you
Forest, lake & tundra
Reached by
Boat, or over the ice
The Arctic north · 4:5
Moments

The island, in motion.

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Image slot Aurora over a private island.
Image slot Huskies fanning out on the ice.
Image slot Sauna steam at blue hour.
Image slot The lodge glowing in the pines.
Plan your Experience

What's the forecast?

Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the flights, the cars, the guides, the tents held for you alone.

When to go
Best · December – March & June – August · winter for aurora and snow; summer for the midnight sun
-11°
Jan
-10°
Feb
-5°
Mar
1°
Apr
9°
May
17°
Jun
20°
Jul
17°
Aug
10°
Sep
2°
Oct
-5°
Nov
-10°
Dec
Rainfall Snowiest in winter · wettest late summer
Aurora & snow · ideal Midnight sun · long days Rainfall trend
For families

Snow, made magic.

Huskies, snowmobiles and the Arctic Circle, with a whole island to base from.

For two

Aurora, privately.

A glass lodge, a lakeside sauna and the northern lights with no one else watching.

For a gathering

The island, held whole.

A private Arctic island for a milestone winter or a midnight-sun summer.

For the sky

Aurora hunts.

Guided chases across a frozen lake, away from every other light.

Plan your journey

How far is it from you?

Choose where you would set out from. We'll estimate the flight and how much the time change is likely to ask of you.

The Satopia Advantage™

You choose the place.
We'll do all the planning.

We hold the relationship with Aino Private Island, so we can take the island for your party on your dates. From there a single travel designer composes every day around you. You simply arrive.

What we secure

The whole island, and its crew, held for your party and the season. The access a direct booking rarely reaches.

What we arrange

Every day composed by one travel designer: the aurora and the huskies, the sauna and the transfers, present when wanted, unseen when not.

People we bring to you, on request
Aurora & wilderness guides
Husky & sled teams
Private chef & host
Massage therapists
Childminders
Photographers
Satopia Insider

A few things worth knowing.

Drawn from recent guests.

Keep airport transfers short and simple

Arriving from the local airport takes less than twenty minutes, making the transition from travel to tranquillity remarkably seamless. Plan to stay away from the crowded mainland hubs to properly appreciate the quiet river setting. You will find the island location offers a peaceful escape with very little effort required to reach it.

The floating mirror sauna

Make time for the floating mirror sauna for a rare moment on the water. You can swim directly into the river and sample local birch sap drinks between sessions. This unusual setup provides a memorable highlight that stands apart from standard wellness offerings.

Extend your stay

Want to stay a little longer?
We'll plan that too.

Lapland pairs with the wider north. A few we would join to the island, each arranged as one seamless experience.

Image slotHelsinki · 9:16
The gateway

A few days in Helsinki

Bookend the Arctic with the design capital: architecture, saunas and the harbour.

Add to your enquiry
Image slotNorway · 9:16
Next door

The Norwegian Arctic

Add the fjords and Tromsø for whales and a different northern light.

Add to your enquiry
Image slotSwedish Lapland · 9:16
Across the border

Swedish Lapland

The ice hotel and the Kiruna wilderness, a short hop west.

Add to your enquiry
Enquire · The Privé Collection 2026

Every experience begins with a conversation.

Tell us who is coming and your dates. We will shape the rest around you. Nothing is booked yet, and we reply within a day.

01

When would you like to come?

Choose one or more months, or tell us you're flexible on dates.

Ideal season · winter for aurora, summer for the light

02

What's the occasion?

Choose any that apply.

03

An indicative budget?

An estimate of your budget for the whole stay helps us plan your experience. Below is an estimated nightly rate, excluding experience budget, to help you plan.

04

Who shall we reply to?

Included in your experience
  • Breakfast
  • Dinner set menu
  • Use of island services
  • In-suite amenities
  • Daily housekeeping
Arranged separately
  • Lunch
  • Room service
  • Wood-heated sauna with jacuzzi
  • Laundry

Aino Private Island is priced by whole-island buyout, by night and by season. The figures shown are indicative. Once we check live availability we confirm an exact, all-in quote for your dates, and nothing is booked and no payment taken until you approve it in writing. A deposit then secures your dates, with the balance due before arrival. The full booking terms, cancellation policy and any security deposit are set out in your confirmation.

Private & tailor-made · the island, held for you Enquire
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